ANSYS/CivilFEM Overview

Peter R
R. Barrett
Barrett, M
M.S.C.E.,
SCE P P.E.
E

© 2009 CAE Associates

CivilFEM Overview Webinar

 CAE Associates / Ingeciber & CivilFEM

 General CivilFEM Overview
 CivilFEM Modules
— Intro Module

— Nonlinear Bridge Simulation

— Pre-stressed Concrete
DistPilx (1...Npx-1)
DIAPIL

— Geotechnical Applications including

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DExtTop
Piles identified with _
two numbers (I,J): (3,4)
Horizontal and vertical Y

tunnelling _ (I,J)
DExtRig

PosXCol X

— Nuclear Applications

DistPily (1....Npy-1)
Column
_ (2,2)

PosYC ol

DExtBot
_ (1,1) (1,2)

DExtLef

HeightEn
HeightPil

HeightT (1)
WidPLA

LenPIL

HeightT (NumStr)

HeightT (NumStr+1)

Rectangular wiling of Npx x Npy piles

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What is CivilFEM?
 CivilFEM is an integrated Pre
Pre- , Solu - and Post-processor
Post processor add
add-on
on to
traditional ANSYS developed by ANSYS’s Spain distributor
INGECIBER
AASHTO LRFD NSYS/CivilFEM
Bridge Design Specifications 130º
130 120º
120 110º 100º
(Western USA) 5
5 CANADA

2.5 50º

60
60 5

15

40
5
5
15 40º
50 2.5
2.5
5
5

60 80 5
30º

A Seismic 2.5
Acceleration Coefficient Zone
2.5
< 0.09 1 5
_ 0.19
> 0.09 and < 2
Tro
_ 0.29
> 0.19 and < 3 pic
of C
ance
_
> 0.29 4 r
MÉXICO

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INGECIBER- CivilFEM Developer / ANSYS Partner
 Ingeciber S.A. is a CAE company and ANSYS Channel Partner
with more than 20 years of experience using and developing
CAE Software

 Ingeciber’s
g Qualityy Assurance System
Q y is ISO 9001 certified.

 Ansys, Inc and Ingeciber, S.A. have a long standing OEM

Agreement and established a strategic alliance for FEA solutions
i the
in h construction
i iindustry.
d S
Some worldwide
ld id CCustomers:

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ANSYS Today
World’s
World s Largest Simulation Community
>10,000 Total Customers
 >125,000 Commercial Seats
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 >140,000 University Seats
 > 200 Channel Partners
 > 75 Industry Partners
>6,000 Total Customers >2,000 Total Customers
 >60,000 Commercial Seats
>60 000 Commercial Seats  >10,000 Commercial Seats
>10 000 Commercial Seats
 >70,000 University Seats
 >20 Channel Partners
 >80 Industry Partners
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ANSYS/CivilFEM

 ANSYS/CivilFEM combines the world leading general

purpose structural analysis features of ANSYS (ISO-9001)
with high-end civil engineering-specific structural analysis
capabilities of CivilFEM (ISO-9001).

 Current Customers include: AREVA, AECOM, Parsons,

Leslie
L li E.E Robinson,
R bi Westinghouse
W ti h

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CivilFEM & ANSYS

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Current CivilFEM Distributors

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CAE Associates, Inc.

» One of first 4 ANSYS

Channel Partners
 Since 1985…
» Engineering Co.
Co
 Since 1981
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CAE Associates – CivilFEM / ANSYS Partner

 28 years Structural,
Structural Thermal and Fluid engineering consulting
 One of the original ANSYS Channel partners
 The US leader in ANSYS Finite Element Training
 Custom Training of ANSYS and CivilFEM

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Sampling of CAE Consulting Services
 NIST – Structural Fire Response and Probable
Collapse Sequence of the World Trade Center
Towers Investigation
 Steam Generator Replacement in Nuclear
 C t i
Containment tB
Buildings
ildi
 Pre-stressed Concrete Pipe Simulation
 Concrete Dam simulation to meet
FERC /C/Corps off Engineers
E i licensing
li i

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CAE Associates Senior Technical Staff
Nicholas M. Veikos, Ph.D., President
Peter R. Barrett, M.S.C.E., P.E., Vice President
Michael Bak, Ph.D., Project Manager
P ti kC
Patrick Cunningham,
i h M S M E Project
M.S.M.E., P j t Manager
M
Steven Hale, M.S.M.E., Project Manager
James Kosloski,, M.S.M.E.,, Project
j Manager
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Hsin-Hua Tsuei, Ph.D., CFD Manager
Jonathan Masters, Ph.D., Project Manager
George Bauer, M.S.M.E., Project Manager
Eric Stamper, M.S.M.E., Project Manager
Michael Kuron,
Kuron M.S.M.E.,
M S M E Project Engineer
Lawrence L. Durocher, Ph.D., Director

