ABS and Lloyds Register’s (LR) joint venture company Common Structural Rules Software (CSR Software) released new software tools for meeting the requirements of the IACS Common Structural Rules (CSR), which were put into effect on 1 July 2015.
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Developed from the technical strengths of ABS and LR, version 2.5 of the CSR Prescriptive Analysis and the new CSR Finite Element (FE) Analysis software allow assessment of whole vessel structures, including new bulk carrier and oil tanker designs. Both class societies will use these new tools to evaluate new designs to the CSR.
“This software constitutes a new industry standard,” ABS chairman, president and CEO Christopher J. Wiernicki said. “In our collaboration as two of the world’s leading class societies, we continue to achieve our primary objective to enable the advancement of the maritime industry through reliable and dependable software applications.”
The CSR Prescriptive Analysis software requires only that the user input the appropriate data. All of the outputs are clear, straightforward and easy to read. A summary report provides required and offered scantlings with graphic representation of any deficiencies. An intermediate report summarizes dominate criteria for each structure, and a detailed report provides data for every parameter value. In conjunction with CSR Finite Element (FE) Analysis, this complete tool makes verifying compliance with CSR possible with minimal effort.
The software has quickly become popular with users. Nearly 500 licenses were issued prior to the production release.
“I am pleased that the strategy laid out more than a decade ago is achieving our objectives,” LR marine director Tom Boardley said. “Following the development of the CSR in 2005, LR and ABS quickly realized that only common software would support the industry desire for common scantlings, and our CSR Software tools had become widely used. With the introduction of the new Common Structural Rules, we have developed a completely new generation of CSR software that will enable shipbuilders and shipowners to easily and consistently address the requirements of the new IACS Rules.”
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