MAESTRO Marine

MAESTRO is a computer program for rationally-based design of large, complex thin-walled structures. In essence, MAESTRO is a synthesis of finite element analysis, failure (or limit state) analysis, and mathematical optimization, all of which is integrated under a user-friendly graphical interface. By virtue of its 25-year history and worldwide user base, MAESTRO has been applied to a wide range of aluminum, composite, and steel structures: naval vessels from patrol boats to a 41,000 tonne carrier (USS Wasp), coast guard cutters, double hull tankers, high speed ferries, SWATH and catamaran ships, bulk carriers of all types (including molten sulfur), and many other (non-ship) types of structures. MAESTRO’s failure analysis results have been accurately correlated to in-service structural damage incurred by several ships, and used for the design of corrective modifications.