GL ShipLoad

What GL ShipLoad offers
Loads on the structure result from acceleration of masses (inertial loads) and from external loads (mainly pressures). GL ShipLoad provides support in modelling the mass distribution of ship and cargo, and for computing static and hydrodynamic pressures due to waves. Both types of loads are combined to yield balanced quasi-static load cases. To find the most relevant regular waves, GL ShipLoad analyses numerous wave situations. Thanks to an easy-to-use mechanism for defining selection criteria, the user can specify which design waves are to be chosen for the global strength analysis. The outcome is a small number of balanced load cases that are sufficient for dimensioning the hull structure.

Why GL ShipLoad is so efficient
GL ShipLoad can easily be applied in a typical design environment, e.g. a shipyard, since it only requires a global FE model of the ship as input. What's more, its output consists of nodal forces that can be applied in any standard FE program. Realistic loads are applied by performing a first-principle, non-linear seakeeping analysis.

Input of the mass distribution of the ship, e.g. tanks and containers, is made comfortable from the ship designer's point of view. Tanks or other enclosed volumes in the FE model are found automatically by GL ShipLoad. Input of containers is done in the standard bay-row-tier system with graphical feedback. By combining mass distributions, different loading conditions of a ship can be examined very efficiently.

Easy to use, fast to apply
GL ShipLoad is an efficient software tool that convinces with clear layout, the re-use of data from other programs and the handy copy and paste functions. Results are reproducible in line with the GL Guideline for Global FE Analysis and are assessable by graphical feedback.