PRODUCT DATA SHEET

MOSES
Hydrostatic and Hydrodynamic Analysis Software for Offshore Installation and Platform Design

MOSES is advanced hydrostatic and hydrodynamic software that provides

for the accurate calculation and simulation of offshore floating systems. Its
analysis capabilities and scripting language can be applied in the frequency
domain and time domain for both installation problems and in-place analysis
of FPSOs and floating platforms. More than 30 years of focus on these
specialized requirements have made MOSES the analysis mainstay for most
of the world’s offshore installation projects. MOSES is available in three
packages to suit all design office requirements: MOSES, MOSES Advanced,
and MOSES Ultimate.
MOSES can compute motions and stability of any vessel or platform.
The CONNECT Edition
The SELECT® CONNECT Edition includes SELECT CONNECTservices, new Azure-based and mooring forces. The solver supports model inputs, including section or panel definition of
services that provide comprehensive learning, mobility, and collaboration benefits to hull shapes, Morison elements, various kinds of taut or catenary mooring lines, as well as beam
every Bentley application subscriber. Adaptive Learning Services helps users master use and plate elements.
of Bentley applications through CONNECT Advisor, a new in-application service that pro-
Connectors in MOSES are particularly flexible and effective. They provide a generalized way
vides contextual and personalized learning. Personal Mobility Services provides unlimited
of describing connections between floating bodies, or to the ground, and include catenary
access to Bentley apps, ensuring users have access to the right project information when
mooring lines, tension- and compression-only nonlinear springs, rigid connectors such as pins
and where they need it. ProjectWise® Connection Services allow users to securely share
and launchways, and even true nonlinear rod elements.
application and project information, to manage and resolve issues, and to create, send,
and receive transmittals, submittals, and RFIs. MOSES Language
MOSES: The MOSES scripting language provides a unique, flexible, and powerful way of specifying
system behavior and performing a series of analyses to consider different installation or
Stability and Motions operational conditions. In addition to providing specialized capabilities, the MOSES language
The MOSES package provides a highly capable and cost-effective package for stability is rich in general utilities for interactive reporting, graphing, viewing 3D models, and
assessment and motions analysis in the frequency domain. Hull and compartment modeling statistical interpretation.
are included along with both strip theory and 3D diffraction analysis methods. Installation • Model generation with validity checking
operations for loadout, frequency domain transportation, and upend can be performed • Run complex analyses with a single command, including reporting
with MOSES. • Database capability with restart options
• Macros, loops, and conditional execution
MOSES Advanced:
Stability, Motions, Mooring, and Structures MOSES Editors
The MOSES Advanced package adds time domain and structural analysis capabilities to the All MOSES packages include the MOSES smart language editor for managing scripts and
MOSES package, which can be applied using either strip theory or 3D diffraction panel methods data files, Hull Modeler for 3D interactive creation of hull shapes, Stability Modeler for
of calculation. When coupled with mooring line dynamics and large deflection rod elements, compartmentation and load case management, Motions Modeler for environmental and
MOSES Advanced can be used to model risers. mooring inputs, and Hull Mesher for graphical creation of structural models.

MOSES Ultimate: Capabilities:

Stability, Motions, Mooring, Structures, and Launch Basic Connectors
The Basic Connectors module provides a generalized way of modeling lifting slings,
The MOSES Ultimate package provides a complete range of functions, from modeling of hulls
anchor lines, mooring lines, nonlinear springs, pins, fenders, and any other item that
and calculation of stability, to prediction of motions, mooring analysis and structural analysis,
connects two bodies together or connects a body to the ground. Connectors can be
plus launch analysis, completing the range of installation operations capabilities. Inclusion of
tension-only or compression-only and custom connectors can be defined.
generalized degrees of freedom enables studies of new or existing FPSOs and platforms, as
well as transportation and installation analysis. • Lift, lower, or upend with multiple slings and hooks
• Activate or deactivate to simulate breaking or re-rigging
Productivity Tools: • Move anchors to achieve a specified tension
MOSES Solver • Hold hooks at elevation or load while flooding or pumping
All three packages include the MOSES Solver and MOSES Language modules – the platform on • Catenary mooring lines with buoys or clump weights
which all analysis capabilities depend. The unique, generalized solver allows the consideration • Nonlinear springs with tension or compression only
of all types of forces acting on the floating system, including hydrostatic, hydrodynamic, inertial, • Gaps, pins, and lines provide constraints to motion
System Requirements Strip Theory Jacket Launch
Strip theory provides a fast and proven way of predicting the The Jacket Launch module can be used to perform
Processor: a six-degree-of-freedom time domain simulation of
2 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 64-bit (x64)
motions of vessels. It is well suited for barge transports and
a jacket launch from a barge into water.
any vessel that is slender in its L/B (length/beam) ratio.
Operating System: • Automated ballasting
Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 64-bit • RAOs (response amplitude operators) at CG (center of
• Winch and friction definitions
operating systems gravity) or remote locations
• Standard and user defined spectra • Optional side launch
RAM:
• Statistical multipliers or storm duration definition
Minimum 4 GB of RAM, Generalized Degrees of Freedom
8 GB recommended The Generalized Degrees of Freedom module is used to
3D Diffraction consider the effect of structural deformation and flexibility
Disk Space:
Minimum 10 GB of free disk space Prediction of motions for non-ship shaped hulls and for on buoyancy, frequency response, and loadout calculations.
situations in which surge is important. Adaptive meshing It can also be used to consider the hydrodynamic interaction
Display: automatically increases panel mesh density as required. between two vessels.
Graphics card supporting DirectX10
• Hull Modeler automatically generates
and Open GL, with minimum 1GB
hydrodynamic meshes MOSES-SACS Intraoperability
RAM (integrated graphics cards
are not recommended) • Non-linear, slowly varying, wave drift forces MOSES imports SACS structural models for offshore
installation analysis. Generating SACS TOW files from
Time Domain MOSES allows automatic generation of inertial based
The Time Domain module can perform a time history simulation acceleration loading and RAOs.
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at: www.bentley.com domain results, and taking into account mooring, current,
and wave forces, the Time Domain module provides fast
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Global Office Listings • Environment of current, irregular waves, and/or wind Capability MOSES MOSES MOSES
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• Multiple body motions can be analyzed
• Vortex shedding in wind or water is computed MOSES Editor   
• Dynamic tank flooding and emptying Hull Modeler   

Pipe & Rod Elements Stability Modeler   

When analyzing mooring line dynamics, the Pipe & Rod Motions Modeler   
module allows accurate calculation of mooring line response,
taking into account large deflections. This allows modeling Hull Mesher   
and analysis of anchor lines, mooring lines, TLP (tension leg
platform) tendons, rigid risers, and pipelines. MOSES Solver   
• Large deflection beam capability MOSES Language   
• Handles TLP tendons, rigid risers, and pipelines
• Mooring line dynamics are included Strip Theory   
• Combine pipe assemblies with rollers Basic Connectors   

Structural Solver 3D Diffraction   

The Structural Solver module enables structural analysis Time Domain  
and spectral fatigue of topside or cargo structures.
It supports beam and plate elements and can import Pipe & Rod  
structures from SACS.
Structural Solver  
• Linear, nonlinear, and frequency domain analysis
• Modal analysis using subspace iteration Jacket Launch 
• Code checking to API, AISC, NORSOK, and ISO
Generalized D.O.F. 

• Stability and upending analysis • Floatover • Time domain simulation • Multiple moorings and slings
• Lifting • Ballasting • Jacket launch • Body-body interaction • Animations for visualization

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