Understanding Computer Analysis

Understanding Computer Analysis

Introduction

The safe use of the computer requires that the designer has a robust, independent understanding of the structural behaviour and the ability to arrive at approximate values for key design values, against which the results of the computer can be checked.

Course Content:

• The identification of the appropriate analysis engine; 1st, 2nd order and finite element.
• Reducing complex structures to find the upper bound.
• The approximate analysis of structures.
• Overall equilibrium.
• Restraints, rigid links, offsets, compression and tension members.
• Theory of superposition.
• The interpretation of the computer analysis output.

Speakers:

Dr David Brohn

Dr David Brohn, PhD, CEng, FIStructE, in the early 1970's, devised a test for an understanding of structural behaviour. The control group for the test was the graduate entry to the Arup Partnership. This course was devised for the Partnership and revealed that even engineers of many years experience are less than secure in applying an understanding of structural behaviour.

In the mid 1980's he set up the software company QSE to apply this concept to the design of a highly intuitive interface for structural analysis software.

He has continued to provide the training course for many of the world's leading firms of structural designers.