Safina

Safina's experience in solving unique design problems has led us to develop state-of-the-art engineering analysis capabilities. These skills can stand alone or be coupled with our consulting and design services for new insights. Our associates maintain an active awareness of industry trends, innovations and new analytical tools to offer you the most advanced engineering and analysis services. Whether your needs require a conventional or one-of-a-kind approach, look to us for the solution.ositioning

Ship Motions and Seakeeping 

• Strip theory
• Radiation and diffraction methods
• Multi-body problems
• Ships, platforms and civil structures
• Frequency and probability
• Time domain

Structural Analysis

• FEA (finite element analysis)
• Global and detail FEA models
• DLA (dynamic loads analysis)
• Vibrations analysis
• Testing and measurement
• Spectral fatigue analysis

Hydroelastic Structural Dynamics

• Floating bridges
• Breakwaters and platforms
• Impulse response functions
• Global finite element analysis
• Structural damping

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

• Wake propagation
• Potential flows
• Boundary layer and viscous flows
• Wind and current loads

Marine Climatology

• Statistical and extremal analysis
• Wave hindcasts
• Time series evaluation
• Operations and voyage planning
• Over-the-beach operations
• Site selection

Maneuvering Simulation

• Real-time user driven simulations
• Autopilot driven fast-time simulations
• Drifting
• Port and harbor safety assessments
• Maneuvering prediction
• Maneuvering posters
• Speed-dependent tug forces
• Tug requirements for tanker escort

Mooring and Cable Structures

• Cable installations
• Cable handling systems
• Vessel selection / availability
• Outfit and equipment design
• Climatology and operability
• Station-keeping and positioning
• Mooring system design

Ship Escort

• OPA 90 implementations
• Regional plans
• Company compliance plans
• Tug evaluation
• Classification society escort notations
• Full-scale trials

Model Testing

• Testing acquisition and management
• Resistance, propulsion
• Propellers and cavitation
• Seakeeping
• Maneuvering
• Wave-induced forces
• Natural environment testing
• Wind tunnel testing

Operability and Risk Assessment

• First principle analyses
• Probability domain analysis
• Vessel responses, forces
• Speed, fuel consumption
• Level I, II and III risk methods
• Actuarial and time-domain
• Monte Carlo methods
• Failure modes and effects (FMEA)

Marine Collisions

• Ship-ship and ship-structure impacts
• Cargo protection
• Bridge pier protection
• Pollution Abatement
• Ballast water management
• Vapor control; VOC and combustion
• Shipboard oil pollution emergency plans
• Shipboard wastes and incineration
• Shipboard sanitation