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Overview of the MAESTRO System
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Historical Highlights
Early Stages of Development and Fielding
Professor Owen Hughes conceived and developed MAESTRO Wrote and published (Wylie/SNAME) textbook Ship Structural Design 1982 1983 Began moving MAESTRO into user community
Initial Cycle of Distribution, 1983 1989

Navies: United States, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom Commercial design organizations
Middle Period of Distribution, 1990 - 1999

Navies total of 16 including Canada, Australia, Germany Ship Classification Societies American Bureau of Shipping, Lloyds Register, Bureau Veritas, China Class, Croatian Register of Shipping Commercial User Base expanded to 40-50 companies University Licenses 20+ universities worldwide
Recent Highlights, 2000 - 2010

Continued distribution throughout commercial industry Established links with Professor Jeom Paik and ALPS limit states analyses Expanded to handle larger models, faster, with improved solvers
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What is MAESTRO?
Beam
Coarse Mesh Full-Ship
Detail Full-Ship
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Rationally-based Structural Design

design directly and entirely based on structural theory and computer-based methods of structural analysis and optimization to achieve an optimum structure based on a designer-selected measure of merit. A true design process must be capable of accepting an objective, of actively moving towards it, and of achieving it to the fullest extent possible.
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Main Capabilities MAESTRO is a complete ship structural design system.

Global Design Analysis
Rapid Structural Modeling Ship-based Loading Finite Element Analysis Structural Failure Evaluation Structural Scantling Optimization Hull Girder Ultimate Strength Natural Frequency Corrosion
Local Design Analysis

Integrated Coarse Mesh/Fine mesh Analysis 3rd Party Import/Export Automated Global BCs Hydrodynamic Load Interface Import/Export Nastran Data Geometry Import
3rd Party Data Exchange
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Structural Modeling
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Ship hull consists of a series of segments: cargo holds, compartments FEMs are large and complex, and construction should be done in a carefully planned levels and sequences Modules are helpful as they are ideal high-level building blocks
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The MAESTRO Module
Modeling Components
Reference/Opposite Ends Section Spacing/Number Endpoints Frames, Girders, & Strakes Stiffener Layout/Spacing
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Ship Hull Girder Properties

Basic Ship Structural Properties Hull girder properties, e.g. Inertias, Cross-sectional Area, Neutral Axis, Section Modulus, etc., can be recovered from the model. Longitudinal Effectiveness On/Off
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Ship Based Loading

Lightship mass distribution
Structural weight Weight distribution
Hydrostatic Loads
Still water Waves
Tank Loads External bending moment and shear force Cargo Masses
Forces Moments
Accelerations (6 d.o.f.) Pressure Loads Mass/Inertia Based Loads Hydrodynamic Loads

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Finite Element Analysis

Obtain the stresses throughout the model for all defined load cases.
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Structural Failure Evaluation (Limit States)
Evaluate the entire ship for all of the different possible failure modes for each load case.
Evaluation Types
MAESTRO ALPS/ULSAP ALPS/HULL
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Structural Failure Evaluation (Limit States) Limit State Analysis

The formulation of MAESTROs limit states is covered in Ship Structural Analysis and Design and Ultimate Limit State Design of Steel-Plated Structures These constitute the theoretical manual for MAESTROs limit state
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Evaluation is automatic - all structural members are evaluated to the factors of safety chosen by the user Different factors of safety can be specified for all collapse limit states and for all serviceability limit states, or specified on a limit state-by-limit state basis. In addition to the strakes, frames, and girders which receive full evaluation...
Additional panels, triangles, and additional beams receive limited evaluation Struts and pillars are evaluated for Euler buckling
Evaluation Patches
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MAESTRO Adequacy Parameters
ALPS/ULSAP Adequacy Parameters
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Automatic Evaluation Patch (Panel) Generation A patch is a collection of elements with its boundary supported by bulkheads or beams.
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Collects plate and beam elements Automatic (or Manual) Evaluation Patch Generation Represents the stiffened panels and correct panel parameters
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Hull Girder Ultimate Strength
ALPS/HULL, 2D (available now) ALPS/HULL, 3D (near term implementation)
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Optimization

