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April 2006 

 
 
   
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Dear SCIA eNews reader,

The winter has lasted long enough now. So as to set in spring we offer you some captivating and fresh articles, e.g. the cooperation between SCIA and Arcelor, the fact that China wants to build no less than 40 new airports in the coming 4 years, … As long as the Chinese keep the airspace open for the Easter bells, we really don’t mind …

Much reading pleasure with this new edition!

» Corporate News: Arcelor and SCIA, a strong tandem for innovation
» Product News: Linear and Non-linear construction stages in SCIA.ESA PT 5.2
» The Market: China, 40 new airports from now up to 2010
» Customer's Project: Venting Shafts of the Wastewater Treatment Plant of Pierre Bénite
» Tips & Tricks: Online Support, requesting "Ticket Status"
       
   
 Arcelor and SCIA, a strong tandem for innovation  
 
Arcelor Commercial Sections (www.asc.arcelor.com) lays large emphasis on innovation in the use of steel in the construction world. With high-grade steel, efficient new construction methods for floors, bearing structures of buildings, large spans, …, are pursued.

The strategic cooperation with SCIA leads to new products and services.

Arcelor has a beautiful offer of software for predimensioning, free available on their Internet site. For construction components (for example a beam or a column) fast insight in feasible dimensions for ACB’s (Arcelor Cellular Beams), PMX/CCD beams & columns carried out in mixed steel/concrete, is obtained. The integration of Arcelor dimensioning software in the general design surroundings of SCIA (SCIA.ESA PT) provide direct advantage: the designer is immediately able to compare several options: standard steel profiles, reinforced concrete, prestress concrete, mixed steel concrete implementation or ... more
 
 
   Linear and Non-linear construction stages in SCIA.ESA PT 5.2  

The linear construction stages were developed for the ‘Prestressing’ project in ESA-Prima Win.
It allows the user to built-up its structure (also ‘Steel constructions’!) during the construction and service stages, thus allowing the user to model the entire life cycle of a structure.

This module allows the adding/removing of supports, 1D-elements and tendons. For each construction stage, safety factors can be set for the permanent and variable load cases including the prestress load cases, thus resulting in a bandwidth of min/max stresses/forces/deformations/reactions. Additionally the user is able to transform cross-sections by adding newly cast (concrete) or installed(steel/timber/other) materials during the construction stage.
Thus easily a composite steel/concrete bridge can be modelled using this module.
This module is based on superposing (linearisation) load cases and as a consequence, the user can easily verify results by adding and removing individual cases.

The non-linear construction stages were developed for the `PIPFAS’ project in SCIA.ESA PT. Hereby we calculate tensions, forces and deformations in pipelines throughout the various phases that are to be analysed.
With a non-linear construction phase model, you calculate in fact a load case that changes as the phases develop. The history of the previous phase (i.e. the deformed structure, internal forces) is remembered for calculating a new construction phase. This module has been based on the 2nd order theory of Newton-Raphson with large bending deformations in the structure. This module cooperates with the physical and geometrical non-linearity’s of SCIA.ESA PT. Particularly, several ... more
 
   
 China, 40 new airports from now up to 2010  
 
According to the national newspaper 'China Daily’, China will invest 17,4 billion dollars in its airport infrastructures during the next five years, and they plan to build an extra forty airports to answer the strong growth of the air traffic.

The number of airports should thus increase from 142 today to 186 in 2010, according to Gao Hongfeng, vice-minister of civil aviation, as quoted by the ‘China Daily’. The anticipated investment during the next five years is exceeding the sums devoted to air infrastructure of the last fifteen years: that is 14,9 billion dollars between 1990 and 2005.
Guangzhou Baiyun Airport

This effort in particular aims at ... more
 
   
   Customer's Project: Venting Shafts of the Wastewater Treatment Plant of Pierre Bénite  
 


The IOA team is multidisciplinary. The company counts 30 people with various competences making it possible for IOA to incorporate themselves in various fields.

IOA combines four trades:

  • complete work control or technical assistance with the project superintendent,
  • assistance work control (technical aid in design phase and realization),
  • laboratory/expertise, engineering and
  • design department

Project
Extension and modernization of an existing water treatment station in order to arrive at a processing capacity of 1 million equivalent/inhabitant in 2006.
Work description of IOA
Realisation studies of the reinforced concrete and prestress concrete of the ventilation ducts
Supervision: Le Grand Lyon
Project management: HB Architecte and Michel Lassagne Béture Cérec
Contractors: Stereau - GFC Construction

Description of the project
It regards four ventilation ducts of 30.000 m³, each one grouped ... more

 
   
   Tips & Tricks: Online Support, requesting "Ticket Status"  
 


As a registered customer, it is possible to check the status of your tickets online using our website
www.scia-online.com.

On the website, go to Support > Online Support

On the Support page, you can find the options View your Tickets and Make a new Ticket.

Using View your Tickets gives an overview of all your tickets send to support and shows the status of each. Using Make a new Ticket it is possible to create a new support question through the website. This also allows to add several attachments like project files.

In general, tickets created through the website or e-mail ... more

 
   
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