ANSYS CivilFEM Bridge Webinar P t R B tt - CAE Associates

81 Pages·2009·5.69 MB·English

ANSYS CivilFEM Bridge Webinar
PPetter RR. BBarretttt, MM.SS.CC.EE., PP.EE.
© 2009 CAE Associates
ANSYS + CivilFEM
Challenges of Bridge Engineers today:
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Increase Construction efficiency
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Design and Build to Save Material Costs
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Extend the life of existingg bridgges
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Better Empower a shrinking engineering workforce
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Develop more accurate representation of the structural response:
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• Nonlinear analysis and incremental construction are ANSYS/CivilFEM strengths
DDevellop auttomattedd anallyses tto save ddesiign ttiime
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Perform what if and design optimization tasks to create more effective
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use of construction materials
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CAE Associates – CivilFEM / ANSYS Partner
The world’s biggest and most sophisticated users of engineering
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simulation choose CAE Associates for consulting services, training and
software. e.g.
ABB, AREVA, Bechtel-Houston, GE (Nuclear, Energy, Aviation, GRC),
Seimens, UTC (Pratt & Whitney, Otis, Sikorsky), AECOM, Westinghouse, Parsons….
SSiince tthhe company’’s iincepttiion iin 11998811, we hhave speciialliizedd iin proviiddiing
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solutions to engineering problems using FEA and CFD technology.
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What is CivilFEM?
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traditional ANSYS developed by ANSYS’s Spain distributor
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INGECIBER- CivilFEM Developer / ANSYS Partner
Ingeciber S.A. is a CAE company and ANSYS Channel Partner
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ANSYS, Inc. and Ingeciber, S.A. have a long standing OEM
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Agreement and established a strategic alliance for FEA solutions
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ANSYS Today
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ANSYS + CivilFEM
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purpose structural analysis features of ANSYS (ISO-9001)
with high-end civil engineering-specific structural analysis
capabilities of CivilFEM (ISO-9001).
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Current CivilFEM Distributors
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CAE Associates, Inc.
» One of first 4 ANSYS
Channel Partners
 Since 1985…
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 Since 1981
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CAE Associates – CivilFEM / ANSYS Partner
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Custom Training of ANSYS and CivilFEM
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