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Conquer the complexity of marine operations with simulation

MOSES is integrated offshore simulation software. This advanced hydrostatic and hydrodynamic software ensures that you can apply industry best practices to installation and design sequences, while exploring design alternatives within a unified modeling environment. Bentley MOSES integrated simulation software helps you minimize offshore project risks with optimal designs.

MOSES is offered in different variations, so you can choose what’s best for you.

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Automate performance analysis

Easily analyze floating systems across a range of operating conditions using simulation language to define environmental conditions, specify mooring configurations, and run integrated solvers in a unified environment.

Model offshore vessels and platforms

Use interactive graphical tools specific to offshore structures to prepare models of your vessels and floating systems. Help ensure accurate loading definition by visualizing tank and compartment models during modification.

Simulate marine operations

Leverage comprehensive and customizable scripting tools and pre-defined macros to explore design alternatives and manage complex installation sequences.

“Bentley SACS and MOSES software are essential capabilities for fixed offshore structure design.”

Product Tiers

MOSES is offered in different variations, so you can choose what's best for you.

MOSES MOSES Advanced MOSES Enterprise

MOSES

Analyze stability and motions in the frequency domain cost-effectively with MOSES. Enjoy hull and compartment modeling, as well as strip theory and 3D diffraction analysis.

The modules included in all MOSES packages include:

MOSES Solver: Allows you to consider all type of forces acting on your floating systems, including hydrostatic, hydrodynamic, inertial, and mooring forces.
MOSES Language: Provides a unique, flexible, and powerful way of specifying system behavior and analyzing performance for different installations and operational conditions.
Hull Modeler: Gives you an interactive way to create 3D hull shapes.
Stability Modeler: Allows you to model compartmentation and load case management.
Motions Modeler: Provides the tools for modeling environmental and mooring inputs.
Hull Mesher: Enables you to graphically represent structural models.
Basic Connectors: Offer a generalized way of modeling lifting slings, anchor lines, mooring lines, nonlinear springs, pins, fenders, and other items that connect two bodies or a body to the ground. Connectors can be tension-only or compression-only and custom connectors can be defined.
- Lift, lower, or upend with multiple slings and hooks
- Activate or deactivate to simulate breaking or re-rigging
- Move anchors to achieve a specified tension
- Hold hooks at elevation or load while flooding or pumping
- Catenary mooring lines with buoys or clump weights
- Nonlinear springs with tension or compression only
- Gaps, pins, and lines provide constraints to motion
Strip Theory: Provides a fast and proven way to predict the motions of your vessel. It is well suited for barge transports and any vessel that is slender in its L/B (length/beam) ratio.
- RAOs (response amplitude operators) at CG (center of gravity) or remote locations
- Standard and user-defined spectra
- Statistical multipliers or storm duration definition
3D Diffraction: Allows you to predict motions for non-ship shaped hulls and account for surge. Adaptive meshing automatically increases panel mesh density as required.
- Hull Modeler automatically generates hydrodynamic meshes
- Non-linear, slowly varying, wave drift forces

MOSES Advanced

MOSES Advanced builds on the benefits of MOSES and includes time domain and structural analysis capabilities.

In addition to what is included in MOSES, MOSES Advanced and MOSES Enterprise include:

Time Domain: Perform time-history simulations on single or multi-body systems to predict performance.The Time Domain module can perform a time history simulation on any single or multi-body system. Starting from the frequency domain results, and taking into account mooring, current, and wave forces, the Time Domain module provides fast computation of full system response. Customizable reporting and automatic generation of system response animations allow easy understanding and communication of results.
- Environment of current, irregular waves, and/or wind
- Multiple body motions can be analyzed
- Vortex shedding in wind or water is computed
- Dynamic tank flooding and emptying
Pipe and Rod Elements: Handle mooring line dynamics with accurate calculations or response, including accounting for large deflections. This allows modelling and analysis of anchor lines, mooring lines, TLP (tension leg platform) tendons, rigid risers, and pipelines.
- Large deflection beam capability
- Handles TLP tendons, rigid risers, and pipelines
- Mooring line dynamics are included
- Combine pipe assemblies with rollers
Structural Solver: Enable structural analysis, as well as spectral fatigue analysis of topside and cargo structures. It supports beam and plate elements and can import structures from SACS.
- Linear, nonlinear, and frequency domain analysis
- Modal analysis using subspace iteration
- Code checking to API, AISC, NORSOK, and ISO

MOSES Enterprise

MOSES Enterprise offers the most complete range of functions and enables you to model hulls, calculate stability, predict motions, and analyze mooring, structures, and launch.

MOSES Enterprise offers everything that is in MOSES Advanced as well as two additional modules:

Jacket Launch: Perform six-degree-of-freedom time domain simulations of jacket launches from a barge into water.
- Automated ballasting
- Winch and friction definitions
- Optional side launch
Generalized Degrees of Freedom: Understand the effect of structural deformation and flexibility on buoyancy, frequency response, and loadout calculations. It can also be used to consider the hydrodynamic interaction between two vessels.

MOSES

Analyze stability and motions in the frequency domain cost-effectively with MOSES. Enjoy hull and compartment modeling, as well as strip theory and 3D diffraction analysis.

