FLAC3D Integration with CivilFEM.ppt

,CivilFEMforANSYSHigh-EndSolutionsforAdvancedCivilEngineeringProjects,IntegrationwithFLAC3D,FLAC3D,INGECIBER,s.a.,,Integrationobjectives/advantages,Themodelgenerationiseasierandfasterwiththeintegrationmaterials,geometryandmeshing.SolutionofANSYSCivilFEMmodelsmakinguseofFLAC3Dpowerfulfeaturesforsoilandrockanalysismaterialbehaviorlaws,explicitsolver,specialgeotechnicalelements,porousmedia,etcPostprocessingofFLACstructuralelementswithCivilFEMreinforcementdesign,checking,etc.,,GeneralSketch,,Preprocess,CommandCFFL3DExportANSYSCivilFEMdatabasetoFLAC3D3DSolidelements‘Zones’Solidelementnodes‘Gridpoints’ANSYSStructuralelementsFLACstructuralelementsStructuralelementnodesFLACnodesCommonnodes‘Links’MaterialpropertiesStructuralelementpropertiesAxissystem,,SolidElements,ANSYSSOLID45Element,FLAC3Dprimitives‘zones’,,,,,StructuralElements,SHELL43,SHELL63,BEAM44,BEAM4,LINK8,CableSEL,BeamSEL,PileSEL,ShellSEL,GeogridSEL,LinerSEL,,,,ANSYS/CivilFEM,FLAC3D,,Materialpropertiesdefinition,,,Forsoilsandrockmodels,CivilFEMallowsthedefinitionofFLACconstitutivelawsforthematerialsdefinedusingANSYSCivilFEM,JustselecttheFLAC3Dconstitutivemodeltobeused,ThepropertiesassignedtothesoilrockelementsinFLAC3DaretakenfromtheCivilFEMmaterialpropertiesanddependsontheselectedconstitutivemodel.,,Materialpropertiesdefinition,,,Forthestructuralelements,CivilFEMallowsthedefinitionoftheFLAC3Dstructuralelementtypedirectlyfromthematerialwindow,,JustselecttheFLAC3Dstructuralelementtypetobeused,ThepropertiesassignedtothestructuralelementsinFLAC3DaretakenfromtheCivilFEMmaterialpropertiesanddependsontheFLACelementtypeselected.,,PossibilityofrefiningthemeshwhenexportingthemodeltoFLAC3Dbyintroducingthedivisions’numberthatwewishtoobtainfromeachoriginalANSYSelementdirectionX,YandZ,MeshRefinement,ThisutilityallowstobuildandanalyzelargemodelsinFLAC3Dwithoutexceedingthenumberofnodes/elementsavailableinANSYSCivilFEMlimitedversions,,,MeshRefinementexamples,NdivX,Y,Z1,NdivX,Y,Z4,ANSYSmodel,FLACmodels,,MeshRefinementexamples,NdivX,Z1NdivY10,,ANSYSmodel,ModelexportedtoFLAC,,Tet-Hexmeshingconversion,PossibilityofautomaticconversionofanANSYStetrahedralmeshintoanhexahedralmeshwhenexportingthemodeltoFLAC3D,,SelectionoftheconversionkeyoptionusingCivilFEMexportingcommand,,Tet-Hexmeshingconversion,,,Postprocessing,FL3DREScommandRetrievesthestructuralelementsresultsobtainedinFLAC3DTheresultsarestoredintoCivilFEMresultsfile*.RCVasanew‘DataSet’OnlyretrievestheresultsofthestructuralelementsthathavebeendefinedusingCivilFEMcommandsduringpreprocess.TheresultsimportedfromFLACcanbestoredtogetherwithANSYSCivilFEMresultsinthesameresultsfile.,,,ANSYSCivilFEM,,File.RCV,,,ExampleArchBridge,ReinforcedconcretebridgeandsoilmodelgeneratedwithANSYSCivilFEM.,,ExampleArchBridge,ModelexportedtoFLAC3D.,,ExampleArchBridge,FLAC3DResults,,ExampleArchBridge,StructuralelementspostprocessinganddesignusingCivilFEM,