SCT_MC

SMALL CRAFT. - SCANTLINGS

International ISO Standard 12215-5 : 2019

CHAPTER Pag.

Introduction 1
Scantlings 3
Data Introduction 4
Getting Help 5
Defining the Structure 6
Work procedure 9
Materials Definition 11
Outputs in MS Word 12

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INTRODUCTION

SCT_MC is an application that tries to help the designer with scantling of small craft, according the
ISO Standard 12215-5 : 2019, inside the scope defined by this standard.

The initial window of the application looks as follow :

It is a window of the called type “MDI” (multiple document interface), which acts as a container for several
other windows, called secondary windows, than the User can open along the same working session.

This window has its own heading menus , as we will see later, but, when one of the secondary windows
becomes the “active window”, the main window will only show the secondary window menus.

For this reason, in order to access to the MDI window’s menus, any other active windows must be closed.

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HEADER’S MENUS

Files menu
New Study: opens a secondary Windows to get the directory,
identification and any other data for the new study.

Open Existing Projects : opens a dialog box with the Windows

Explorer directory tree, to allow the designer to look for any
existing project, and load its data.

Save As : the user is asked for the new name and the
current project will be saved with that name, the program
creating the necessary folders.

Last projects : shows up to the 5 last projects we have been

dealing with. By clicking on its name, the application will load its
data and the window “Scantlings” will be open.

Delete History : deletes the list (not the projects) with the last
used projects.

Exit . Closes the application

Preferences menu
Language : allows the User to select
the language to be used by the
application.

Always start with Scantlings : when

checked this option, the window
“Scantlings” will automatically be shown
when starting a new work session.

Change Window Picture : allows to select a new image for the Background of the MDI window.

Delete Window Picture : no image will appear

REMARK : Options selected with the menu “Preferences” are saved by the application, that will
remember them while not further changes.

The window “Scantlings” has its own menu “Preferences”, that IS DIFFERENT THAN the one we have
just described, allowing the User to select specific preferences for working in scantlings.

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Other modules in menu

Accesses calculation modules of the
application:

Materials : Open the window to work, modify

or add, materials.

Scantlings : Opens the window to work with

scantlings properly.

Structural arrangements …. (ISO 12215-6) :

opens the specific module for longitudinal
strength studies, protective keel, etc.

Rudders (ISO 12215-8) : rudders calculation

Welding : welding calculation for all the

structure elements, according ISO 12215-6.

Mast & Rigging : All calculations related to

the rigging. This module is sold
separately from SCT_MC, but once
installed, both applications are integrated.

Calculation of Beams : opens the modulus

to calculate frames and continuous beams.

Help menu

o SCT_MC User Manual in pdf format.

o Open the window to start the

application’s activation process.

o SCT_MC , dealer and developer data

There may be some incompatibility with the pdf file reader. Therefore the help files are also in
.doc format and can be opened with MS Word.

All help files are stored in the folder .... SCT_MC \ Files \ AyudasSCTEn

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SCANTLINGS

The window to work with scantlings looks like in the image, with two differentiate areas :

 The left one shows all the elements forming the structure of the ship.

 The right hand area relates the properties of any of the precedent elements, as well as the results
when applying them the ISO Standard 12215-5 : 2019.

Clicking with the left button of the mouse over any one of the nodes in the left tree, the table in the right
side will show its properties.
Selecting any element in the window with the mouse left
button and, then, clicking on the right button, several pop-
up menus will appear, helping the User in some tasks as :

 Entering new data

 Modifying existing data
 Adding elements
 Explanations about required data : menu “What is
this?” (see image)
 Etc.

The total amount of nodes, elements, in the left hand tree is unlimited. However, as every node needs to
be linked to a table with its properties, the memory used can be very high and calculations speed may be
affected.

Within a complex project the number of nodes can become very high. That’s why, in order to avoid
confusion, the selected node will appear with the mark so that we can know that the properties in the
right hand table are its properties.

On the other hand, if no node is marked with that icon, and we ask the application to do any calculation,
we could get improper or not coherent results.

