Sesam Knowledge Centre Sesam.Starter
Introduction
Sesam.Starter is designed specifically for students and individuals wanting to explore structural analysis. This starter package serves as an introductory tool, enabling users to familiarize themselves with the user interface and basic functionalities of Sesam. It facilitates the modelling and static analysis of small-scale structural components, such as topside modules and helidecks, utilizing beams and plates. The package is adept at scenarios including transportation, lifting, and in-place conditions. It also allows for member code checking.
The package is free of charge and the usage shall be of a non-commercial nature.
No end-user support is available - DNV is unable to respond to any support requests raised. However, the software installation contains multiple tutorials that you can learn from, and the documentation on this site contains videos demonstrating how to do a small project including modelling, structural analysis and member code checking.
If you are an engineer needing more functionality than that provided by Sesam.Starter, you can contact our sales team and request a commercial version of Sesam. Students should contact their university and ask for an academic version of Sesam to be installed at the university.
If you have proposals for improving Sesam.Starter, we would appreciate hearing from you.
What can you do with Sesam.Starter?
The idea behind the Sesam.Starter is that engineers and students can learn the user interface and how to do modelling, structural analysis, and member code check of modest structures.
A structure can contain up to 100 members (beams or plates) and the analysis model can contain up to 1000 finite elements. The model below is an example with 52 beams and 5 plates.
Figure 1. Small topside module modelled in Sesam.Starter.
The structural analysis model (the FE model) in this case has 972 finite elements.
Figure 2. FEM model of topside module.
Sesam.Starter can be used for early analysis studies of small modules (like in this example), small helidecks, subsea templates etc.
You can look at finite element results like stresses and deformations.
Figure 3. FEM results of topside module.
It is also possible to do member code check based on API/AISC, ISO/EUROCODE and NORSOK/EUROCODE.
Figure 4. Beam code check results of topside module.
Request a licence
If you would like to try Sesam.Starter, please continue to the Request a licence page.