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ANSYS Strengths
 Nonlinear Stress Analysis
— Contact
— Plasticity
— Creep
— L
Large D
Deflection
fl i – P-Delta
P D l Eff
Effects
— Element Birth and Death
 Full Element Library (over 200)
— Beams, Pi
B Pipes & Sh
Shells
ll
— 2D and 3D Solids
— Springs, Contact, etc
 Dynamic Analysis
— Response Spectrum

— Nonlinear Transient Dynamics

 Thermal-Stress Analysis
— Indirect and direct coupled field simulations

 Large Model Simulations

— Solvers, meshing, Postprocessing, Graphics

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CivilFEM Strengths

 CivilFEM Capabilities
— Entire suite of ANSYS capabilities including nonlinear analysis
and dynamics
— Built-in
B ilt i Section
S ti Properties,
P ti Material
M t i l Models
M d l and d Code
C d ChChecking
ki

 Industry Specific CivilFEM Modules

— Nonlinear Bridge Simulation

— Pre-stressed Concrete

— Geotechnical Applications including tunnelling

— Nuclear Applications

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ANSYS/CivilFEM Applications

Tensiones en el pilono MPa Movimiento en cabeza

Tension Fuerza Alargami
de pila = -1.008 m MPa KN mm
1 -119.0 -116.6 0.0
2 -42.1 -41.2 0.0
3 -170.6 -167.2 0.0
4 -226.7 -222.2 0.0
0.00 -408.98 5 15.4 15.1 0.0
6 672.4 659.0 0.0
7 1668.0 1634.7 0.0
R 751.6 1262.6 1000.0

481.73 52.65
R 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

flechas m -0.329 -0.988 -1.577 -1.030

-0.639 -1.338 -1.528
Traccion MPa
Tensiones en el cajon -51.61
-fu -510.0
-fy -350.0
32.46
-fy/2 -175.0
0 0.0
fy/2 175.0
fy 350.0 -59.81

fu 510.0
816.26
Compresion MPa
Traccion MPa
Tensiones en la losa -53.34
fctk -1.8
0 0.0
9.72
fcd/10 1.7
fcd/5 3.3
fcd/2 8.3
fcd 16.7 -7.49

fck 25.0
4.71
Compresion MPa

H18: Pretensado de 1m en cables de retenida

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ANSYS/CivilFEM Applications

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CivilFEM INTRO Module Main Features

 Material library & Section library

 Easy Beam & Shell Postprocessor
 Smart Load Combination tool
 Code Checking & Design
 Shell/Solid Reinforcement
 Reinforced and mass concrete cracking / crushing
 Seismic tools
 Composite sections
 Export-Import of solid & beam sections
 Connection with SAP2000
 HTML and Excel connection
 Integration with FLAC3D
C3 ((advanced soil mechanics))

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CivilFEM Setup Options

Intuitive definition of
any units system

Most international codes

implemented

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ANSYS/CivilFEM Material Library
 Nonlinear / Time Dependent Material Properties

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CivilFEM Material Library

ANSYS & CivilFEM

material editing
from one window

Generation of user-
defined material
library
Automatic updating of
time dependent material properties

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CivilFEM Material Library

 A complete library of Code materials:

– CEB-FIP Model code

– Eurocode No.2

– Eurocode No.3

– ACI 318 - 05

– AISC

– British Standard

– UNE

– ASTM

– EHE

– EA

– Chinese code GB-50010

– Chinese code GB-50017

– Brazilian Code NBR6118

– Indian Standard 456

– Russian Cπ 52/101/03

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User Material Library

The material
properties are stored
in a file named by the
user

Possibility of adding user

databases in CivilFEM’s
material library.

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CivilFEM Material Library

User defined
material name
Birth time
of
materials

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CivilFEM Material Library

Non-Linear
Materials
With time-dependent
material
t i l properties
ti

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Simulation of Construction Process

 Perform real time construction process analysis

(Material birth and death)
• Distinguishing characteristic of CivilFEM:
— Time of birth.
• Construction Process through material definition
— (Activation and Deactivation time).

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CivilFEM Material Library

Visualization of time-dependent material properties

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CivilFEM Material Library

 Advanced Concrete Modeling

— Interface for SOLID65 element (non linear reinforced concrete element)
properties definition

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CivilFEM Material Library

 Advanced Concrete Modeling

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CivilFEM Material Library

 Advanced Concrete Modeling

— Simplified and Accurate Creep Modeling

a)) Step
St byb step
t method
th d
b) Effective modulus method

— American Code ACI 209R-92

209R 92
— EHE
— CEB -90 CODE
— EUROCODE 2

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CivilFEM Material Library

Structural Steel

Thickness dependent
diagram
g and
properties

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CivilFEM Material Library

 Soils and Rocks Library

— Library with mechanical,

elastic and plastic properties
of characteristics soils and
rocks (around 100).

