Samtech to release version 3 of SAMCEF for wind turbines

Samtech has announced the launch of the new commercial release 3 of SAMCEF for wind turbines (S4WT).

New features are:

• New S4WT Desktop providing tabs corresponding to a step in the modeling process: model definition, functions, loadcases, analyses run;
• Loadcases definition according to IEC or GL norms instead of using design loadcases automatically generated using loops on key parameters;
• Wind generator Turbsim (from NREL) now interfaced with S4WT;
• Automatic analyses creation by converting and retrieving loadcases,
• Use of assembly tables to easily include complex mechanisms in the global wind turbine model. Immediate benefit for the engineers who can easily interchange simplified wind turbine models with more detailed models including all relevant mechanisms;
• Post processing features numerous enhancements, among which the automatic detection of ultimate loadcases.

Offshore features are now available in order to manage most concepts of offshore wind turbines:

• Soil models for accounting the non-linear mechanics of the offshore foundation;
• Offshore structures dynamically loaded through Buoyancy and hydrodynamic wave loads;
• Interface with the external program Waveloads from Leibniz Universität Hannover to support various alternatives for the wave spectrum definition;
• Pre-defined parameterized models available in S4WT v3 for fixed offshore structures (jacket, tripod, monopile);
• Management of floating wind turbines anchored by mooring lines to the seabed.