LUSAS User Group Meeting
and Structural and Bridge
Application Training Course
Helsinki,
Finland, 16 and 17-18
March 2010
A total of 25
delegates attended the LUSAS Finland User Group Meeting
followed by a two-day LUSAS for Structural and Bridge Applications Training
Course at
AEL, Kaarnatie, 00410, Helsinki, Finland.
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 LUSAS
Finland User Group Meeting - 16 March 2010 |
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At this one-day user
group meeting, presentations were given on the latest facilities
and key features in LUSAS version 14.4 and 14.5 that can be of use
to Finnish engineers for structural and bridge analysis in their design office or university.
Topics covered:
- 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
- User
Results Processing in LUSAS 14.4
- CAD
Import/Export and Solid Modelling/Meshing in LUSAS
- Specific
Ground Engineering facilities
- Customisation
of the LUSAS User Interface using dialogs / toolbars and
basic scripting routines.
Delegates at the LUSAS
Finland User Group Meeting
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 LUSAS
for Structural and Bridge Applications (Introduction) Training
Course
17 and 18 March 2010 |
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 This
two-day course covered getting started with a brief overview of LUSAS and then
proceeded to cover in detail the modelling and analysis options
available for creating beam models, modelling flat slabs, composite
construction, 3D shell modelling, before moving on to buckling
analysis, soli structure interaction and staged construction
modelling.
Day
1: Structural and bridge
application modelling Topics
covered:
- Getting
more out of beam models: FE concepts, Model creation,
analysis and results from a 2D franme model
- Flat slabs and 3D modelling:
Line elements & plate elements, Modelling a flat slab, Flat slab example,
Creating 3D geometry, 3D shell elements, 3D girder example.
- 3D modelling considerations:
Beam & slab structures, Example (mixed elements), 3D modelling,
Eigenvalue buckling, Example (plate girder buckling)
Day 2: Advanced
structural and bridge application modelling
Topics covered:
- Introduction to modelling 3D
shell structures: Creating 3D geometry, 3D elements, The modelling process,
Buckling analyses
- Soil structure interaction:
Introduction, Modulus of subgrade reaction (Winkler springs), Example: footing on springs,
Continuum analyses, Example: footing using 2D HILE continuum, More advanced functions & examples
- Staged construction modelling:
Requirements and Typical examples, Facilities available, Birth & death,
Introduction or removal of supports, Viscous (creep) time-dependent analysis,
Example: staged construction with creep, Example: Retaining wall (excavation & NL soil)
Steve Rhodes of LUSAS
talking to delegates on the LUSAS for Structural and Bridge
Applications training course
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 The
LUSAS Finland User Group and Training event was arranged and
organised by Mr Pertti Rytky,
Managing Director, CIMERA OY
with the assistance of Philip Icke,
European Regional Manager, LUSAS
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