About Profile Standard in AVEVA Marine

The steel structure of a ship is built up by plates and profiles welded together. The plates are bought in rectangular pieces and are available in an unrestricted variety of sizes and thicknesses. As a contrast profiles are traditionally available only in certain shapes, for example, flat bars and L-bars (angles), that means, there is a standard for profile types. For certain profiles types there is additionally only a restricted set of allowable parameters values.

A rather recent trend in shipbuilding is to use aluminium for certain types of vessels instead of - or as a complement to - steel. Since profiles in aluminium are fabricated by extrusion new shapes can rather easily be fabricated. Because of the flexibility these profile may differ considerably from traditional profile types and even combine the function of plate and stiffener into one object.

The purpose of this document is to describe how the profile standard is implemented in AVEVA Hull and how it can be used and controlled.