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DATA INTRODUCTION

The introduction of data, an always convoluted task in this kind of studies, has been fully simplified.
Just we need to click, with the mouse left button, over the row which data we need to introduce :

 In many cases, there is no other solution that do it manually. By clicking on the specific row, the
box will change its color and format. Now we can introduce or change the data.

The old data

will be shown
here

 When possible, SCT_MC opens several dropdown boxes where we just need to select the
relevant option.

Units used by the Standard are not fully homogeneous. For example :
 The major (minor) dimension for a bulkhead’s panel must be in millimeters, while the load height
for it has to be given in meters.
 The stiffeners spacing for a panel is given in millimeters, while its distance from the App is to be
given in meters.
 Etc.
For this reason, the label in the left of the text box, shows not only the item to be introduced but also its
correct units.

Besides of these facilities, not all the boxes in the table are to be fulfilled by the User, either because they
are not necessary for the calculation or because the application will deduce them from other previously
given data.
By instance, once introduced the waterline length, in fully loaded condition, and the vessel speed, SCT
will calculate the coefficient V/ and will deduce if the ship is “Displacement” or “Planning” type. The
boxes for these elements are marked with “---“ : we don’t need to fulfill them.

In other cases, the element in the table (that is extracted from a generic template) is not applicable to the
current item. The application, then, will write “n.a.” in its box : not applicable.

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GETTING HELP

There are two ways to get help :

1. At the top left of the window, among several other menus, is the one
labelled Help.

By clicking on it, a secondary window will appear with a list with the
different available help topics.

Pressing in the left area, over the required item, the right hand area will show appropriate
explanations. They are, usually, existing figures in the ISO Standard 12215-5.

2. Pressing in the main window over a node, label or box, firstly with the mouse left button and,
then, with the right button, the What is This? pop-up menu will appear.

Clicking on it, appropriate explanations will be shown to the User. Sometimes the application will
indicate that does not exist such explanation, well because it is obvious or because we just have
to choose among the possibilities listed in a dropdown box, making unnecessary more details.

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DEFINING THE STRUCTURE

The application shows a tree, similar to the one in the figure, with
the different areas that a generic new project needs.

We have, also, to define the plates an stringers needed to build

any element of the structure..

And, of course, we need some general data defining the overall

ship.

In this area, left part of the program’s window, we don’t need to

write anything. Everything works by means of pop-up menus
appearing when selecting a node and clicking, then, the right
button of the mouse.

It is possible to add or delete elements, or change their names.

Every AREA can have as many elements, with

different designations, as we consider necessary to
fully define the ship’s structure and fully study its
possible problems (see image) .

First thing the application will do, when trying to add a

new element, is asking us for a name for the item, so to
give it an unequivocal identification.

Every possible element is considered to be formed by a

plate panel, with transversal and longitudinal stiffeners
(vertical and horizontal for vertical elements of the
structure).

Although some of them will not be necessary, it does

not matter as we will not fill in the boxes in the table and
no calculations will be performed about them.

Those panels and stringers must be one of the

previously defined in the upper part of the nodes tree,
called “Plates and Stiffeners”.

Example : The bottom panel Central will be formed by

the Hand laminated of 8 mm thick and as stringers we’ll
use the Omega de 60x50x150, for frames, and Omega
de 40x40x60, for longitudinal.

We will see later how to assign a plate or a stiffeners to

each element in the structure.

In turn, when defining plates and stiffeners, we will have

to specify the material they are made with, as well as
the thickness, in case of plates.

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When PRF materials, SCT_MC calculates the thickness and other properties, depending on the mass
content of fiber we have indicated for each layer.

When defining stiffeners we have to indicate the profile type : flat bar, bulb bar, composed “T”, omega
profile, etc. and to give the dimensions.

You also may apply "hybrid" materials, combination

of

o Glass / Carbon,
o Glass / aramid or
o Carbon / Aramid

When working with a plate, the following window will

be shown :

There you need to give an ID for the plate, select its

material

and then press Validate

Initially cells in white do not contains any data and they have to be filled in, as previously indicated, acting
over the boxes in grey color, mouse left button and/or right button.