The modules included in all MOSES packages include:

MOSES Solver: Allows you to consider all type of forces acting on your floating systems, including hydrostatic, hydrodynamic, inertial, and mooring forces.
MOSES Language: Provides a unique, flexible, and powerful way of specifying system behavior and analyzing performance for different installations and operational conditions.
Hull Modeler: Gives you an interactive way to create 3D hull shapes.
Stability Modeler: Allows you to model compartmentation and load case management.
Motions Modeler: Provides the tools for modeling environmental and mooring inputs.
Hull Mesher: Enables you to graphically represent structural models.
Basic Connectors: Offer a generalized way of modeling lifting slings, anchor lines, mooring lines, nonlinear springs, pins, fenders, and other items that connect two bodies or a body to the ground. Connectors can be tension-only or compression-only and custom connectors can be defined.
- Lift, lower, or upend with multiple slings and hooks
- Activate or deactivate to simulate breaking or re-rigging
- Move anchors to achieve a specified tension
- Hold hooks at elevation or load while flooding or pumping
- Catenary mooring lines with buoys or clump weights
- Nonlinear springs with tension or compression only
- Gaps, pins, and lines provide constraints to motion
Strip Theory: Provides a fast and proven way to predict the motions of your vessel. It is well suited for barge transports and any vessel that is slender in its L/B (length/beam) ratio.
- RAOs (response amplitude operators) at CG (center of gravity) or remote locations
- Standard and user-defined spectra
- Statistical multipliers or storm duration definition
3D Diffraction: Allows you to predict motions for non-ship shaped hulls and account for surge. Adaptive meshing automatically increases panel mesh density as required.
- Hull Modeler automatically generates hydrodynamic meshes
- Non-linear, slowly varying, wave drift forces

MOSES Advanced

MOSES Advanced builds on the benefits of MOSES and includes time domain and structural analysis capabilities.

In addition to what is included in MOSES, MOSES Advanced and MOSES Enterprise include:

Time Domain: Perform time-history simulations on single or multi-body systems to predict performance.The Time Domain module can perform a time history simulation on any single or multi-body system. Starting from the frequency domain results, and taking into account mooring, current, and wave forces, the Time Domain module provides fast computation of full system response. Customizable reporting and automatic generation of system response animations allow easy understanding and communication of results.
- Environment of current, irregular waves, and/or wind
- Multiple body motions can be analyzed
- Vortex shedding in wind or water is computed
- Dynamic tank flooding and emptying
Pipe and Rod Elements: Handle mooring line dynamics with accurate calculations or response, including accounting for large deflections. This allows modelling and analysis of anchor lines, mooring lines, TLP (tension leg platform) tendons, rigid risers, and pipelines.
- Large deflection beam capability
- Handles TLP tendons, rigid risers, and pipelines
- Mooring line dynamics are included
- Combine pipe assemblies with rollers
Structural Solver: Enable structural analysis, as well as spectral fatigue analysis of topside and cargo structures. It supports beam and plate elements and can import structures from SACS.
- Linear, nonlinear, and frequency domain analysis
- Modal analysis using subspace iteration
- Code checking to API, AISC, NORSOK, and ISO

MOSES Enterprise

MOSES Enterprise offers the most complete range of functions and enables you to model hulls, calculate stability, predict motions, and analyze mooring, structures, and launch.

MOSES Enterprise offers everything that is in MOSES Advanced as well as two additional modules:

Jacket Launch: Perform six-degree-of-freedom time domain simulations of jacket launches from a barge into water.
- Automated ballasting
- Winch and friction definitions
- Optional side launch
Generalized Degrees of Freedom: Understand the effect of structural deformation and flexibility on buoyancy, frequency response, and loadout calculations. It can also be used to consider the hydrodynamic interaction between two vessels.

Technical Capabilities

What's included in MOSES?

MOSES Solver: Allows you to consider all type of forces acting on your floating systems, including hydrostatic, hydrodynamic, inertial, and mooring forces.

MOSES Language: Provides a unique, flexible, and powerful way of specifying system behavior and analyzing performance for different installations and operational conditions.

Hull Modeler: Gives you an interactive way to create 3D hull shapes.

Stability Modeler: Allows you to model compartmentation and load case management.

Motions Modeler: Provides the tools for modeling environmental and mooring inputs.

Hull Mesher: Enables you to graphically represent structural models.

Basic Connectors: Offer a generalized way of modeling lifting slings, anchor lines, mooring lines, nonlinear springs, pins, fenders, and other items that connect two bodies or a body to the ground.

Strip Theory: Provides a fast and proven way to predict the motions of your vessel.

3D Diffraction: Allows you to predict motions for non-ship shaped hulls and account for surge.

What's included in MOSES Advanced?

What's included in MOSES Enterprise?

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is MOSES? What is MOSES used for?

MOSES is integrated offshore simulation software that helps you minimize offshore project risks with optimal designs. MOSES helps you cost-effectively analyze stability and motions in the frequency domain. You can perform hull and compartment modeling, as well as strip theory and 3D diffraction analysis.

Where can I find MOSES tutorials?

While many MOSES tutorials can be found on Bentley Communities, here are some FREE MOSES and SACS webinars available at Virtuosity.com, a Bentley Company.

Where can I get MOSES training or find MOSES courses?

If you want to receive tailored training or attend a MOSES course that is specific to your project requirement, Virtuosity offers extra training and mentoring services. You can choose from tailor-made training, on-demand learning, consulting services, mentoring and more.

What is the price of MOSES? How much does MOSES cost?

A practitioner license of MOSES costs $15,220 USD, MOSES Advanced costs $27,816 USD, and MOSES Enterprise costs $51,958 USD at Virtuosity.com. Prices vary per region. While there are various types of licensing available, a common choice is the 12-month practitioner license offered through Virtuosity, Bentley’s eCommerce store. When you purchase through Virtuosity you get a Virtuoso Subscription which means you get both the software AND the training, expert services, and custom mentoring you need to get started quickly.

System Requirements

Processor

2 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 64-bit (x64)

Operating System

Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 64-bit operating systems

RAM

Minimum 4 GB of RAM, 8 GB recommended

Disk Space

Minimum 10 GB of free disk space

Display

Graphics card supporting DirectX10 and Open GL, with minimum 1GB RAM (integrated graphics cards are not recommended)

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