— Defining, editing and

modifying material laws not
included in ANSYS (Atterberg
limits Hoek & Brown
limits,
coefficients, etc).

— Correlations among
geotechnical parameters from
tests results (elasticity module
versus Standard Penetration
T t (SPT),
Test (SPT) etc)t )

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CivilFEM Material Library

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CivilFEM Materials – Command Block Example

 CivilFEM Material Library

y and Units commands Accessed via GUI,,
via commands or in Workbench via Command Block

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ANSYS/CivilFEM Automation
 Standard and User Defined Sections / Geometry Generation

a2

z
t 22 t 21
p22 p21 vCU vCUr
1 1
vU vUr
hCU hCUr
hU hUr
t 31 t 41
b1
1

s31 hL
hCL hCLr

vL vCL
1
p12 vCLr
t 11
p11
1
a1 a0 /2

Tri-cell box section definition

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CivilFEM Sections Explorer

Definition of any type of

cross sections using a single
window

Compose cross
sections by merging

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Hot Rolled Shapes Library

Quick search of
adequate shape

Addition of
user defined
hot rolled shapes

“Library
of more
than
4,000
shapes”

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Hot Rolled Shapes Library

Automatic
search of
Up to 3 appropriate
properties with shape
h
maximum and
minimum values
can be specified
in the search

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User Hot Rolled Shapes Library

Introduction of user’s own

hot rolled shapes library into
CivilFEM library by reading
a ffile or byy menu

Just define the shape and

dimensions of the section

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User Hot Rolled Shapes Library

Mechanical properties are

automatically calculated

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Steel Sections by Plates

Any generic cross section

shape can be defined

User friendly definition

of plate properties that
forms the section

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Steel Section Edition

 You may define a section reading its properties from library

 Then you can modify its dimensions redefining this section as “section by
dimensions or by
b plates”.
plates”

 And you can even edit its plates to transform the section from an existing
one (changing dimensions).

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Sections by Dimensions

Automatic definition
of section shape

Automatic
definition of
preliminary
reinforcement
f

Helpful information about

the section geometry

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Capturing 2D Sections

An easy way to define any generic

composite beam section from a 2D
ANSYS meshed drawing - each element
You can change
corresponds to a subgrid
the material of any
subgrid

Each subgrid adopts initially

the material assigned
to its corresponding element

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User Database of Cross Sections

The cross section

properties are storedd
in a file named by
the user

Properties of the cross

section are read and
listed in the active code
y
and unit system.

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Section Merging

 It’ possible
It’s ibl to
t create
t a section
ti as a composition
iti off two
t existing
i ti sections.
ti

 The merged
section will take
into account all the
properties of the
t
two initial
i iti l sections.
ti

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Variable Cross Sections & Beam Offsets

Cross section
number
The user can define
offsets
ff when the
section’s center of
gravity does not
coincide with
the node location

Tapered
beams

Real constant list

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ANSYS/CivilFEM Beam Results

 Example Beam Results from

CivilFEM
— Shear

— Peak Stress

— Section Data

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ANSYS/CivilFEM Code Checking & Design

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ANSYS/CivilFEM Code Checking & Design

 Example
p Code Check
— Load Combinations Wizard
— Pass / Fail
— Safety Factor Plots

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Bridge Module Main Features

 Concrete Creep and Shrinkage

 Bridge layout modelling (in plan and elevation view)
 Utilities for generating common bridge sections and
la o t design
layout
 Geometric and finite element model generation for
either Beams or Shells or 3d Solid elements
 Loads Generation
— Overloads
— Moving loads (vehicle’s editor)
— Utility for Prestressed forces input
— User loads
 Automatic Loads combination
 Simulation of construction process

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CivilFEM Bridge Module

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Bridge Cross Sections

 Create different bridge section using the CivilFEM

SECTION 1: BOX

SECTION 2:
2 6
HOLES

SECTION 3: 7 HOLES

SECTION 4: 6 HOLES

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Bridge Components
 ANSYS/CivilFEM allows a detailed analysis
y of p
piers,,
cross bracings, diaphragms, etc.

