New Developments

Next Release SAGE Profile 3D v2.0 - Release end 2008

New features in the V2.0 Engine:

• Advanced Boundary Conditions, apply a fixity, one sided fixity, a spring or a single displacement in any Degree Of Freedom at node. Allows to easily introduce Flow Line End Terminations and Inline Tee Assemblies into your model,
• Quasi Static Loading, advanced load control ensures that loads are applied in a quasi static manner,
• Nodal Value Logging: all output parameters currently available in the viewer can now also be logged vs. time during an analysis. Allows to easily produce e.g. force displacement curves,
• XSPIM: the External Soil Pipe Interaction Module is an API that allows in-house soil models to be used in SAGE Profile 3D,
• Non linear bending: elastic piece-wise linear stress/strain and moment/curvature relastions can be defined (besides the existing Ramberg Osgood curves),
• Definition of pressure profiles,
• Hydrodynamic Force definition, define your currents in terms of height above seabed, direction and magnitude and the corresponding drag force is automatically applied to the pipeline,
• Fixed Camera View Point, position the camera anywhere in space and monitor the evolution of a buckle, span, etc. during the analysis,
• Mass scaling, factor the response of the model (i.e. the accelerations) to allow to use a bigger time step and run the simulation in less time.

New features in the V2.0 Interface:

• Code & Span checks:
  • Implementation of the following new code checks:
    • API RF 11.11, including the ASME31.4 and ASME31.8 checks,
    • PD 8010,
  • Major update of DNV OS F101 code check:
    • User can now define more safety factors manually,
    • A waterfilled code check is now allowed,
  • Update of the DNV RP-F105 rules to the February 2006 issue,
• SAGE Profile Editor:
  • Possibility of creating contour and seabed gradient maps as overlays on the terrain,
  • Full 3D visualisation of the terrain,
  • Improved routing tools that allow measuring of distances and angles,
  • Improved importing/exporting of pipeline routes,
  • Seabed profiles can be saved and used as 2D seabeds,
• Main Interface & Analysis Type window:
  • Completely redesigned Analysis Type window,
  • Tree view is used to graphically present all analyses and how they dependency on others,
  • One click re-run of an existing analysis,
• Advanced Viewer:
  • Improved graphing controls allowing a secondary Y-axis,
• Many other incremental improvements indicated to us by our AMTS users.

Current version: SAGE Profile 3D v1.2.11