SDC Verifier

SDC Verifier

SDC Verifier, with more than twenty years of experience and over 400 projects from nearly 100 customers such as Boskalis, Technip FMC, Bluewater, and others, offers comprehensive engineering consulting services with expertise in FEA analysis in the marine and offshore, civil engineering, and consumer products industries.

FEA Consulting Services from SDC Verifier Engineering Team

  • Design check and optimization
  • Certification support
  • Tender support
  • Structural calculations
  • Building digital twins
  • Cloud-based engineering solutions
  • Measurements and inspections
  • Standard checking

FEA Simulation and Structural Verification Software

Besides engineering consulting, SDC Verifier has developed and provides all-in-one FEA simulation, analysis and code verification software. This can be useful to complete the most complex structural engineering projects in numerous industries.

In addition to the main program, SDC Verifier has applications that run on top of Ansys Mechanical, Femap, and Simcenter 3D and bring standards-compliance verification to them.

Library of engineering standards

SDC Verifier includes the most important engineering standards for the offshore, maritime, civil and heavy lifting industries, with the ability to include your own custom formulas or modify the existing rules. The standards library is constantly growing and now includes nearly 40 standards, such as:

  • ANSI/AISC 1989, 360-10, 360-16 (Specification for Structural Steel Buildings),
  • API 2A RP (Recommended Practice for Planning, Designing, and Constructing Fixed Offshore Platforms),
  • ISO 19902 (Petroleum and natural gas industries – Fixed steel offshore structures),
  • Norsok N004 (Design of steel structures),
  • DIN 15018 (Cranes; steel structures; verification and analyses),
  • Eurocode 3 (EN 1993) (Design of steel structures),
  • FEM 1.001 (Rules For The Design of Hoisting Appliances),
  • ABS 2004 (Guide for Buckling and Ultimate Strength assessment for offshore structures),
  • ABS 2014 (Guide for Building and Classing – Floating Production Installations),
  • DNV RP-C201 (Buckling Strength of Plated Structures),
  • DNV CN30 (Buckling Strength Analysis),
  • DNV-OS-C101 (Design of Offshore Steel Structures),
  • EN 13001 (Crane safety – General design),
  • ASME B31.8 (Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping Systems),
  • ASME Section 8 (Div 2, 2010) (Design for longitudinal stress check. Pressure Vessels),
  • AIJ-2017 (Design Standard For Steel Structures based on Allowable Stress Concept),
  • AS 3990 (Mechanical equipment — Steelwork),
  • DVS 1608 (Design and strength assessment of welded structures from aluminum alloys in railway applications),
  • DVS 1612 (Design and endurance strength analysis of steel welded joints in rail-vehicle construction),
  • FKM Guideline (Calculated strength verification of machine components) 5th and 6th editions,
  • VDI 2230 (Systematic Calculation of High Duty Bolted Joints).