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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
PARIS AFP — Splits emerged in Europe's fuel-price fishing strikes Monday, with some Spanish trawlers returning to work and most French fishing ports operating normally after a three-week stoppage. The gradual resumption of fishing came ahead of a meeting in Madrid this week of Spanish, Italian,...
SALT LAKE CITY & NEW YORK -- Mainstream Data announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Portugal Telecom PT and Lusa (Portugal's national press agency) to distribute news stories and photographs to Lusa's newspaper and media customers in Europe and Africa via Mainstream's satellite...
Beck's North America has announced that it is in the final stages of reorganizing its national sales team, which included the appointment of several new key corporate sales executives and hiring more than 20 new field personnel. Andy Brennan, BNA's executive vice president of sales,...
MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--June 8, 1999-- Life USA Holding, Inc. Life USA announced that its Board of Directors today received an opinion from its investment banker, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation DLJ, in connection with the pending acquisition of Life USA by Allianz Life Insurance Company...
MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--May 17, 1999-- Life USA Holding, Inc. (Nasdaq:LUSA) Life USA today announced that it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America Allianz Life in a deal valued at $540 million. As a result of the agreement, Life USA shareholders...
MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--May 17, 1999-- Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America Allianz Life today announced that it has agreed to acquire the outstanding shares that it does not already own of Life USA Holding, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUSA) Life USA. As a result of the agreement, Life USA shareholders...
MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--April 13, 1999-- LTCAmerica Holding, Inc. LTCAmerica, an affiliate of Life USA Holding, Inc (NASDAQ: LUSA), announced today that as of March 31, 1999, a total of 66 marketing companies and over 3,000 agents were contracted to market the Company's long term care products. By comparison, this...
MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--April 14, 1998--Life USA Holding, Inc. today announced that first quarter 1998 collected premiums were $289.8 million, an increase of 23 percent over the $235.0 million reported for the same period in 1997. Consolidated net income increased 17 percent, to $6.0 million, compared...
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