Course Overview
• Springs, restraints, inclined supports, coordinate systems, element eccentricities, special sections (variable inertia, custom, bars and trusses, plates and shells, cable), wind loads and wind profiles on members, thermal loads, calculation of cg loads, refinement of advanced geometry generation functions, arrows, recalculate, quick introduction to finite elements (plate elements, mesh contours, integration lines, iso-contours), analyzes and conventions, examples.
• P-Delta analysis: calculation method, destabilizing force, convergence and instability.
• Geometric non-linear analysis: theory, disruption of geometry, convergence and instability.
• Buckling analysis: theory, Euler’s load, comparison with non-linear analysis.
• Frequency analysis (overview): theory, definition of weights and masses, consistent and diagonalized mass matrix, participating mass.
• P-Delta analysis: calculation method, destabilizing force, convergence and instability.
• Geometric non-linear analysis: theory, disruption of geometry, convergence and instability.
• Buckling analysis: theory, Euler’s load, comparison with non-linear analysis.
• Frequency analysis (overview): theory, definition of weights and masses, consistent and diagonalized mass matrix, participating mass.
Key Learning Objectives
Knowing and applying more advanced features of SAFI allowing the design and analysis of a model. Discovering and applying the different types of analyzes such as:
P-Delta Analysis
Geometric nonlinear analysis
Buckling analysis
Frequency analysis
P-Delta Analysis
Geometric nonlinear analysis
Buckling analysis
Frequency analysis
Audience
Structural engineers and project managers
University researchers and professors
Mechanical engineers and project managers
Architects
Structural technicians
Estimators and designers
Designers
Other members of the manufacturing industry
University researchers and professors
Mechanical engineers and project managers
Architects
Structural technicians
Estimators and designers
Designers
Other members of the manufacturing industry
Schedule
Virtual Classroom opens : 8:00 am (EDT)
Course starts : 8:30 am
Training : 8:30 am – 10:30 am
Morning Break: 10:30 am -10:45 am
Training : 10:45 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch break : 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Training : 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Afternoon break: 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Training : 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Course Ends Q&As : 4:30 pm
Approximate schedule, may change without notice.
Course starts : 8:30 am
Training : 8:30 am – 10:30 am
Morning Break: 10:30 am -10:45 am
Training : 10:45 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch break : 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Training : 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Afternoon break: 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Training : 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Course Ends Q&As : 4:30 pm
Approximate schedule, may change without notice.
Personal Development Units
Participants receive a certificate of attestation allowing them to accumulate eligible hours for continuing education (7 hours).
Training Manual
Participants receive a printed training manual by mail to the address provided during registration.
The training manual will be sent to you in the days prior to the course date.
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