Bending Templates for Shell Plates

When forming curved shell plates it is common to use different kinds of templates to control and check the forming process. AVEVA Marine has a facility that can develop several different types of templates and produce outputs in several different formats.

Templates can be generated for plates, developed by the module for developing shell plates. Templates may further be developed both as inner and outer templates depending on the curvature of the plate.

Traditionally, bending templates were often physical templates made of wooden board. Today, these physical templates have often been replaced by different kinds of reusable templates that can be set up to fit any plate.

However, the template module in the bottom still always creates the information required for physical templates. These templates are stored as a special kind of plate part in the plate data bank. The contents of such a part are a template contour and miscellaneous additional information that may be used to position the template correctly and to perform different alignment checks.

In a second step the information in these physical templates may be processed in different ways by this module to extract and output the information required to set up different types of adjustable templates. It also follows that some of the information that is relevant for physical templates may be irrelevant for other types of templates, even if this information is always there.