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...
W & J Tod Ltd have been involved with fiber composites since 1948. LUSAS Composite is being used to analyze high technology composite solutions for uses in Marine, Civil, Aerospace, Defense and Mass Transport applications. One such application is a 3.7 meter diameter radome to suit a ship borne antenna....
To address the matter of significantly increasing the spans of future suspension bridges, Gordon Rose of Rose Associates has proposed the Space-Web Bridge concept. In this design, the aerodynamic and seismic stability of a suspension bridge is enhanced by the addition of a horizontal system and network of cables incorporating...
Millepede Cable Ties made use of FEA's Engineering Consultancy Services department to help optimize the design of a patented new type of cable tie. By using LUSAS Analyst a series of nonlinear contact analyses were done to investigate the deformation of a typical cell in the cable tie. This resulted...
The two multi-span main footbridges are 320m long and 4.7m wide. They comprise pre-stressed concrete edge beams connected by a structural slab and down stand ribs. The decks are suspended using arrays of cable stay rods from inclined steel pylons. Steel cable backstays hold the 25m high pylons at the...
Tony Gee and Partners used LUSAS Bridge for the analytical study of load and stress distribution of Neasden Lane Overbridge in London. The bridge comprises two historically distinct deck systems that are proposed to be made composite by installing a load sharing mechanism. Re-assessment of the bridge superstructure to UK...
Novi Sad Friendship Bridge is an asymmetric cable stayed swing footbridge which spans the River Wensum in Norwich to provide access to a new commercial development and helps regenerate a historic but run-down part of the city. Buro Happold Consulting Engineers Ltd in association with architects, Yee Associates, used LUSAS...
When built, the New Mississippi River Bridge will be a record-breaking, cable-stayed structure linking the States of Illinois and Missouri in the USA, helping to relieve traffic on other bridges across the river. The designer, Modjeski and Masters, was chosen by the Illinois and Missouri Departments of Transportation to perform...
Walker Wingsail Systems plc, previously based in Plymouth, design and manufacture next-generation yachts driven by wing sails and made from the very latest glass and carbon fiber composite technology. To advance their designs still further, LUSAS Composite was used to examine stress distribution in the trailing section of a proposed...
LUSAS Civil & Structural analysis software can be used to analyze a wide variety of cable stayed structures such as masts, towers, and cable stayed roofs. LUSAS has advanced cable elements that can be pre-stressed, carry no bending load, and exhibit catenary properties to allow accurate analysis of both self-weight...
Hyder Consulting, one of the UK's leading consultancies use LUSAS Bridge to perform a design check of the Vasco da Gama bridge and associated crossing of the Tagus at Lisbon, Portugal. The 18km long crossing comprises a series of concrete viaduct structures together with a 420m span cable stayed bridge...
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...
LISBON AFP â A Roman Catholic nun who warned authorities in Mozambique that an organ trafficking network involving children was operating in the southern African country has accused officials investigating the case of a cover-up, it was reported. Sister Maria Elida alleged "that investigations by the attorney general's...
The 42,000-seat Jeonju sports stadium is one of 11 new stadiums being built in Korea for the 2002 football World Cup. The stadium's 260 x 160-m steel roof is comprised of a perimeter truss supported on Ashaped columns to the rear of the grandstand, and an inner-ring...
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--June 2, 1999-- Life USA Holding, Inc.(Nasdaq:LUSA) Life USA announced that the Board of Directors of Allianz AG has approved the acquisition of Life USA by Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America Allianz Life. The Board of Directors of Life USA approved the agreement...
SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 9, 1996--INTERNET alfredo a one-stop emporium for all your digital needs (video, multi-media, graphics, internet, video conferencing and more) announces a Seybold special during the conference week culminating in a Seybold Salon on Friday 13th from 8:00 p.m. onwards. Situated in the heart of SOMA's multimedia gulch,...
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