Viking - All Things Ship Structures

Viking provides maritime solutions for conventional and specialized structural design, analysis, and verification of ships and offshore assets. We create highest-quality structures while reducing the cost of construction and maintenance. We employ the same organized software and workflow process across our offices, resulting in high-quality output delivered in a fast and reliable time frame.

Viking was founded in 2000 to operate in shipbuilding industries and serve military and naval vessel shipbuilders and designers, commercial shipowners and ship operators, and offshore oil and gas companies. Our experience, coupled with the consistent application and development of innovative computer programs, helps our engineering teams make sound and consistent decisions about our clients’ ships and offshore assets. Analyses are based on classical design rules and advanced tools for structural modeling, loading, and assessing conventional and high-speed monohull and multihull vessels.

We are privileged to work with many different clients in the marine industry, including the US Navy, the US Coast Guard, NASA, the Military Sealift Command, oil and gas companies, and shipbuilders and ship operators. We also provide structural design and analysis services to owners and builders of commercial ships, including inland and oceangoing barges, heated cargo barges, tankers, container ships, and cruise ships.

Viking is composed of experienced mechanical engineers, naval architects, marine engineers, civil engineers, software developers, and business professionals.

Our computer programs and team spirit are named after figures in Nordic mythology. This is in line with our Viking traditions that have endured for more than a thousand years:

SAGA (Structural Assessment Graphical Application) is a computerized tale of “structural events” created, assessed, and safeguarded for current and future learning. It is just like the Viking-era sagas that are preserved to this day,
ODIN (Optimum Design Integration Network) is named after the Viking leader Odin who sends out his pair of ravens, Hugin (Old Norse for “thought”) and Munin (Old Norse for “mind”), all over the world to gather information. In our case, structural computing solutions created by our network of computers and team members are being monitored by Odin to collect and present data and to learn from the data to make sound decisions,
THOR, son of Odin and Fyorgyn, is the most powerful of all to take action, going beyond boundaries, and leading teams. Each of our Viking team members, like Thor, embodies great strength of character, indispensable leadership qualities, and an ability to be a strong team player. These are the true qualities of Vikings at all times – then and now.

Capabilities

We do all types of structural design and analysis for conventional ship, multihull, and high-speed vessel ship structures. These include:

FEA Strength, Fatigue, & Vibration Assessments”
Repair & Reinforcement Solutions
Corrosion & Steel Renewal Assessment
Ship Life Extension
Classification Society Interface
Forensic Analysis
Third-Party Verification of Entire Hulls & Foundations

We also design various foundation types, including:

Moon Pools
Internal Turret Support Structures
Topsides Support Structures
Mooring Support Structures
Riser Support Structures
Flare Tower Support Structures
Crane Support Structures
A-Frames & Supports
Towing Support Structures
Bilge Keels
Piping Stress & Support Structures
Pad Eyes & Support Structures

The analysis types we typically perform include:

Trim & Stability Intact & Damaged Analysis
Hydrodynamic Analysis
Motions & Acceleration Prediction
Slamming Analysis
Whipping Analysis
Statistical Data Processing of Wave Responses
Short- & Long-Term Calculation of Loads on Ships
Linear & Nonlinear FEA
FEA-Based Yielding & Buckling Assessment
Fatigue & Crack Propagation Analysis
Structural Vibration & Noise Analysis
3D Corrosion Mapping to FEA Models
Collision & Blast Nonlinear FEA Response Analysis

Software

We use best-in-class software, including these industry and in-house programs:

ABS ISE & TSA
ABS SafeHull
AutoPIPE
Femap
HECSALV
Houdini
Maya
NASTRAN
Nauticus
ODIN
OrcaFlex
SAGA
Sestra
Stofat
StruCad
VRML
Wadam
Wasim
ABS Eagle FPSO ISE & TSA
ABS SEAS & PRECAL
Bureau Veritas (BV) VeriSTAR

Clients

Over the years, we have enjoyed working on exciting structural projects with our clients. They include shipowners, ship operators, and shipbuilders in the oil and gas and commercial industries, as well as the US Navy and Coast Guard.