FEA helps improve the design and accuracy of TLS offshore containers by simulating hazardous or destructive load conditions and failure modes, allowing engineers to understand the physical response of the system.
Here are some of the advantages that FEA brings
- Improved accuracy as any physical stresses that may affect the design is analyzed.
- Improved designs as developers can observe how stresses within one element will affect the material in another connected element.
- Early testing during the development process. Virtual prototyping allows designers to model a variety of designs and materials in a matter of hours, rather than the days or weeks required to produce hard prototypes.
- Increased productivity and revenue as FEA software allows developers to produce higher quality products in a shorter design cycle while using fewer materials.
- Enhanced insight into key design parameters due to the ability to model the interior and exterior of a design. This enables designers to determine how critical factors affect the entire structure, as well as the cause and location of possible failures.
- Optimized use of models, as one common model, can be used to test multiple failure modes or physical events
- Fast calculation times and relatively low investment costs.
- Access to existing experimental results, which can be extracted from the parametric analysis of the validated model and applied to the new model
In summary, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) plays a crucial role in improving the design and accuracy of TLS temporary refuge (TR) shelter and blast resistant unit by simulating hazardous load conditions and failure modes.