For homogeneous materials we need to give the thickness but, when PRF materials the application will
include several additional rows, to introduce the materials of each of the layers that make up the laminate
of this plate or stiffener.

1. Pick the corresponding row with the left mouse button..

2. Act over the right mouse button : a pop-up menu will appear and
we will select the option “Add laminate”.

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3. Over the selected row will appear a dropdown box with several
available elements.

4. Selecting one of then it will be incorporated in the actual row.

And so on till complete all the plies needed for the laminate
.
When selecting a hybrid material for a plate, the dropdown
list above will show elements of the two materials forming the
hybrid

There exists the option of Copy a Previous Combination

combination in a previous panel .

 When choosing this option, a dropdown box appears

with the list of existing panels.

 Selecting one of them, its mats-rovs will be copied in

the actual table, starting with the row we have picked-
up first (see point 1)

Once this has be done, we press the button

Physical properties of the current plate will be calculated and the application will write them in the boxes
of the table, without any additional action from our side. These properties will be taken into account at the
moment of analyze the panels forming the structure.

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Working with a stiffener the procedure is very similar

The program presents a new window in which, in addition to identifying the stiffener and determining its
material, we can choose the type of profile that we need to use.

Depending on the type chosen, we will have to give the dimensions of its elements.

Once all this is done, press "Validate"

When dealing with PRF, the composition for the laminate has to be indicated.
In the case of "top hat" type reinforcements, it is
possible to add extra layers only in the crown,
which is the area where the stress due to bending
will reach its highest value. This makes it possible
to reinforce the crown without adding material, not
very efficient, to the "legs" of the reinforcement.

To do this, the option "... only crown" appears in

the dropdown box for each of the various layers
that form the laminate of the reinforcement.
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WORKING PROCEDURE

As it can be deduct from the precedent, the normal working procedure would be as follow :

1. DEFINITION

 Introduction of the general data for the boat

 Determine the composition of each plate or stiffener that we are going to use for the panels or
reinforcements of the structure.
 Delimit each of the well-differentiated areas into which the boat is divided.
 In each area we will select one or more panels, with their corresponding reinforcements, to be studied.
 Assign a plate and specific reinforcements to the elements that make up and limit each panel..

2.- CALCULATION
Once all dimensions have been defined as well as the
position of every element in the structure, the application will
deduce the real properties for everyone, and comparing
them with the ISO Standard 12215.-5 requirements.
These requirements will appear on the fourth column of the
table, marking with red color those properties below the
requirements.

3.- CHECK
Looking at the results we can decide the convenience or not of modifying elements properties, spacing of
stiffeners, the plate assigned to each panel, etc

4.- STACK ANALYSIS

When the "Enhanced" analysis method has been selected,
the stress analysis must be carried out in each layer of the
laminate to verify that, in none of them, the design stresses
of the material of that layer are exceeded.

The application carries out this task with when clicking on the
toolbars button illustrated in annexed figure. Note that this study
is only possible if it has previously been carried out point #2.

On a template, specially prepared for this purpose in MS

Excel, and fully similar to the one showed in the ISO Standard 12215-5:2019 , will be arranged the
results of the analysis.

Any amount of analysis can be performed and all of them will be added into a single Excel file.

5.- SAVE STUDY

It is very convenient to save work with some

frequency in order to don not loose any one
of the calculations.
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6.- OUTPUTS
The button in the toolbar of the
Scantling window creates a
document in MS Word with the
data introduced for the study, the
table properties for each element
as well as the results for them.

Writing in Word is a slow procedure

and, given that the structure may
have a lot of components, it may
last several minutes.

In the calculations the application uses several

pressures and coefficients that can be displayed
in a separate window, if we click on the figure.

The final report with results in MS Word also

displays these values.

STACK ANALYSIS The ply analysis for each panel or stiffener are shown directly in an Excel Work Sheet
specifically prepared for this study.

You can access the existing studies using the button

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DEFINITION OF MATERIALS

This issue deserves a separate chapter and, in fact, the application has a
specific window to deal with them. Use the header menu “Materials”.

