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Special
Interest Group Meetings
 LUSAS User Group
UK Civil/Bridge SIG Meeting 2003
Held on Wednesday 8th October 2003
Another full-house of 85
delegates attended this year's excellent Special Interest Group Meeting
for Civil / Bridge users at the Institution of Structural Engineers in
London.
Delegates from the UK,
Ireland, Scotland, Finland, Israel
, Australia, Korea, Finland, Italy, Czech Republic, Malaysia, and
Japan were present to see an interesting and varied range of user
and LUSAS staff presentations at the event.
Selected files from LUSAS
presentations are available
for download. See below for details. (Note that downloads are held in the LUSAS
user area and require a username and password to be entered. Your
in-house LUSAS contact should be able to supply you with this).
LUSAS user presentations
showed:
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The
analysis and design of a low rise steel bowstring arch bridge - Roughan
& O'Donovan
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Numerical
analyses of bridge piers under randomly generated artificial
earthquake-like ground motions - University of Birmingham
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The
design of an innovative footbridge - Buro Happold Consulting
Engineers
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Options
for strengthening
a complex 100 year old bridge deck to carry loading to current
standards - Tony Gee & Partners
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A steel finger joint
connection for a Santiago Calatrava-designed tower block in Sweden / Modelling and analysis of
post-tensioned concrete silos / Seismic design checking of
viscous damped structures to EC8 - Consultancy Services
LUSAS staff presentations
demonstrated:
Technical overview of
recent Civil and Bridge developments
Post-tensioning with LUSAS
(download link will be provided here soon)
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Geotechnical
modelling with LUSAS
Covering:
Plane Strain tests on
London Clay
- drained simulation
- unconsolidated undrained simulation
- consolidated undrained simulation
One dimensional consolidation
Slope stability analysis
Footing analysis
- drained, undrained, and consolidation
Retaining wall analysis
Download
geotechnical model descriptions and LUSAS command files (314k) *
Download
PowerPoint presentation data and AVI file (1.8Mb) *
Download
PowerPoint presentation and Hand-out (780k) *
Download
PowerPoint presentation and LUSAS command files. (123k) *
* Downloads are held in the LUSAS
user area and require a username and password to be entered. Your
in-house LUSAS contact should be able to supply you with this.
The meeting provided all
delegates with an excellent forum to:
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Discuss LUSAS topics of
particular interest
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Discuss any current
problems
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Exchange 'tips and
techniques' with other LUSAS users
If you didn't attend this
year we hope you can join us next time.
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