Type Standard Brackets, Overview

Type standard brackets are brackets that are standardized with regard to geometry, stiffening, controlling parameters, rules for connection to the surrounding structure. They are part of the bracket standards of a certain yard and the standard may be created and maintained by the yard. The majority of the parameters for creation of instances of brackets are normally evaluated automatically, for example, location, sizes,

AVEVA Marine is delivered with a set-up file, sbh_bracket_ctrl.dat, which defines a majority of brackets used. The file may be extended or modified with customer specific additions/modifications.

Type standard brackets may occur in a number of different types of connections and has interactive support for their generation (menu function Planar > Model > Create > Bracket). The result will be input in bracket statements according to a number of bracket syntaxes, described in detail below.

Type standard brackets are normally topologically connected to their surrounding, that means, they will automatically adapt to changes.