Uses sequential linear programing (SLIP2) Optimization eliminates any structural inadequacies While achieving user-specified objectives

Cost Units
Least Weight Least Cost Weighted combination
Rationally-based Design Process (Optimization)

Iterates structure through design cycles to revise scantlings Re-runs the finite element analysis Re-evaluates the structural adequacy of each member for all failure modes and load cases Process continues unit the structure has converged to an optimum design that has no structural inadequacies
Cycles
SLIP2 is able to solve problems involving a large number of constraints of various types and in which the objective may be any user-specified non-linear function of the design variables.
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Rationally-based Structural Design
CONSTRUCTION OF THE FINITE ELEMENT MODEL SPECIFICATION OF LOADS, LOAD PARAMETERS, AND DESIGN WAVES FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS Calculate Load Effect (Q) LIMIT STATE ANALYSIS Calculate Limit Values of Load Effects (QL) FORMULATE CONSTRAINTS
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OPTIMIZATION OBJECTIVE
g 1 g 2 g 3 Q QL
DESIGN EVALUATION Constraints satisfied? Objectives achieved?
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Fine Mesh Analysis
Fully integrated fine mesh modeling and analysis capability. Ability to import FEMAP/NASTRAN detailed models.
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Fine Mesh Analysis

MAESTRO Embedded Analysis
Integrated local models into the global model through Rspline elements Solve coarse mesh model and fine mesh models
MAESTRO Top-Down Analysis

Multiple models in a region (1) solve coarse mesh model, (2) impose coarse mesh model nodal displacements as boundary conditions, (3) solve fine mesh models
3rd Party Top-Down Analysis

Export fine mesh models with boundary conditions
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Natural Frequency Analysis

Perform a natural frequency analysis with or without added mass
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Corrosion
Corrosion is defined as an additive property to the original structure Associated via a Load Case Net thickness is automatically used in FEA and Limit State Analysis
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Hydrodynamic Code Interface, such as PreCal, Wamit, VERES, Lamp, Mora, etc.
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Import/Export Nastran Data
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MAESTRO Benefits
Easy to create, modify, and maintain coarse mesh model Ship based loading Tanks Hydrostatics Hydrodynamic Interface Structural Panel Evaluation Paradigm Integrated & Switchable Structural Criteria Coarse mesh / Fine mesh coexistence
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Contact US
DRS Defense Solutions, LLC Advanced Marine Technology Center (AMTC) Stevensville, MD 21666 Phone: 410-604-8006 Fax: 410-643-5370 Email: support@maestromarine.com Web: www.maestromarine.com
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Overview of the MAESTRO System

Initial Cycle of Distribution, 1983 1989

Middle Period of Distribution, 1990 - 1999

Recent Highlights, 2000 - 2010

Coarse Mesh Full-Ship

Rationally-based Structural Design

MAESTRO Academic Conference 2010

Main Capabilities MAESTRO is a complete ship structural design system.

Local Design Analysis

3rd Party Data Exchange

The MAESTRO Module

Ship Hull Girder Properties

Ship Based Loading

Accelerations (6 d.o.f.) Pressure Loads Mass/Inertia Based Loads Hydrodynamic Loads

Finite Element Analysis

Structural Failure Evaluation (Limit States)

Structural Failure Evaluation (Limit States) Limit State Analysis

Structural Failure Evaluation (Limit States)

Structural Failure Evaluation (Limit States)

Structural Failure Evaluation (Limit States)

Structural Failure Evaluation (Limit States)

Hull Girder Ultimate Strength

ALPS/HULL, 2D (available now) ALPS/HULL, 3D (near term implementation)

Least Weight Least Cost Weighted combination

Rationally-based Design Process (Optimization)

MAESTRO Academic Conference 2010

Rationally-based Structural Design

DESIGN EVALUATION Constraints satisfied? Objectives achieved?

Fine Mesh Analysis

Fine Mesh Analysis

MAESTRO Top-Down Analysis

3rd Party Top-Down Analysis

Natural Frequency Analysis

3rd Party Data Exchange

3rd Party Data Exchange

Import/Export Nastran Data

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