Hong Kong to Monitor Stonecutters Bridge With FEMtools
 LEUVEN,
Belgium, May 14, 2008 - Dynamic Design Solutions announces that the
Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HK-SAR) has
selected its FEMtools Framework as the platform software to develop a custom
monitoring system for the prestigious
Hong Kong Stonecutters bridge.
This is one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in the world, currently
under construction and scheduled for completion in 2009. The custom
monitoring system will be part of the bridge's Wind and Structural Health
Monitoring System (WASHMS) that monitors the response of the bridge to wind
loading, temperature loading, highway loading and seismic loading.
The order also includes several licenses of FEMtools Model
Updating, which will be used for real-time correlation of the bridge mode
shapes with reference modes shapes obtained from a validated and updated
finite element model. This technique is increasingly used to identify and
assess structural damage in structures as a result of ageing, natural
hazards, accidents or changing operating conditions.
 The
bridge mode shapes will be obtained with ARTeMIS Extractor software,
supplied by Structural Vibration Solutions A/S. This software is used by
civil engineers for ambient vibration analysis of large structures like
bridges and buildings.
Dynamic Design Solutions’ general manager Eddy Dascotte said, “This new
bridge monitoring project gives us the opportunity to showcase
state-of-the-art structural health monitoring technology that uses
operational modal testing and finite element model updating applied on a
large scale civil engineering structure. Our solution turned out to include
the right mix of features to satisfy the requirements for this project.”
“We are pleased to partner with Dynamic Design Solutions to provide a
structural health monitoring solution that integrates modal testing and
simulation,” said Palle Andersen, managing director of Structural Vibration
Solutions. “The level of automation that can be obtained with operational
modal analysis is a key factor to its success in real-time monitoring
applications.”
About Dynamic Design Solutions NV
Dynamic Design Solutions ("DDS") is an independent and privately owned
developer of CAE software tools for validating simulation models, optimizing
engineering designs and integrating and automating simulation processes.
Dynamic Design Solutions has its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium.
The flagship product of the company is FEMtools, a multi-functional,
cross-platform and solver independent family of CAE software programs
providing analysis and scripting solutions for many different applications
in the areas of finite element pre- and postprocessing, structural dynamics
simulation, pretest analysis, test-analysis correlation, model updating,
uncertainty analysis, design improvement, CAE process integration and
simulation data management. FEMtools seamlessly integrates with standard
finite element analysis programs. The underlying framework architecture with
powerful scripting and API function libraries provides unlimited extension
and customization. This makes the software an ideal tool for research and
development of process-based applications like damage identification.
About Structural Vibration Solutions A/S
Structural Vibration Solutions A/S is a spin-off company from Aalborg
University, Denmark. It is an independent and privately owned company
specialized in software solutions based on the Operational Modal Analysis
technology. The core product is the patented ARTeMIS Extractor, which is
considered the state of the art product within the field of Operational
Modal Analysis and used as reference for many researchers in this field. It
includes several algorithms and can as such return cross validated results.
If the response of a structure can be measured, ARTeMIS Extractor can find
the modes of the structure, no matter if is large civil engineering
structures subjected to wind, waves and traffic, or mechanical structures
such as rotating machinery.
For more information, visit
http://www.svibs.com/.
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