Activities

Priority Issues being Addressed

• Benchmarks for non-linear analysis
• Optimisation
• Fracture and Fatigue
• Materials Characterisation
  - Determination and use of material properties
  - Composites
  - Reinforced concrete
• Explicit Dynamics

Publications in Development

• Review of Nonlinear Publications
• How to Analyse Concrete Using FEA
• Optimisation Case Studies
• How to Model Composite Materials
• Determination and Use of Material Properties

Recent Publications

• How To Analyse Composites
• Benchmarks For Composite Delamination
• How To Undertake Contact & Friction Analysis
• How To Do Seismic Analysis Using Finite Elements
• An Introduction to Modelling Buckling and Collapse
• How To Tackle Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis
• Why Do Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis?
• Introduction to Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis
• Benchmarks for Membrane and Bending Analysis of Laminated Shells
• Why Do Design Optimisation?
• Summary Report from Concrete Under Fire: High Temperature Effects on Concrete Seminar

Relevant NAFEMS Events

A large number of NAFEMS events are closely related to the work of the CSM WG. A small sample are listed below:

• Simulation in Transport, Manufacturing, Structural Integrity and Vibro-Acoustic Problems , January 2008
• Applied Element Method as a Practical Tool for Progressive Collapse Analysis of Structures , April 2008
• Computational Structural Acoustics: Technology, Trends and Challenges , December 2008
• Seismic Analysis using Finite Elements , December 2008
• Introduction to the Structural Analysis, the Finite Elements and the Digital Simulation , November 2009
• Simulating Composite Materials and Structures , December 2009
• Simulating Composite Materials and Structures , February 2010
• Practical Analysis of Laminated Composite Structures , February 2010
• Concrete Under Fire: High Temperature Effects on Concrete, March 2011