Marine Cable Design Platform Automates Multi-Field Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current marine cable design and analysis processes require multiple dedicated software tools, leading to inefficient data interaction and increased design cycles due to differing input formats and error-prone data transformation, hindering the integration and automation of the design process.
Innovation Solution
A multifunctional integrated software development platform for marine cables, utilizing a cloud database and data-driven technology, which includes a pre-processing module, integrated software analysis module, performance verification module, and post-processing module to automate data interaction, perform multi-field coupling analysis, and enable intelligent and rapid design optimization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple dedicated software tools are used for marine cable design and analysis, then comprehensive analysis capabilities are achieved, but data interaction efficiency deteriorates and design cycle increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple dedicated software tools (AutoCAD, UFlex, CableCAD, Orcaflex, Riflex) into a single integrated platform that provides comprehensive marine cable design and analysis capabilities. The system combines cross-sectional design, mechanical property analysis, and hydrodynamic response analysis in one unified environment, eliminating the need to switch between multiple standalone applications and thereby improving data interaction efficiency while maintaining all required analysis functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated software platform is designed to perform multiple functions that previously required separate dedicated tools. It universally handles cross-sectional design, mechanical calibration, hydrodynamic analysis, and automated iteration processes within a single system, allowing users to complete the entire marine cable design workflow without leaving the platform, thus resolving the contradiction between comprehensive capabilities and efficient data interaction.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional design tools are used for data interaction, then software compatibility is maintained, but automation capability deteriorates and design process integration is hindered
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary data management layer that facilitates automated data interaction between different analysis modules. This intermediary system uses standardized data formats and automated conversion protocols to enable seamless data exchange between cross-sectional design, mechanical analysis, and hydrodynamic analysis components, thereby achieving both software compatibility and high-level automation within the integrated platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs parameter-based data representation that automatically adapts to different analysis requirements. By using standardized parameter formats that can be automatically converted and transmitted between modules, the platform maintains compatibility with various analysis types while enabling automated workflow execution, thus resolving the contradiction between compatibility and automation.
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AI summary
A marine cable multifunctional integrated software development system, a method, and a storage medium. The marine cable multifunctional integrated software development system includes a pre-processing module, an integrated software analysis module, a performance verification module, a post-processing module, and a data-driven module based on a cloud database. The method includes: inputting or calling engineering basic data, constructing and arranging structural elements, completing the cross-section design of the marine cable, carrying out the optimization design on the cable section layout and line type based on a section performance analysis result, and then carrying out the safety check; storing and reading key data in the system, and predicting and designing a cable section layout mode and a cable line type structure rapidly and intelligently; and carrying out visual display and export on a system calculation result.