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Mads Reck
Force Technology
March 2006
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EIntroduction
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Discussion
Introduction
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Fire event
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Optimization of
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Fire retardants
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Oil rig fire

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Gas truck explosion

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Explosion in an electric installation.

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CFD/FEA in addition to regulations
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EFSI combines CFD and FEA

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moving / deforming geometry
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ANSYS Mechanical & CFX Mechanical
Multiphysics coupling to CFX
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Fluid and structure treated separately
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Full features within each solver
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Load passing across field interfaces
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Analysis types (transient, static or harmonic) lud e
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Mesh discretization
Automated mesh morphing (two-way)
Material and geometric nonlinearity
Independent results files for each field
Examples
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EGeneric examples
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Blood flow (1)
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User coding, check valve (2)
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Fire near gas tank
Basic combustion setup (4)
FSI example 01/04
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Blood
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Check valve example

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Forces on ball using CFX subroutine

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FSI example 02/04
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 FSI example 03/04
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E at a cube test case

Fire
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 Combustion
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Combustion is fundamental in safety assessment.

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Back draft example

FSI example 04/04
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EFire near tank

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Structural response
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EExamples on structural responses

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ANSYS Mechanical (linear elastic)
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Explosives code (FLACS) t inc
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Bursting pipe end Offshore deck

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Mine sweeper armour Pipe subjected to fire

Two way FSI wind turbine. Linear response
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EPreviously
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EPresent prospect - LNG carrier

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Discussion
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ESafety assessment using advanced computational

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To improve
include more detail in CFD (as always)
Even closer program interaction
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