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March 2005 |
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On the 3rd training day, SCIA will treat 'Plates and Shells' in SCIA.ESA PT. This training is organised in Arnhem (NL) on 11th March 2005. Contact for more information or consult our
Online Training Calendar.
New Service Release:
ESA-Prima Win 3.60.392 and SCIA.ESA PT 5.0.389 available on our secured download-section...
Many new items have been added to our CAE-FAQ section. Here you can find the answers on frequently asked questions related to Esa-Prima Win, SCIA.ESA PT, ....
Some Sceenshots from
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Dear eNews reader,
In this March edition of the SCIA eNews we have some hot information on the SCIA User Contest 2005. The competition has been closed with 85 very interesting projects with a 'Winner of the Jury' in each of the 4 categories. Some random pictures of attractive projects can be found below. Have a nice reading!
In this edition we show forth the following items:
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| SCIA Corporate News: SCIA User Contest 2005 |
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 A rich variety of structures were presented to the jury on Valentine’s day 2005; around 85 projects competed in 4 categories. The SCIA clients proved – once again – that creativity and effort give rise to excellent results. Amazing pictures are submitted to illustrate the use of SCIA’s CAE and CAD software in construction. Engineering structures such as tunnels, power plants, bridges, towers, shelters, quays have been designed with ESA-Prima Win or SCIA.ESA PT. Well known arenas, churches, convents and stations are built with the help of SCIA Software. Extremely high rise buildings and spectacular steel structures (masts, cable structures) illustrate the progress of advanced calculations.
Beyond the functionality of the software, the quality of the engineers gives us full assurance that the construction industry is in full movement. The presented projects also prove that the SCIA clients are operating on a global level; in nearly every continent of the world, structures, designed and detailed with the SCIA software, are being built.
It is the first time that the contest addresses as well CAD as CAE applications. The S-BIM (Structural Building Information Modelling) concept gets roots!
Who are the winners? Wait for a separate mailing. As for the Olympic games: participating is more important than winning. Today we sincerely thank every individual participant and congratulate him/her with the excellent achievement. The SCIA community is stronger than ever.
The SCIA User Contest Book will soon be on your desk! Some random pictures of attractive projects can be found in the section customer projects.
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| SCIA releases a new module 'Prestress Checks' for NEN 6720 |
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 In March, SCIA will release a new module for NEN 6720. It will be possible to check prestressed, pretensioned beams. The performed checks will be: allowable stress (compression and tension), crack proof, response and capacity. The checks will use the engine from ESA-Concrete Section, thus allowing easy and modern review of stresses, strains and forces. Each result can be reviewed for each individual construction stage including the aging of the concrete, creep, relaxation and shrinkage! Finally the additional reinforcement areas for the main, shear and connection reinforcement can be calculated respecting the defined prestress reinforcement.
Then only one major leap remains for the customers using NEN code. This last step will be the ‘design’ of post-tensioned tendons or/and pre-tensioned strand patterns. Both developments will be carried out in SCIA.ESA PT. The design of strand patterns will be complete in version 5.2. Today SCIA and some strategic customers are working on improving the software more and more. Yet it is possible to easily define a strand pattern based upon the borehole pattern of the cross-section.
The user can easily drape, fix, change or debond any strand. All input data can graphically be reviewed using the superior graphical engine of SCIA.ESA PT.
(Complete article in English only...)
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Calatrava sets course for Atlanta |
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 The Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava presented in Atlanta the building project for the symphony orchestra of the city. Just as in the recently built ‘Opera of Tenerife’, the structure will be kept very light, totally carried out in steel and glass.
This architectural project of Santiago Calatrava will provide by 2008 the symphony orchestra of Atlanta, the largest in the southeast of America, with an astonishing building. Today, it is already regarded as the modern symbol of the State of Georgia, ready to be sent on postcards throughout the world. The amount anticipated for the construction is 225 million dollars.
 The project of Calatrava wraps generous open-air surfaces of glass and steel in white concrete shells. One element of this structure, the true backbone of the project, rises up to 56 m in the air. It starts at the back of the building then "peaking down again to the front like a falcon on its prey". This element is repeated a second time, on a lesser scale, above a side entrance. The effect of dynamism brought by this air element is in fact quite real because the adjacent "wings" are mobile and can be opened above the upper foyer.
Concerning the acoustics of the auditoria, entrusted to the team of Kirkegaard Associates, it is provided that the ceiling of the large auditorium can be lowered or raised in order to adapt to various types of sonorities.
The architect explains: as this symphony centre is being located at the heart of the city, it is only logical to install the orchestra amidst the audience.
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Pictures from the SCIA User Contest 2005 |
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| Category 1: Allplan Projects |
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| Category 2: Civil Engineering |
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| Category 3: Commercial and Industrial building |
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| Category 4: Steel Constructions |
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| Tips&Tricks: Working with Plates and Walls? |
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For the calculation model all plates and walls have to be connected!
 Therefore a button is available in the construction menu and in the calculation paragraph of the tree.
If no members are selected, SCIA.ESA PT will check the whole structure for not-connected bars and 2D elements:
The connected edges will be marked with red labels.
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