On the window’s left part, a nodes

tree shows all the materials existing
in the actual SCT_MC’s data base.

The table on the right part shows the

physical or mechanical properties for
the specific material selected on the
nodes tree.

SCT_MC incorporates a
collection of materials that will
probably be enough for most of the
options we will need in our projects.

If an specific material were not

found, one could use a similar one
from those existing in the database or
incorporate a new material to it.

When adding a new material, it is necessary to introduce all its mechanical properties. In the case of PRF,
however, you only need to enter a few characteristics and the application will calculate the mechanical
properties, based on the formulas in Annex C of ISO 12215-5: 2019. The application colors the cells that must
be filled in by the user.

In this, and in other cases, cells with the text "---" appear. That means that these data, although necessary,
should not be filled in by the User, but rather the application will take care of it. However, if the User wishes to
enter a specific value by hand, they can do so, although it is not recommended.
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VERY IMPORTANT NOTE

The SCT_MC database contains all the materials (steel, aluminum and wood) indicated in ISO
12215-5: 2019, with the physical and mechanical properties indicated there.

Regarding the properties of fiberglass and carbon materials, they have been calculated in
accordance with the indications and formulas of ANNEX C of ISO 12215-5: 2019.

For Aramid fibers, the formulas of ISO 12215-5: 2008 have been used.

Following the new version of the standard, to determine the properties of a laminate, some
variables that were not considered in the previous standard must be taken into account:

 properties of the matrix used.

 overal procedure for scantling determination (replaces the "Evaluation Level" of the
previous version.

 Building quality, which aims to take into account the builder's expertise and quality.

The properties of the laminates in the plates section are calculated with certain values for these
parameters. In this way the designer can get an idea of the resistance of the materials that he is
going to use.

It may happen, however, that, when assigning these materials to a specific panel or reinforcement,
those variables are different from those initially foreseen. Or it may happen that elements that use
the same laminate scheme have different values of these variables.

For this reason, when assigning, for example, a plate to a certain panel, the three variables for that
specific case must be specified again. According to them, SCT_MC will calculate and apply the
new mechanical properties deduced from the new variables.
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FINAL REPORT SAMPLE IN MS WORD

Project 001
03/03/2012
CONTENTS

GENERAL 4
PLATES 5
hand lay up, 8.7 mm thick 5
plate 5.2 mm thick 6
Sandwich 30 mm 7
plywood 24 mm 8
STIFFENERS 9
Glass Rectangular 50x150 9
Omega profile 60x50x140 10
T profile, 70x7 45x10 11
Bulwark Stiffener 40x30x40 12
Solid Wood 50x50x50 13
Omega 40x40x60 14
Bulb Bar 60x6 15
Omega 40x30x40 16
Flat Bar 200x14 17
BOTTON 18
Stern panelbotton 18
Stern frmbotton 19
Stern longbotton 20
SIDE 21
Stern panelside 21
Stern frmside 22
Stern longside 23
DECKS 24
Main Deck paneldeck 24
Main Deck frmdeck 25
Main Deck longdeck 26
Fore Castle Deck paneldeck 27
Fore Castle Deck frmdeck 28
Fore Castle Deck longdeck 29
BULWARK 30
Stern panelbulwark 30
Stern frmbulwark 31
SUPERSTRUCTURE 32
Passage House panelsuperstructure 32
Passage House frmsuperstructure 33
Passage House longsuperstructure 34
Deck House Front panelsuperstructure 35
Deck House Front frmsuperstructure 36
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IMPORTANT NOTE
Weights indicated for laminates in tables below are dry fibre weights.
It is necessary to have practical data about how much weights per sqm, a laminate with an X% of fibre.
On average, it can be said that for a laminate with a 40% in mass of fibre they are necessary about 650
gr/m2 of fibre,for every mm in laminate thickness, when using a “mat”, and about 1000 gr/m2 when
using “roving".
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GENERAL
Builder
Building N.
Type of Hull Mono Hull
Design category A "ocean"
Power or Sail Motor
Length of the Hull m 24
Length of the fully loaded waterline at mLDC m 23.56
Beam of the hull m 5.8
Beam of the fully loaded waterline at mLDC m 5.75
Chine beam m 5.5
Depth m 2.6
Draugth at mLDC (TC) m 1.95
Maximum speed at mLDC knots 16
v/SQR(Lwl) Coefficient 3.296
Operating mode Displacement
Loaded displacement mass of the craft kg 68500
Deadrise angle at 0,4 LWL forward of its aft end º 25
Water specific gravity kg/m3 1025
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PLATES
hand lay up, 8.7 mm thick
Plate's material Glass
laminated kind of ply Mat (WR), Manual lay-up

