You have SACS open every single day.

You follow whatever your senior tells you step by step. You update load cases. You tweak member properties. You run the analysis when someone sets it up for you.

But the moment your senior is not there, or something goes differently from what you have seen before, you are completely lost.

You have watched YouTube tutorials. You took notes and tried to replicate the steps. It worked until your project differed from the tutorial in any way. Then the knowledge collapsed entirely.

You have asked your seniors. They gave you quick answers that partially solved the immediate problem but explained nothing about the underlying principle. And you stopped asking because asking too often draws the wrong kind of attention.

You may have even paid for a course on Udemy. It covered the basics, showed a clean simplified model, and by the end you felt like you had learned something. Then you went back to your actual project and realised the gap was exactly as large as before.

This SACS class is not another collection of isolated tutorials. It is the complete analysis workflow, from model setup to final deliverable, taught the way a senior engineer would teach you if they had ten weeks, real project scenarios, and the patience to explain the reasoning behind every single step.

By the end, you will not just use SACS. You will think in SACS.

COURSE FORMAT

• Mode: Online (Microsoft Teams)
• Schedule: Monday, Wednesday & Friday
• Start Date: April 20, 2026
• Time: 09:00 PM to 10:30 PM IST
• Who this is for: Offshore structural engineers with 1-2 years of experience who can operate SACS but cannot independently deliver. Or someone who starts exloring the offshore engineering domain.

WHY THIS INTERMEDIATE LEVEL CLASS IS DIFFERENT

You have tried tutorials. They taught you keystrokes, not engineering reasoning.

YouTube videos and generic courses show you what buttons to click. They do not show you why the analysis is structured the way it is, what code clause governs the check being run, or what a failing result means for the structural decision that follows.

You have asked seniors. Their knowledge was never structured into anything teachable.

Your seniors learned SACS over fifteen years of project work through experiential accumulation. When you ask a question, you get a quick answer that patches the immediate problem. You do not get the mental model that connects the pieces.

This itermediate level class gives you the one thing that actually builds confidence: one complete experience.

Not ten topics covered shallowly. Not isolated steps from disconnected tutorials. One full project workflow, covered deeply, with the engineering reasoning explained at every step.

You will build models from scratch. You will apply real loading conditions. You will run analyses, interpret results against the relevant codes, and produce technically defensible deliverables. The way it is done on real projects.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN (Full Curriculum)

Foundations and Modelling

Introduction to Offshore Structures and SACS Overview

• Offshore and subsea structure types, project lifecycle, and where SACS fits
• SACS software capabilities, program architecture, and interface navigation

Jacket Structures (Full Modelling and Analysis)

Modelling and Analysing Offshore Jacket Structures

• Modelling jacket using Structural Wizard
• Deck geometry modelling
• Load application using LOAD and WEIGHT features
• Setting up the analysis file, running static analysis, and post-processing results

Joint Can Analysis

• Joint can parameters and file preparation
• Result interpretation and engineering judgment

Pre-Service Analysis

• Lifting analysis
• Loadout analysis
• Transportation analysis with TOW module (Noble Denton guidelines, motion criteria, seafastening checks)
• Launching, floatation, and upending

Class By: Suryalal