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CAE Special Projects
Saltwater Engineering B.V.
Address Ter Steeghe Ring 101 • 3331 LX Zwijndrecht (NL)
Telephone +31 78-674-4811
Fax +31 78-674-4432
Contact Mr Ing. Mike Stelzer
Email m.stelzer@saltwater.nl
Website www.saltwater.nl
Naval architecture and engineering
Saltwater Engineering BV is an engineering partner for companies
working in the shipbuilding and maritime sectors.
The shipbuilding and maritime sectors, like most other sectors,
are being put more and more under pressure to shorten delivery
times of the end product. Saltwater Engineering offers fast and
flexible engineering solutions in all fields of naval architecture,
which can help to speed up the engineering process and subsequently
shorten delivery times.
Saltwater Engineering offers solutions from initial design all the
way through the building process and final delivery of a vessel
or marine product.
Key activities
• Vessel design from initial design to delivery
• Offshore structures
• Design and engineering for both new and refits of luxury
yachts
• Determination of scantlings for vessels and floating objects
that fall under the major international classification societies
• Global strength calculations of vessels and steel structures
• Local strength calculations of steel structures
• Hydrostatics and hydrodynamics of vessels and floating
objects
• Drafting of both general construction and workshop
drawings
• Technical advise and “second opinions”
• Project management
Organizational structure
The company is a partnership between four highly experienced
and motivated naval architects. Together the four partners
have more than 40 years of experience in the field of naval
architecture. A majority of these years has been comprised in
the areas of project management and/or co-ordination with
both experience in engineering and design offices as well as
on shipyards.
Used software • SCIA•ESA PT
Target groups
Our target groups include all shipyards and engineering firms
working in the general field of the shipbuilding industry. Due to
the current market situation the majority of or works is centred
on the yacht building and offshore industry.
Yacht on transport cradles
The aim of this project was to prove that the internal
structure of a luxury yacht would be strong enough to
support the cradle forces exerted on the yacht as it was
transported out of the production hall and on to the ship
lift.
The main concern in this case was that usually the
cradles are placed directly under transverse bulkheads
of the vessel; in this case however, the forward cradles
would have to be placed between the bulkheads to facilitate
access to the ship lift. This resulted in a large force
being introduced into the vessel on a very local scale if
compared to the normal situation of the vessel being
afloat in water.
The calculation covers all stresses occurring in the structure
due to the introduced cradle load.
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Yacht on transport cradles