Swaging

There is an additional way to stiffen a plate surface, for example, to use small corrugations like profiles. Such corrugations are, in Hull, called swages. From a functional point of view, they act very much like stiffeners. In Hull Modelling, they are generated as a special type of component with a statement type of their own, described in Hull / Planar Modelling / Design Language of Hull Modelling / Swage Statement.

The characteristics of the swage are specified in a user defined external table, a swage object.

Swages will modify the geometry of the part it is located on. This modification of the geometry will take place in the splitting to parts. Therefore, the geometry of panels with swages is according to nominal sizes.