DRE’s team of Naval Architects has extensive experience in failure evaluations, risk assessments, and design analyses for ships, boats, recreational watercraft, offshore structures, and onboard machinery/equipment. Services include traditional naval architecture and marine engineering topics -- stability, seakeeping, resistance, propulsion, planing, and maneuvering.  Additional areas of expertise include:

  • Accident reconstruction
  • Carbon monoxide exposure testing
  • Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
  • Electrical systems and equipment
  • Environmental condition characterization (e.g., wind, waves, tides, currents)
  • Fire and explosion cause and origin
  • Marine asset monitoring and integrity assessment
  • Navigation rules
  • Recreational vessel operation
  • On-water performance testing
  • Propeller strike modeling and analysis
  • Structural analyses (e.g., fracture mechanics, FEM, fatigue, composites, weld integrity)
  • Vessel mooring and cargo securement analyses
  • Vibration monitoring and analysis
  • Wave and wake measurement and characterization
  • Analysis of shipboard data (e.g., VDR, GPS, AIS, tank soundings, motions, loading conditions)