Multiframe is one of Bentley’s products and a subset of its marine structure analysis software, specifically designed for the analysis, design, and simulation of marine tanks.
This software provides exceptional capabilities for static and dynamic analysis of aluminum and steel marine structures, and almost any type of offshore structure, for marine engineers. Bentley’s strategy has always focused on reducing costs, improving efficiency, and enhancing performance, which is no exception in this software.
The main goal of designing with Multiframe is the safety, stability, and long service life of marine structures.
Maintaining structures that are located in water is very difficult and costly, so with proper and correct design, many costs can be avoided.
Multiframe helps construction experts to design their tank structures in accordance with class requirements and optimize them for strength and weight.
It can be used for calculations of furnaces, decks, superstructures, and driving strength.
When designing a steel and aluminum tank, there is a wide range of structural analysis methods that can be used to evaluate the structural capacity of the tank and compliance with class requirements.
This software is a beam element-based system that allows you to quickly model and analyze the tank structure and perform static and dynamic analysis of its structural behavior.
It is an ideal complement for full finite element analysis and less accurate plate calculations.
Multiframe can be loaded into a geometric file of a structure or any other structural modeling system and then provides a wide range of tools to apply structural properties such as constraints, materials, and section shapes.
The facilities include creating a load family and then performing static or dynamic analysis.
Static results can be reviewed in terms of applied loads, stress, and deflection. Dynamic results include natural frequencies and mode shapes or more precise time-history results for varying load times.
