CivilFEM: Extending ANSYS Capabilities in Civil Engineering

75 Pages·2011·3.27 MB·English

by  Herman Bernal

CivilFEM: Extending ANSYS
Capabilities in Civil Engineering
The state–of–the–art technology
for the civil engineering world
Dr. DimitriosSofialidis
Technical Manager
SimTec
ANSYS+CivilFEM
ANSYS+CivilFEM is the most advanced, comprehensive
and reputable finite element analysis and design software
package available for the structural engineering projects.
It combines the state-of-the art general purpose structural
analysis features of ANSYS (ISO-9001) with high-end civil
engineering-specific structural analysis capabilities of
CivilFEM, making it a unique and powerful tool for a wide
range of civil engineering projects.
As both programs are completely integrated, CivilFEM
supports all types of advanced analysis supported by
ANSYS running as a unique software and executable.
ANSYS is the finite element software used by 90 of the
TOP100 engineering firms in the world with 30 years of
constant growing (NASDAQ ANSS).
CivilFEM INTRO
CivilFEM using ANSYS pre, post and solving
capabilities, adds more than 400 new features and
specific utilities for the Civil engineering field.
CivilFEM can be purchased as "add-on" to any
ANSYS product.
CivilFEM
A PREPROCESSOR PREPROCESSOR
INTRO
N
S SOLUTION ADITIONAL OR +
COMPLEMENTARY ANALYSIS
Y Specific
POSTPROCESSOR POSTPROCESSOR
S Modules
CivilFEM
ANSYS
(Features added to Ansys by CivilFEM)
Positioning and Advantages
• Ansys+CivilFEM goal is to be a technological leader
and different product with unique capabilities that is
able to change the construction/civil engineering
design and technological process.
• It means a new culture in this industry.
• Product according new/emerging advanced high end
customer needs.
• Only one product for most of customer needs and
departments.
CAE for Civil Engineering
Software for
Concrete/Steel
Building/Power
Software
Plants
Software
Software Structures for Bridges
for
for Soil and
Composite
Rocks
Structures
Mechanics
Advanced
seismic
Software
analysis
for Dams
Only one software to
cover all the industry
needs and
requirements.
ANSYS+CivilFEM Q&A
• Q.A. (Quality Assurance) :
CivilFEM provides a similar Q.A. than ANSYS Inc.
• Q & A includes:
a) Error reporting.
b) Service Packs: bugs are fixed apart of including
some more new features.
In each new release, we must check the verification
example set supplied by ANSYS Inc. (400) plus the
ANSYS/CivilFEM ones (800).
Total around 5,000 verification tests including the
original ANSYS verifications in Pittsburgh.
Typical Projects for ANSYS+CivilFEM
• Industrial buildings, high rise buildings and sport stadiums.
• Seismic calculations.
• Nuclear, wind and thermal power plants.
• Off–shore and marine structures.
• Bridges (concrete, steel, cable, etc).
• Prestressed and non linear concrete structures.
• Tunnels.
• Foundations (slabs, piles, walls, etc).
• Geological and Soil mechanics problems.
• Dams (concrete, earth, etc).
• Cable structures, special buildings, etc.
• Quality control, forensic structural analysis,
project modifications.
ANSYS+CivilFEM Projects
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1 -119.0 -116.6 0.0
2 -42.1 -41.2 0.0
3 -170.6 -167.2 0.0
4 -226.7 -222.2 0.0
0.00 -408.98 5 15.4 15.1 0.0
6 672.4 659.0 0.0
7 1668.0 1634.7 0.0
R 751.6 1262.6 1000.0
481.73 52.65
R 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
flechas m -0.329 -0.988 -1.577 -1.030
-0.639 -1.338 -1.528
Traccion MPa
Tensiones en el cajon -51.61
-fu -510.0
-fy -350.0
-fy/2 -175.0 32.46
0 0.0
fy/2 175.0
fy 350.0 -59.81
fu 510.0
816.26
Compresion MPa
Traccion MPa
Tensiones en la losa -53.34
fctk -1.8
0 0.0
fcd/10 1.7 9.72
fcd/5 3.3
fcd/2 8.3
fcd 16.7 -7.49
fck 25.0
4.71
Compresion MPa
H18: Pretensado de 1m en cables de retenida
ANSYS+CivilFEM Projects
CivilFEM INTRO Module