LUSAS User Group Meeting
and Structural and Bridge
Application Training Course
Helsinki,
Finland, 16 and 17-18
March 2010
A one-day LUSAS User Group Meeting
followed by a two-day LUSAS for Structural and Bridge Applications Training
Course will take place at
AEL, Kaarnatie, 00410, Helsinki, Finland on 16 and 17 - 18 March 2010.
Come along to see new features in LUSAS software for these
types of
applications and to discuss your general modelling and analysis issues
with LUSAS staff and fellow LUSAS users and engineers in an
informal environment. |
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 LUSAS
Finland User Group Meeting - 16 March 2010 |
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At this one-day user
group meeting, presentations will be given on the latest facilities
and key features in LUSAS version 14.3 and 14.4 that can be of use
to you for structural and bridge analysis in your design office or university.
Topics covered
are expected to include:
- General
New Features in LUSAS 14.4 and 14.5
- Vehicle
Load Optimisation including requirements for Eurocode
- Eurocode
implications for Steel Buckling analysis
- Techniques
for the analysis of Reinforced Concrete
- Post-Tensioning
and Time-Stage Techniques including new 14.4 tools
- Eurocode
Pedestrian Dynamics and Damper Systems
- New
Internal Results Processing in LUSAS 14.4 (this allows the
creation of users expressions for inclusion in reports and
contouring on models)
- CAD
Import/Export and Solid Modelling/Meshing in LUSAS
- Specific
Ground Engineering facilities
- Customisation
of the LUSAS User Interface. Creation of dialogs / toolbars and
basic scripting routines.
Come along to see the features in LUSAS software for these
applications and to discuss your general modelling and analysis issues
with myself, LUSAS staff and fellow LUSAS users and engineers in an
informal environment.
Attendance at the
LUSAS Finland User Group Meeting is FREE but requires you to register in advance to reserve your place.
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 LUSAS
for Structural and Bridge Applications (Introduction) Training
Course
17 and 18 March 2010 |
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 This
course is for engineers with little or no prior knowledge of LUSAS
or for those wanting to refresh their knowledge of carrying out
linear static and linear buckling analysis for structural and bridge
applications. The course covers getting started with LUSAS and then
proceeds to cover in detail the modelling and analysis options
available for creating beam models, modelling flat slabs, composite
construction, 3D modelling, and in correctly applying the various
types of bridge and structural loading available.
Day
1: Structural and bridge
application modelling Topics
covered will be selected from the following:
 About
LUSAS, finite element analysis, geometry, attributes, the LUSAS
treeview, section property calculators, viewing results,
documentation, sources of help
- Getting
more out of beam models,
tapering sections, discrete
loads and moving loads, temperature effects, settlement of
supports, enveloping and smart combinations, report writer,
obtaining natural frequencies
- Flat slabs, construction options/
classification, analysis options, isotropic slabs, plate models,
grillage analogy, orthotropic slabs, multicellular slabs, shear
key / box beam,
- Beam and slab construction,
construction options/ classification, analysis options, mixing
elements, ordinary beams with top slab, box beams with top slab
- 3D modelling, plate girder
modelling, CAD import, accuracy of FE analysis, interpolation
and mesh refinement, element shapes, mesh patterns, surface and
volume meshing, linear buckling analysis, basic checklist
- Bridge
loading, principles and use of the vehicle load optimisation
facility, wheel loads
Day 2: Advanced
structural and bridge application modelling
Topics covered will be selected from the following:
- Advanced analysis control
- Understanding
nonlinear analysis
- Geometric
nonlinear analysis
- Nonlinear materials
- Plate girder buckling
- Staged construction modelling
- Techniques available for complex
bridge construction
- Using LUSAS to model soil
structure interaction
Attendance at this Training Course
costs Euro 400 for attending one day
or Euro 700 for attending both days and requires you to register in
advance to reserve your place. Attendance
includes course handouts, use of hardware, and refreshments.
Discounts are available for academic institutions.
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Yes please, I'd like to register
to attend one or both of these events...
- If you or any of your colleagues
would like to attend either of these days please register your
interest by emailing either of us at the email addresses shown. We
will then reserve you a place and advise you further.
We hope you will be able to attend for what
should be a very informative user group meeting and a very useful
and detailed application
specific training course.
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Mr Pertti Rytky