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certification and engineering within aquaculture


















                                                                            AQUASTRUCTURES AS
                                                                            Kjøpmannsgata 21,
                                                                            7013 Trondheim, Norway
                                                                            Email: mail@aquastructures.no
                                                                            Tel: +47 73 83 17 47
                                                                            Website: www.aquastructures.no





                     Aquastructures is Norway’s leading certifi cation and engineering company within the aquaculture industry. The
                     company performs certifi cation of fi sh farming sites and products such as cages, nets, barges and mooring
                     components. Aquastructures has developed the AquaSim software and together with its engineers the company
                     ensures a safe and cost effective design of mooring, pens and barges, customized to the customers need.



                     Certifi cation According          AquaSim Software                 Engineering Services
                     to the NYTEK-regulation &        AquaSim is a time-domain FEA (Finite   Aquastructures’ engineering team carries out
                     Norwegian Standard NS 9415       Element Analysis) software owned and   both local and global analyses, which validate
                     Aquastructures certifi es fi sh farm facilities   developed by Aquastructures. AquaSim   the total, structural strength of the system as
                     and manufacturers/suppliers comprised by   calculates the interaction between stiff and   well as single components and critical details.
                     the NYTEK regulation. This includes plastic   fl exible components of different materials,   Analyses can be performed individually
                     and steel cages, feeding barges, nets and   cross sections and elasticity, exposed to   on nets, mooring systems, barges, cages,
                     mooring components, as well as other related   static and hydrodynamic loads such as wind,   alternatively as a system, containing the
                     products and equipment.          current and waves. AquaSim is an ideal   relevant components simultaneously. The
                     Certifi ed inspectors and engineers perform   software tool for coupled analysis of larger   analyses satisfy applicable standards and
                     inspections of products and fi sh farm   systems combining mooring lines, membrane   regulations.
                     systems, to verify compliance with technical   and net structures, fl exible fl oatation systems
                     standards and regulations.       and stiff superstructures. AquaSim is used by
                                                      suppliers and engineers worldwide.


























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