Shell Plate Development, Method

Plate parts are manufactured by cutting from planar raw plates. This is also true for plates that are non-planar when finally assembled, for example, many of the plates in the shell of a ship. This causes a problem and calls for a tool that can transform the non-planar three-dimensional plate into a planar geometry with such characteristics that it fits into the limiting curves in space after forming.

AVEVA Marine has a powerful function, called Shell Plate Development, that meets this requirement. The principles and concepts of this function are described in the current document.