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- Automated Design of Railway Culverts
- Italian LUSAS distributor Alhambra srl worked in conjunction with the engineering company Ingegneri Associati srl to automate the modeling and design/checking of railway culvert structures in accordance with Italian bridge loading and reinforced concrete codes of practice. Automating the analysis of culvert structures using the LUSAS scripting facilities produces significant...
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- Millennium Bridge
- Whitby Bird and Partners, based in London, is a multi-disciplinary consulting engineering firm at the leading edge of technology and innovation. Their competition-winning design for the York Millennium Bridge across the River Ouse was inspired by the spokes of a bicycle wheel and consists of an inclined arch with radially...
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- Cost-Effective Bridge Assessment
- Many steel bridges have been shown to fail assessment to design code BS5400 Part 3. Two consulting firms, both using LUSAS Bridge have proved a 40 tone capacity on a structure that, according to the code, had insufficient lateral restraint and would have required a severe weight restriction. By using...
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- Dynamic Analysis of the Royal Victoria Dock Bridge
- Consulting Structural Engineers, Techniker Ltd, won a competition sponsored by the London Docklands Development Corporation to design a footbridge to span the Royal Victoria Dock in London. To help evaluate the dynamic response of the structure LUSAS Bridge was used. The global member loads and deflection envelopes obtained from the...
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- Approach Viaduct Design for the Vasco Da Gama Bridge
- Kvaerner Technology Ltd is one of a consortium of companies designing the New Tagus Crossing in Lisbon, Portugal. It used the extensive solid modeling capabilities of LUSAS Bridge for analyzing reinforced concrete diaphragms on the 6.5km long central viaduct section of the crossing. Each 77m long viaduct span unit consists...
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- Modelling the Replacement of Degraded Concrete on the Terra Nitram Prill Tower
- The Severnside prill tower is operated by Terra Nitrogen UK Ltd to manufacture ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Despite a history of regular maintenance and repair parts of the reinforced concrete structure have deteriorated over the years due to the severe operating environment and by 1998 significant structural repairs were required. Taylor...
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- Parametric Design of Water Treatment Tanks
- Haswell Consulting Engineers are customizing LUSAS civil & structural to analyze geotechnical problems involving soil/structure interaction. Extensive use is made of the LUSAS parametric facilities to automate the modeling and analysis of various types and sizes of ground bearing and piled water treatment tanks. An important feature of all LUSAS...
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- Support Hinge Assemblies for the Gateshead Millennium Bridge
- The Gateshead Millennium Bridge, designed by consulting engineers Gifford and Partners with Wilkinson Eyre, is an eye-catching, steel, opening bridge that spans 105m across the River Tyne. When closed, small river craft can sail beneath the bridge but, for larger vessels, the cable-stayed double arched structure pivots at the abutments...
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- Offshore Centralizer Design
- UWG Ltd provides a consulting engineering design, fabrication and offshore service for the oil and gas industry. LUSAS Analyst is used to carry out detailed analyses of centralizer designs to investigate their ultimate strength and fatigue life. Use of the LUSAS sideline facility simplifies modeling the contact between the centralizer...
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- Fatigue Analysis of Tubular Joints With Single-Sided Welds
- MSL Engineering, a leading UK Engineering Consultancy specializing in advanced analysis, assessment, repair, R&D, audit, verification and reliability evaluations for the offshore industry used LUSAS to investigate the stress distributions in typical offshore K joints formed from single-sided welds. MSL used the LUSAS pre and post-processor to perform the geometric...
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- Faster Vibration Analysis of Automotive Exhaust Systems
- To reduce the time taken to assess new exhaust systems Arvin Exhaust R&D, based in Warton, England commissioned FEA Ltd's consultancy department to produce the Arvin Modal Analysis Program AMAP as an extension to LUSAS Analyst which already in use. By using AMAP the vibration behavior of proposed new exhaust...
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- Pressure Sensor for Monitoring Mine Safety
- Stress meter developed for monitoring rock stresses in underground mines. Modeling changing contact conditions can be cumbersome in finite element systems which rely solely on the relatively old-fashioned "friction/gap" type of elements. This is not so in LUSAS, where state-of-the-art "slide line" facilities made the modeling of the two contact...
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