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98 TheStructuralEngineer Opinion
March 2016 Book review

Review This introduction to advanced modelling techniques will likely be of interest to senior
engineers seeking background knowledge on the use of analysis software for
specialised structural design, writes John Lyness.

which must comply with Eurocode or other


Advanced standards, several conditions must be satisfied
by the geometric data, material property data

Modelling and load data. References are provided at


the end of each chapter that go some way

Techniques in
to provide this. However, many questions
remain, for this reviewer, about proving the
suitability of the FE analysis techniques and

Structural Design software that have been chosen. For such


structural forms, load cases and material
behaviours, involving the use of proprietary
analytic software, the quality assurance (QA)
compliance sequences and procedures are
surely paramount. For more completeness it
Author: Feng Fu would have been useful if a description of the
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell appropriate design QA procedures relevant
Price: £79.95 to these modelling steps in real-life structural
ISBN: 978-1-118-82543-3 design could have been included. I am
thinking of competence certification, software
certification, ISO compliance, design standard
This book covers the analysis, for design The introductory chapters list the compliance, error bounds, tolerances,
purposes, of more unusual structural forms, proprietary geometric modellers, CAD statistical confidence, risk assessment etc.
load cases and material behaviours. The software and FE software that are described, Perhaps citing references to the QA for
book seeks to describe the use of upstream later, in the applications. The proprietary the relevant FE techniques, the QA for the
geometrical modellers as an efficient source analysis software that is listed covers most of relevant proprietary FE software and the
of geometric data for the analysis model. the popular software currently in use for “one- possible assessments of accuracy, following
The book contains 10 chapters. Two are off” structures and scenarios. The widespread adaptive re-meshing, error bounds, etc., could
introductory chapters and then eight follow routine design office use of structural analysis, be considered by the author in future.
that cover the use of geometric and computer- design and detailing software for more I think that this book’s principal users will
aided design (CAD) modellers with different common structural forms is not described. be senior engineers who want speedy access
proprietary finite-element (FE) and other Within each chapter a “nutshell” introduction to topical background knowledge on the use
analysis packages. The objective of the use is given describing the appropriate mechanics of currently accepted analysis software for
of the geometric and analysis modellers is to theory and the theory for the analysis method, specialised structural design, and information
provide information on predicted stresses and together with some useful references. The on using their upstream 2D and 3D CAD
displacements for different, generally extreme preparation of the geometrical data, using modellers. I also think that the book will be
scenarios and load cases due to static, geometric modellers, is followed by use of of interest to specialised structural analysis
dynamic, environmental and thermal loadings. an appropriate numerical analysis method. practitioners who would like to broaden their
The analysis and scenario chapters cover The use of the selected proprietary analysis practical knowledge of the scope of other
tall buildings, earthquake analysis, progressive software is outlined by describing the design providers of currently available acceptable
collapse, blast and impact loading, structural load cases, constraints, material properties analysis software for more specialised
fire analysis, space structures, bridge etc. The set-up procedure for the analysis structural analyses and scenarios.
structures and foot-induced vibrations. is written up as a sequence of sentences
The author is obviously an analysis with some commentary. The selection of the
practitioner who has been engaged in appropriate analysis output and its useful
ensuring the appropriate data and data format (graphical, vector etc.) for the structural Dr John Lyness
preparation needs for the effective use of design process is illustrated and discussed. MIStructE
John is a Reader in Civil Engineering at
analysis software, and who has been faced The written English is variable in parts.
The University of Ulster. He previously
with the practicalities of optimising the use Several of the screenshot diagrams are worked as a structural engineer in
of file exchange between the upstream illegible and most of the diagrams would have Northern Ireland and in offshore
geometric (CAD) modellers and the analysis benefited from annotations. engineering in London.
modellers. For the use of the output in design,

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