Brackets

Brackets are rather complex when considered as standardized elements. Different factors affecting a bracket are:

• Its outer contour that - in turn - consists of bracket toes of different types, connected by a free side.

• The bracket may have notches at the corners.

• The bracket may be stiffened, either by a welded or folded flange or by stiffeners.

• The bracket may have standardized connections to the surrounding hull structure.

• The bracket may be associated with rules for how its size should be derived from the surrounding structure.

All these aspects are considered in the AVEVA Marine facility for set-up of a customer bracket standard. The toolbox for brackets consists of standardized toes and standardized connections with rules for how certain parameters of the bracket should be calculated automatically. In addition the standards for notches, profiles and flanges as described above are used also in the customer set-up of brackets.

Even if standards can be set up for the majority of a customer's brackets there will always be some that are so special that they cannot be set up as a standard. Such brackets may be generated as so called panel brackets.

The bracket facility of AVEVA Marine allows a customer to define a bracket standard of his own. In doing that some parameters of the brackets are given specified values, for example, toe heights, toe lengths, whereas other parameters are supposed to be evaluated or given by the user when the bracket is used.

A set of bracket parameters for a certain bracket type is said to form an instance of the bracket type.