moulding Type Open mould simple surface

Evaluation Level (EL) of mechanical properties EL-b

mass content of fibre % 40.7
Total Thickness mm 9.217
Total Weight kg/m2 5.75
MATS & ROVINGS
MAT 450
ROV 800
800RV-450M
1700RV-300M
ROV 800
MAT 450
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STIFFENERS
Glass Rectangular 50x150
User defined, rectangular
Type of Stiffener
Stiffener's Material Glass
Mat lay-up (WR) by hand by contact
laminated kind of ply
Glass content in mass % 30
Open mould simple surface
Moulding Type
Evaluation Level (EL) of mechanical properties EL-b
Web Depth mm 150
Base Width of the Profile mm 50
Web Thickness mm 5.254
Flange Thickness mm 8.777
Neutral Axis cm 7.5
Shear Section Area cm2 7.88
Minimal value for First Momento of area cm3 78.219
Second Moment of area cm4 586.6425
Weight or the Stiffener kg/ml 4.75
MATS & ROVINGS
MAT 300
MAT 450
MAT 600
800RV-450M (only on crown)
800RV-450M (only on crown)
MAT 600
MAT 300
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BOTTON
Stern : panelbotton Units Values given by the User As per ISO 12215-5

hand lay up, 8.7 mm thick

Panel's Composition
Panel's Material Glass
Mass content of glass % 40.7
Thickness mm 9.217 7.894 (formula 35)
Deflection mm
Shorter dimension of plate panel mm 410
Longer dimension of plate panel mm 705
Design pressure kN/m2 --- 70.378
Flexural Moment along "b" direction N/mm/mm 948.377
Shear stress at b/2 N/mm 12.869
Distance of mid panel from of aft end of LWL m 3.2
Minimun dry fibre mass for the lay-up kg/m2 3.963 3.39
Panel's weight kg/m2 5.75

COEFFICIENTS AND PRESSURES USED IN THE CALCULATIONS

kDC = 1
nCG = 3
kAR = 1
kL = 0.614
PBMD base = 114.621
PBM MIN = 38.946
PBMD = 70.378
k2 = 0.481
k3 = 0.026
kC = 1
kSHC = 0.446
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SIDE
Stern : frmside Units Values given by the User As per ISO 12215-5

Stiffener Type Omega 40x40x60

Stiffener's Material Glass
Open mould simple surface
Stiffener's Mould
Glass content in mass % 30
attached to hull or panel
Arrangement of the Stiffener
Crown of a curved stiffener mm
Unsupported span of stiffener or frame mm 1000
Stiffeners spacing mm 750
Effective extent of plating connected to the stiffener mm --- 215.02
Design pressure kN/m2 --- 38.817
Bending Moment Nm ---
Neutral Axis cm 1.47
Shear area, Stiffener + Attached Plate cm2 24.28 7.043
First moment of area (Wx) cm3 123.592 57.082
Second moment of area (Ix) cm4 181.5218 23.6541
Stiffener's weight + attached `plate kg/ml 12.769
Height of stiffener's midpoint above WL m 1
Distance of mid stiffener from of aft end of LWL m 2

COEFFICIENTS AND PRESSURES USED IN THE CALCULATIONS

kDC = 1
nCG = 3
kAR = 0.593
kL = 0.572
kZ = 0.998
PDM base = 22.846
PSM MIN = 21.204
PSMP =0 .0155
kCS = 1
kSA = 7.5