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An automatic simulation tool for thermal analysis of gravity dams by BFM. (English) Zbl 1302.74194

Gao, X. W. (ed.) et al., Boundary elements and other mesh reduction methods XXXVI. Selected papers based on the presentations at the 36th international conference (BEM/MRM), New Forest, UK, June 8–11, 2014. Southampton: WIT Press (ISBN 978-1-84564-841-1/hbk; 978-1-84564-842-8/ebook). WIT Transactions on Modelling and Simulation 56, 491-502 (2014).
Summary: The dam’s construction schedule has significant influences in long-term concrete temperature, whose variations may produce local thermal stress and thus result in damage and cracking. This paper describes a methodology for predicting the thermal evolution in large concrete placements with special emphasis on gravity dams during their construction by the Boundary Face Method (BFM). A simulation tool that completely integrated into a CAD environment (here UGNX is adopted) has been developed. Benchmark examples are presented and compared with other solutions by the FEM.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1279.65006].

MSC:

74S15 Boundary element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics
74F05 Thermal effects in solid mechanics
65D17 Computer-aided design (modeling of curves and surfaces)

Software:

Potent; NX; ANSYS; NASTRAN; ABACUS
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