Browse By Tags

  • FSI Analysis of a Solar Panel Subject to Wind (Vortex Shedding)

    Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis of a Solar Panel Subject to Wind (Vortex Shedding) In previous technical briefs , we presented the potential-based fluid elements available within ADINA Structures. These elements can model fluid, and its interaction…

  • Analysis of LNG Tanks Using Potential-Based Fluid Elements

    Analysis of LNG Tanks Using Potential-Based Fluid Elements In civil engineering design and analysis, the effects of fluids on the motion of structures can be very important. This is particularly true in seismic analysis of liquid storage tanks. In this…

  • Fully Coupled Fluid Flow Structure Analysis: Sloshing of Oil in a Tank

    Fully Coupled Fluid Flow Structure Analysis: Sloshing of Oil in a Tank The above animation shows the sloshing of oil in a tank with its base subjected to a horizontal ground motion. For better viewing, the fluid and solid parts are presented separately…

  • Solar-driven Desalination with Phase-Change Energy Storage

    Solar-driven Desalination with Phase-Change Energy Storage Along with recycled wastewater, desalination is one of the few rain-independent water sources. Solar-driven desalination is a promising technology since it provides an inexpensive, self-sustaining…

  • Bolt Preload Effect on Fatigue Life

    Bolt Preload Effect on Fatigue Life Preloaded bolts and rods are present in a very wide range of engineering design solutions and geometries where the effects of high cyclic loading are critical. These include, but are not limited to, high-speed railway…

  • Accurate Implicit Time Integration in Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis

    Bathe method w/o physical damping Newmark method w/o damping Accurate Implicit Time Integration in Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis The accurate solution of the ordinary differential equations resulting from the finite element discretization of…

  • FSI Analysis of a Hydroelectric Power Plant

    FSI Analysis of a Hydroelectric Power Plant Hydroelectric power plants are used for economic and environmentally friendly electric power generation all around the world. One of the technical challenges in the design of such structures is to consider…

  • Energy saving while running multiple calculations

    Application PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D Version PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D 2013 Date created 16 August 2013 Date modified 16 August 2013 With PLAXIS 2D and 3D it is possible to calculate several PLAXIS projects using a combination…

  • Recognize Zones with an IFC model with Energy Simulator

    Hello good ABD community, I wanted to ask you guys if anyone knows how to import zones from an IFC file to ABD Energy Simulator? Is there a way to interoperate with IFC to do energy analysis. Regards Rafael

  • Energy Calculation - HWS and occupancy

    Product(s): Hevacomp Version(s): V8i Environment: N/A Area: Mechanical Designer Subarea: Design Database Problem Hot Water Usage is reported as zero upon running the Design Database Energy…

  • Using the Scenario Energy Cost tool in SewerGEMS, SewerCAD and CivilStorm

    Product(s): SewerGEMS, SewerCAD, CivilStorm Version(s): 10.00.00.40 and later Area: Modeling Overview This article explains how to use the Scenario Energy Cost tool in SewerGEMS, SewerCAD, CivilStorm CONNECT Edition (10.00…

  • Energy Consumption on BRUKL report

    Product(s): Hevacomp Mechanical Designer Version(s): V8i (N/A) Environment: N/A Area: N/A Subarea: N/A Overview The BRUKL Compliance and Energy reports from the Hevacomp Part L program contain…

  • EPBD Recast - Specifying alternative forms of energy

    Product(s): Hevacomp Mechanical Designer Version(s): V8i (N/A) Environment: N/A Area: N/A Subarea: N/A Overview The Part L Compliance Report (BRUKL report) contains a section to indicate whether…

  • Problem with pump energy use results

    How is the energy used (cumulative, kWh) being calculated in WaterGEMS? The Water Power is showing an average of 74 kW. After 720 hours, how come the energy used is 186,632 kWh and not 53,280 kWh (74*720)?

  • CIBSE Current and Future Energy Year Index

    CIBSE Current and Future Energy Year Index
    • EWEATHER.ndx

  • Why is the Hevacomp BRUKL Document not showing Solar Thermal Systems?

    Hi, Please would someone be able to help me. I have been trying to complete an SBEM for a client and this one part of the BRUKL document won't show up when I run the compliance section of the Part L in Hevacomp. On the roof of the building in question…

  • Energy analysis of annual cooling loads

    Hi, I have a model that I have been using to get steady state heating and cooling loads. I now need to look at the annual energy use of the cooling and compare a few different senarios. What programme shoudl I use to measure this and , will I need…

  • ReadMe for the AECOsim Building Designer V8i, SELECTseries 6 (v08.11.09.829), Commercial Release

    Please note that you must extract the CHM file in the ZIP file to a local hard drive -- see this article for more information on why.
    • readme_AECOsimBuildingDesigner.zip

  • Very high energy cost

    Hi , I run a water distribution system in Watergems V8i and the energy cost results are very high values. What changes could i make to my system in order to decrease the energy cost? I want to have an energy cost of 5,6 *10^6 $ for 20 years and my…

  • Head Losses

    How can we calculate the energy consumed by the pump in Kilo Watts to over come the head losses in the pipes? Can energy losses be represented in Kilowatts if so how is the methadology? Please help me ASAP with this. I'm on the verge of completion of…

  • Mechanical Engineer - Piping Experience Needed - 8 plus yrs Exper

    Contact me for an outstanding employment opportunities with a Fortune 100 company in the Energy industry who is seeking new hires for some Mechanical engineer positions. Experience in Low & High Pressure Piping, develop piping design Plans …

  • John Marino from Source Recruitment Solutions, LLC

    You can put your trust in Source Recruitment Solutions, LLC. We provide the best personal service and exceptional quality to both our clients and candidates involved. All of our services are given a Customer Satisfaction guarantee. With over…
    • John_Marino - Office Picture.jpg
    • View

  • John Marino- Engineering Source Recruiting Specialist

    Industry Recruitment Specialists: Medical Device Products Consumer Product Goods IT - InformationTechnology Oil & Gas Industry Electric Power Plants Natural & Renewable Energy Financial Services Food & Beverage Industry…
    • John_Marino - Office Picture.jpg
    • View

  • HVAC Engineering Manager - Rochester, NY

    My client is an International A&E Consulting Firm with 150 offices globally and over 10,000 associates. They provide professional consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental…

  • Sun and Earth

    composite of Sun, Earth, and Moon, with input/output arrows Sun, Earth, and Moon from NASA.gov
Communities
Support and Services
Training and Learning
Social Media