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OrcaFlex 11.4

OrcaFlex is a general purpose dynamic analysis software program suitable for a wide range of global dynamic analysis applications. Its user interface, functionality, productivity features, wide range of applications, along with very active program development and technical support, make it the leading option in its peer group. OrcaFlex’s generality, power and flexibility means that a wide range of systems can be modelled, and it is routinely used in the analysis of the following applications:

Analyses:

  • Extremely quick and robust static analysis
  • Nonlinear Time Domain (implicit & explicit)
  • Linear Frequency Domain (1st & 2nd order)
  • Fully coupled vessel – line analysis
  • Extreme value statistics
  • Modal, VIV, clearance and Interference analysis
  • Regular, rainflow & spectral Fatigue analysis
  • Pipelay and Riser code checks
  • Modelling of post-contact behaviour

New in version 11.4c
Bug fixes
Restarts replays with start and finish times outside the range covered by the specified simulations resulted in an access violation error.
6D buoy static state total load results (reported with respect to global axes) could not be obtained upon completion of a frequency domain analysis.
OrcaFlex became progressively more unresponsive as the number of bodies in a multibody group increased.
Spurious tracked changes could appear if new winch connections were added via a text variation file.
Since version 11.4a, the dimensions of the model browser were not being stored and restored when OrcaFlex was closed and re-opened.
An object’s orientation may have been incorrect in a restart analysis if the parent analysis was itself a restart analysis and the object’s connection parent had been changed somewhere in the chain of restarts.
Access violation errors may have arisen when modifying variation models or restart analyses loaded from binary data or simulation files. This bug would only have affected models containing lines or winches.
At replay times within the simulation, OrcaFlex would show N/A when presenting instantaneous value tables for user defined results, irrespective of the values returned by the user defined result code.
Connecting a newly created object, added in a restart analysis, to a line node that had been fed out in the course of the parent analysis (but which was inactive in the restart model’s reset state) would have resulted in the object being connected to the wrong node during the analysis.

The latest release of OrcaFlex 11.4 is OrcaFlex 11.4c.

The new features introduced in OrcaFlex 11.4 can be viewed online:

  • OrcaFlex
  • OrcaWave

OrcaFlex

  • Spurious tracked changes appear in the depth column of the profiled seabed data table when opening a text variation or restart file.

OrcaWave

  • Loading a binary variation or restart file fails to restore the change tracking state for wave spectra data.

These bugs will be fixed in 11.4d.

Product: OrcaFlex 11.4
Version:11.4
Supported Architectures: x64
Language: english
Supported Operating Systems:Windows 7even or newer
Size: 1CD

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