Resources

Orcina Brochure and Newsletters

Our software brochure (1.3 MB) has information about all our software products. A full technical description of OrcaFlex's features (163 KB) is also available.

We publish newsletters once or twice a year to coincide with major releases of OrcaFlex. Please contact us if you wish to be added to our mailing list for the newsletters. Previous newsletters can be downloaded in PDF form:

August 2009 (3.2 MB)
December 2008 (3.1 MB)
August 2007 (4.3 MB)
December 2006 (4.4 MB)
December 2005 (6.3 MB)
April 2005 (2.2 MB)
May 2004 (401 KB)
December 2003 (420 KB)
Spring 2003 (1024 KB)

OrcaFlex Validation

We publish a number of documents describing the validation of OrcaFlex which can be downloaded from the OrcaFlex Validation page.

Papers

The following published papers are available for download in PDF format:

• The non-linear hysteretic soil model in OrcaFlex is documented in Non-linear Hysteretic Seabed Model for Catenary Pipeline Contact (284 KB). This is a joint paper by Prof. Mark Randolph (Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, University of Western Australia), who developed the model, and Peter Quiggin (Orcina), who implemented the model in OrcaFlex. The paper was presented at the OMAE conference in June 2009 and is copyright ASME. As well as giving full details of the model, the paper also gives comparisons of the results of the model against laboratory and full scale measured results, and it also investigates the effect of the seabed model and some of its data on the fatigue life of an example steel catenary riser.
• The wake interference modelling that is implemented in OrcaFlex is described in Innovative 3-D Implementation of Riser Wake Interference Assessment (379 KB). This is collaborative work by Mason Wu and Jean-Francois Saint-Marcoux (both Acergy), Robert Blevins (Consultant) and Peter Quiggin (Orcina), and was presented at the ISOPE conference in July 2008.
• The bending hysteresis modelling facilities in OrcaFlex are documented in Time domain simulation of the 3D bending hysteresis behaviour of an unbonded flexible riser (206 KB). This is collaborative work by Zhimin Tan, Terry Sheldrake (both Wellstream) and Peter Quiggin (Orcina) that was presented at the OMAE conference in June 2007.

Demo Software

Demo versions for all of our software packages are available for download. These versions of the software are intended for use whilst evaluating the software. In addition the OrcaFlex demo version can be used as a viewer of existing simulation files. This can be particularly useful if you need to show system replays, results graphs etc. to a client who does not have an OrcaFlex licence.

OrcaFlex Demo
OrcaLay Demo
OrcaBend Demo

Software documentation

Full documentation for all of our software packages is available from the following pages:

OrcaFlex Documentation
OrcaLay Documentation
OrcaBend Documentation