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 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 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 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 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…

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 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…