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Explore design alternatives, predict performance and deliver safe, cost-effective offshore wind farm structures with OpenWindPower.

Design offshore wind turbines
Analyze wave and wind loading
Perform coupled or uncoupled analysis
Predict stress cycles with fatigue analysis
Ensure offshore code compliance

Learn more about what OpenWindPower can do for you...

OVERVIEW

What is OpenWindPower? What is OpenWindPower used for?

OpenWindPower is offshore wind turbine analysis software. You can count on OpenWindPower for both fixed foundation or floating platform offshore wind turbine projects. Take a look below at the two different software applications, OpenWindPower Fixed Foundation and OpenWindPower Floating Platform, to get a better understanding of what each includes.

OPENWINDPOWER FIXED FOUNDATION

What is OpenWindPower Fixed Foundation?

OpenWindPower Fixed Foundation provides you everything you need for the design and analysis of offshore wind turbine structures. Subject to wave, wind, and mechanical loading, OpenWindPower Fixed Foundation makes it easy to predict both fatigue and extreme loads for the substructure and nonlinear foundation.

Analyze wave and wind loading
Wave loading can be represented by either a time history or in spectral form. A random wave surface profile may be determined from a wave height spectral density function using multiple random seeds. Similarly, the wind loading can be input as time history or as a random loading developed from various spectra.

Perform coupled or uncoupled analysis
Interface to the GH Bladed and FAST software and account for the full coupling between wave, wind, and the wind-induced mechanical loading for a multimodal response analysis. The GH Bladed multicore interface is fully automated, allowing users to efficiently manage hundreds of time history simulations required for fatigue analysis. Alternatively, the wind-induced mechanical force time history can be assumed to be independent of the wave and wind loads for an uncoupled analysis. For a random analysis, equivalent static loads—representing both inertia loading and hydrodynamic/aerodynamic loading—may be created as part of the analysis at time points selected either automatically by the program, at user-specified times, or any specified time increment.

Predict stress cycles with fatigue analysis
The OpenWindPower Fixed Foundation fatigue analysis method uses the Rainflow counting approach to predict the stress cycles resulting from a time history analysis—including the ability to sequentially accumulate the damage from multiple analysis simulations for numerous wind speeds and seastates.

OPENWINDPOWER FLOATING PLATFORM

What is OpenWindPower Floating Platform?

OpenWindPower Floating Platform helps you quickly explore design alternatives so you deliver safe, cost-effective floating wind farm structures in the least amount of time. It includes automated tools that help determine hydrodynamic, aerodynamic and structural loading and analyze environmental conditions, mooring configurations, and define a range of operating conditions.

Create accurate hydrodynamic and structural models of any floating platform, graphically or by script.
Simulate moorings in both the frequency and time domains.
Optimize the interaction between the floating platform and the wind turbine.
Utilize the superior structural code checking to post process calculated time domain loads contained within a common solution file.
Ensure structural compliance to offshore design codes by using built-in checking.
Filter results for critical conditions.
Optimize design and configuration for compliance to numerous current and past international codes, including API, AISC, EC, ISO, DNV, and Norsok.
Deliver compliance documentation.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Where can I get OpenWindPower training?

If you want to receive tailored training or attend an OpenWindPower course, Virtuosity offers extra training and mentoring services. You can choose from tailor-made training, on-demand learning, consulting services, mentoring and more. Learn more about Expert Services at Virtuosity here.

What is the difference between OpenWindPower and other vendors like DNV or ANSYS?

OpenWindPower offers:

A purpose-built application specific to offshore wind turbines
A unified 3D model and integrated project workflow so that it’s easier to handle large complex models and is widely accepted in the industry
Broad design code coverage
Interactive fatigue and strength design for fast design iterations
Comprehensive interoperability with Bentley software and 3rd party products

What is included in OpenWindPower?
OpenWindPower bundles all of the capabilities of SACS products for pile structure design, collapse, and fatigue.

What regional codes does OpenWindPower support?
Optimize design and configuration for compliance to numerous current and past international codes including API, AISC, EC3, ISO, DNV, and Norsok.

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

A practitioner license of OpenWindPower Fixed Foundation costs $43,377 USD and OpenWindPower Floating Platform costs $60,000 USD at Virtuosity.com. To see the price in your local currency select your currency at the bottom of this page. 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.

EXPERT SERVICES AND TAILORED TRAINING

Expert services and tailored training, when and where you need it.

At Virtuosity, we understand how important it is to get the most out of every working moment. You need to limit downtime, and use each software application to its fullest potential. There is just no time to spare. That's why every software purchase through Virtuosity comes as a bundle with “Keys” or credits that can be redeemed for expert services and training, so you can get started right away. Learn more about our training options.

We call this bundle the Virtuoso Subscription.

Each practitioner license comes with a number of "Keys" and you can always purchase additional "Keys" as you go.

There is a menu of expert services and training options that you can redeem your "Keys" for:

	Keys (Training Credits)	Hours (Approximate)
Quick start training Virtual classroom training is a great way to quick-start your success.	1 key	2 hours
Recorded online sessions OnDemand sessions can be very helpful and convenient. They include information on the latest software, workflows, and systems.	1 key	2 hours
Standard training Standard training offers a thorough understanding of general features, workflows and tools of the application.	1 key	4 hours
Customized training With tailored training you can set your own agenda for training and get something to suit your specific requirements.	1 key	2 hours
Consulting If you have a challenging or unique project, you may choose to expand your team with one of our experts.	1 key	2 hours
Mentoring Get one-on-one mentoring from a product expert. Choose from a variety of topics including design, analysis, and modeling techniques.	1 key	2 hours

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

Professional Static Offshore Package

Contains capabilities for offshore jackets, wharfs, and dolphin structures
Includes interactive graphics modeled with advanced 3D capabilities and interactive graphics post processor, seastate, joint can, pile, combine, gap, tow, and LDF large deflection
Features automatic model generation, beam and finite element capability, steel code check and redesign, environmental load generation, tubular connection check, single pile/soil interaction, inertia and moving load generation, tension/compression nonlinear elements with initial gap, load case combination, linear large deflection analysis, and full output report and plotting capabilities

Plastic Nonlinear Add-on

Includes nonlinear foundation, and nonlinear and plastic analysis capabilities
Plastic analysis includes pushover, ship impact, and blast nonlinear analysis
Collapse view interactive collapse results processor

Pile-soil Interaction

Features the PSI nonlinear soil/pile/structure interaction program module

Advanced Dynamic Fatigue Package

Contains the modules required to perform any dynamic deterministic, time history, or spectral fatigue analysis

Fatigue Life Evaluation and Redesign

Spectral, time history, and deterministic fatigue analysis
Cyclic stress range calculation procedures include wave search, curve fit, and interpolation
SCF calculations recommended by API (including 21st ed. supplements), HSE, DNV, DS449, and Norsok Codes
Automatic redesign
API (including 21st ed. supplements), AWS, HSE, and Norsok thickness dependent recommended S-N curves
Multiple run damage accumulation
Pierson-Moskowitz, JONSWAP, Ochi-Hubble double peak, simplified double peek, Von-Karman, Harris, Kaimal, and user-defined spectra
Automated or user-specified connection details
Pile fatigue analysis
Wave spectra creation from scatter diagram
Paris equation used to predict crack growth rate due to cyclic stresses
Load path dependent joint classifications
Includes wave spreading effects
Reservoir (rain flow) cycle counting method
ISO 19902

Dynamic Superelement