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ProteusDS - Oceanographic Toolset for Mooring Design
The ProteusDS Oceanographic Toolset is a comprehensive solution for designing oceanographic moorings, aimed at addressing challenges inherent in marine environments. This toolset aids in designing mooring systems capable of withstanding dynamic ocean conditions like wind, waves, and currents. It features an Official Parts Library that provides extensive data on commercial components, allowing rapid setup and adjustment of mooring designs. The software facilitates dynamic simulations to predict deflection and loads on mooring systems, ensuring effective design under extreme conditions. It automatically generates critical documentation, such as a Bill of Materials and mooring diagrams. The toolset fosters collaboration through easy sharing of designs and supports enhanced decision-making through detailed simulations and modeling. Trusted globally, including organizations like CSIRO, WHOI, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, ProteusDS enables efficient mooring design, evaluation, and optimization. Its user-friendly interface and technical support enhance its accessibility to ocean engineers.
How do you increase the chances you’ll get them back from the ocean?
Collecting data from the ocean helps fill in gaps in how the environment works. Data collection may also be another step forward in a much larger infrastructure or energy project. But the excitement of starting something new can quickly turn into stress. There’s stress because you want to ensure you get your mooring and the data back from the ocean. After all, there’s a lot at stake – instruments, equipment, and staff and ship time to mobilize moorings are expensive. Oceanographic moorings must withstand the forces of wind, waves, and currents. But how moorings interact with these environmental effects is not always straightforward.
There are ways to calculate the loads and deflections in moorings. But the loads and deflections all depend on the layout and components in the mooring. Mooring design needs a lot of attention to detail in establishing the right mooring length, the size, number, and placement of floats, and getting sensors to target instrument depths in the water. The mooring design process can leave you going around and around a design spiral as you make a lot of adjustments.
What’s needed is purpose-built oceanographic mooring design tools
This software needs to make adding, adjusting, and moving mooring components around in a design easy to do. It needs to calculate the dynamics of moorings in a marine environment so you can get a picture of what your mooring will do in wind, current, and waves. Getting this picture builds confidence that you’ll get your mooring and its data back.
Access a huge library of commercial parts. It’s time-consuming to find data on mooring components online or from suppliers. The Official Parts Library is populated with data on real components used in oceanographic moorings. Use the Official Parts Library to get a mooring design set up quickly.
Quickly set up and adjust a complete mooring design. A mooring doesn’t fall out of your head right onto paper in one go. There’s a lot of adjusting and modification as you find a solution. The Designer program makes it easy to insert new components and adjust their position on the mooring line.
Dial-in instrument position with an instant depth estimate. The mooring layout changes rapidly in the early stages of design. A rapid calculation of component depth makes the early-stage design phase extremely fast. The Designer reports estimated component depth instantly as the mooring changes.
Automatically create a Bill of Materials to source parts. When the mooring design is done, you need a shopping list – a Bill of Materials – to source parts. But going over every component in the mooring and tallying up all the numbers and line lengths is a time-consuming and mind-numbing task. With one click in ProteusDS Oceanographic Designer, you have a spreadsheet Bill of Materials based on the parts you’ve included for your project ready to go.
Rapid static deflection check in ocean currents. Large mooring deflections mean poor data quality. ProteusDS uses a rapid static calculation to show mooring deflection ocean currents. Once you know the mooring excursion and knockdown, you can quickly adjust the mooring if needed and check the new result.
Dynamic check in wind and waves. Moorings exposed to waves have complex dynamic loads. But these loads are predictable. ProteusDS uses a versatile calculation technique to show the mooring deflection and loads from ocean waves. Adjust mooring compliance or component strength so it survives extreme storm conditions.
Learn with publicly available mooring designs. Without much experience, it can be hard to find the right place to start. Use publicly available mooring designs on our website to learn how moorings are put together. Adapt these designs to accelerate design for your own project.
Use trusted software. ProteusDS is used by oceanographic and metocean organizations around the world like CSIRO, WHOI, Scripps, JAMSTEC, AIMS, DFO, and more.
Design and collaborate immediately with free features. Collaboration slows down when we don’t use the same software tools. Create and share detailed mooring designs with free functionality in ProtesuDS Oceanographic Designer.