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Our User Group R&D projects 

As a leading Classification society, Bureau Veritas’ Research & Development (R&D) network has touchpoints across the marine and offshore industry and other sectors. Through this network we participate in IACS research projects, R&D forums, user groups, and more.

The network projects we lead or join span a range of pressing issues for the maritime industry. These include the structural integrity and mooring of marine and offshore assets, while also investigating digital solutions and facilitating decarbonization.

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MOORING INTEGRITY USER GROUP

#Marine #MooringIntegrity
Led by SOFEC, the Mooring Integrity User Group is an R&D forum to facilitate the exchange of mooring system experience between operators, Class societies and engineers.
 

FOW COMITTEE PROJECT IN SOUTH KOREA

#MRE
The FOW Committee gathers together around 40 entities, including shipyards, classification societies, power companies and government research institutes.
 

MONITAS PHASE III

#StructuralIntegrity #StructuralHealthMonitoring #Offshore 
MARIN’s Monitas Group aims to develop the added value of advisory monitoring systems for integrity management in FPSOs. These include the prevention of unexpected failures, improved design, inspection maintenance and repair and operational advice.

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MONOCLE

#CompositeMaterials #Marine 
Launched by the IRT Jules Verne, the MONOCLE project aims to develop a methodology for digitally monitoring the infusion process for large parts of composite materials in shipping.

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MONIMOOR

#MooringIntegrity #Offshore 
Monimoor is a user group project lead by MARIN, Total Energies and Equinor. Its goal is to develop a design method for mooring systems subjected to squall loads, including a minimum requirement for squall data for mooring analysis.

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