Capabilities:
Seakeeping / Motion Analysis | Services: Seakeeping and motion analyses for boats, ships and fixed platforms. | Seakeeping Capabilities |
Mooring Design and Analysis | Services: Analyze complex mooring systems, predicting loads and motions, calculating fatigue lifetime. Designing complete mooring systems. | Mooring Capabilities |
Aquaculture Services | Services: Structural and dynamic motion analyses for new and existing finfish, shellfish and kelp aquaculture facilities. | Aquaculture Capabilities |
Renewable Energy | Services: Analyze power output, maximum structural loads, mooring loads of wave, tidal and current energy systems. | Renewable Energy Capabilities |
Floating Wind Energy | Services: Analyze complete floating offshore wind turbine systems including coupled motions and dynamic loads. | FOWT Capabilities |
Oil & Gas | Services: Analyze motions of platforms in seaway, relative motions between boats and platforms, mooring loads, umbilical motions |
Technical Notes:
Topic | Description | Link |
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Floating Offshore Wind Turbines | Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Fatigue Design Methodologies Applicable to Complex Fixed and Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, Project Document No: E13PC00019 | Final Report |
By-Catch Reduction | Simulated entanglement of leatherback turtle in mooring line using MSC Adams | PPT Presentation |
Healy Wave Energy Converter | Healy Wave Energy, LLC is developing a wave energy converter designed for reliability, safety, and economical power production for island and coastal communities. MMC developed a custom model that coupled the two-body hydrodynamics of the device with the pneumatics of the novel PTO. MMC also incorporated nonlinear, large-displacement mooring dynamics to evaluate the system’s response to extreme storms. | The Healy Wave Energy Converter |
Presentations:
Why Good Mooring Systems Go Bad | Webinar presentation to Maine Ocean & Wind Industry Initiative (MOWII), July 16, 2014 | MOWII Presentation |
Animations and Videos:
Maine Marine Composites YouTube Channel | |
MMC YouTube Channel (archive) |