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Analysis and Optimum Design of Nondeterministic Structures under Random Loads
The importance of analyzing and designing structural systems by using a reliability-based approach is emphasized, including system safety requirements with regard to both serviceability...

Structural Design Optimization of Nonlinear Response With Adina
Procedures for sensitivity analysis and optimization of nonlinear structural systems with the computer program ADINA are described. Formulation of the structural optimization problem and...

Design Improvements Using Finite Elements and Optimizing with Approximate Functions
A design optimization module has been added to the finite element program ANSYS, designed to aid the engineer in reaching an improved or optimum design. The numerical technique employed...

Incorporating Uncertainty in a Dynamic Structural Analysis
A methodology has been developed and exercised for taking into account parametric uncertainties in a structural dynamics analysis and providing an approximation of the probability of response....

Computer Aided Structural Analysis
Computer Aided Structural Analysis (CASA) is an interactive computer graphics program designed to solve two dimensional structural analysis problems. CASA is currently used by the Department...

Study of Structural Behavior with Computer Simulation
The application of computer simulated testings of structural elements in the civil engineering undergraduate education is described. With a computer simulation a structural component may...

Animated Response of Dynamic Systems
Understanding how a simple structural system responds to a dynamically applied load is a difficult concept for most students to grasp. The fundamental mathematical theory of this behavior...

A Problem Oriented Courseware Interface
A program has been created in an attempt to utilize the benefits of the microcomputer in assisting the learning process without invoking the attendance 'black-box'...

Interactive Structural Analysis and Steel Design on the Macintosh
A program has been written for the analysis of two-dimensional structures for the Macintosh personal computer using the Microsoft Basic language. The program takes advantage of the special...

Finite Element Analysis of R/C Frames and Frame-Wall Systems
A finite element program has been developed for the analysis of reinforced concrete two-dimensional structures. The element library of the program includes, in addition to standard beam...

Nonlinear Analysis of RC Panels Under In-Plane Loading
A new concrete material model based on a modified Mohr-Coulomb criterion is proposed for the nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete panels. Emphases are made on the softening behavior...

Analysis and Design of Prestressed Concrete Spun Poles
A microcomputer package for the analysis and design of prestressed concrete spun poles is described. The package, named PCPAD, consists of six programs each having a specific analysis...

Finite Element Analysis of Punching Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Structures
The analysis of reinforced concrete structures using up-to-date computer graphic capabilities is presented. A wide range of linear and nonlinear problems are the subject of this investigation....

Creep Modelling for Masonry under Plane Strain
A computational procedure based on the principle of superposition to estimate creep strains in composite masonry walls is developed and presented in this paper. This development is based...

Practical Modeling of Bar Slippage in R/C Joints
A procedure based on the displacement method of analysis has been developed for analyzing the behavior of beam reinforcement crossing the interior beam-column connections under seismic...

The Software Implications of Supercomputer Architecture
A simple look at computer architecture from a computational (and hence user) perspective is observed. A relation between computer architecture and software development is explored. Today's...

Attached Scientific Computers in Structural Analysis
The design and analysis process is explored in terms of its requirements for user decision-making and interaction. This is presented as a three-phase procedure: (1) the engineer developing...

Equation Solving on a Parallel Computer
The application of computers to the analysis of large structural systems is examined. The analysis procedure is presented as three distinct phases: (1) element formulation, (2) equation...

Accuracy Control of Finite Element Analysis of Articulated Structures
An examination of the properties of two-node element models leads to data establishing the acceptable choices in discretization to insure the accuracy of finite element analysis of articulated...

Reflections on the Impact of Computer Science on Engineering
Over the past several decades, the use of computers in engineering has grown significantly. Over this same time period, work in the relatively new discipline of Computer Science has impacted...

 

 

 

 

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