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Loads Generation (Traffic Loads)
 Vehicles: Rigid
g ((truck)) or flexible ((train, adaptable
p to the p
path))
 User friendly path definition: road surface and road axis are automatically
detected by the program

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Loads Generation (Prestressing Cables)

 Definition of points along the cable’s

cable s path (automatic adjustment of the
points using splines)
 Introduce the tensile force at specific locations in the tendon’s path
 A tomatic transfer of the cable action to the str
Automatic structure
ct re

P'
1
P'
N

P
2
Pk PN
P1
Pk+1
P
k+2

P
T1 O

R
1 z
MR
z

fz
MR K
x
T2
c.d.g.
R 2
3D spline generation MR y
y
R fy
K
x
fx
K

Transmision of the cable actions to the model

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Cable Stayed Bridge Wizard

 Nonlinear Construction Process Analysis:

Y Y
X X
Z Z
Y
X
Z

MN

Y
X
Z

MX

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3D Tendon Geometry Editor

 Allows the definition and editing of the geometric and strength properties
of all tendons. Edited is either graphically or by coordinates. All features
can be driven via commands.

Tool Bar

Elevation
View
Object
Tree

Info/Edit
Window

Plan View

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Prestressed Forces, Moments & Stresses
 Stresses in the support and in the middle of span.

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Geotechnical Solutions

 Nonlinear Materials
 Slope Stability
 Seepage
 Earth Pressure
 Pile Wizard
 Retaining Wall Wizard
 Tunnels Water Table

Definition of
each layer
property

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Geotechnical Module Capabilities

 Geotechnical properties library for soils and rocks

 Foundations (Pile/micro pile cap)
 Retaining wall generation and design (Sheet Piles)
 Underground structures (tunnels)
 Slope stability analysis
 Seepage analysis
 Integration with FLAC3D (available in CivilFEM INTRO)

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Geotechnical Module Capabilities

 Large 3d Nonlinear Material Finite Element Modeling

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Deep Foundations

 Pile Cap Wizard:

— Automatic generation of rectangular, polygonal or circular pile groups

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Foundations & Dams

 Footing and continuous foundations:

— - 2D/3D soil-structure interaction models

 Dams

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Wizard for Tunnel Design

Tunnel section PLOT NO. 1

-909.174
-878.511
-847.848
-817.185
-786.522
-755.859
-725.196
-694.533
-663.87
-633.207

Tensión
Verticalvertical. FrenteAdvancement
Stress. Tunnel de avance
Longitudinal
Forces and Moments on Section
Concrete
COL 3

COL 1
PLOT NO. 1
-.018494
-.014481
-.010468
-.006455
-.002443
.00157
.005583
.009596
.013609
.017621

COL 2

Forces acting on Movimiento vertical.

Vertical Movement. Frente
Tunnel de avance
Advancement
concrete tunnel Longitudinal
Section

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Underground Structures (Tunnels)

 Element Birth and Death capability (non-linear construction sequence

analysis)

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CERROGORDO

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ANSYS/CivilFEM Nuclear Applications

 Nuclear codes :
— ACI 349.

— ACI 359 Sec. 3 Division 2.

— ANSI/AISC N690.

— ASME B&PV Code Section III, Subsection NF.

— AISC Code ASD 9th Edition

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CivilFEM ACI 359 Code Checking

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ACI 359 Code Check Example

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Solid to Shell Data Mapping

 Solution Results and Design Results

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ANSYS/CivilFEM Nuclear Applications
 Analysis of concrete nuclear facilities, including determination of stresses in
concrete
t andd rebar
b iin shell/brick
h ll/b i k elements
l t subjected
bj t d tto iin-plane
l shear/membrane
h / b
forces and biaxial bending moments.

 Able to model any structure inside a nuclear plant including:

— Generator pedestals
— Pipe support systems
— Cable trays
y
— Containment buildings
— Pressure vessels
— Underground waste storage tanks

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Seismic Analysis

AASHTO LRFD NSYS/CivilFEM

Push-Over Analysis
Bridge Design Specifications 130º 120º 110º 100º
(Western USA) 5 4,50E-01
5 CANADA

2.5 50º 4,00E-01

60 3,50E-01
60 5
ADRS Format Spectrum
15 3,00E-01

40 2 50E 01
2,50E-01
IPE 100
5
Sa
5
15 40º 2,00E-01 Con rigidizadores
50 2.5
2.5
5
1,50E-01
5

60 80 5
30º 1,00E-01

A Seismic 2.5 5,00E-02

Acceleration Coefficient Zone
2.5
< 0.09 1 5 0,00E+00
_ 0.19
> 0.09 and < 2 0,00E+00 1,00E-02 2,00E-02 3,00E-02 4,00E-02 5,00E-02 6,00E-02 7,00E-02 8,00E-02
Tro
_ 0.29
> 0.19 and < 3 pic
o f Ca
4
n ce
r
Sd
_
> 0.29
MÉXICO

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Example SAP to ANSYS Model Conversion

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Example SAP to ANSYS Model Conversion

SAP2000

ANSYS Modal Analysis

SAP ANSYS

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