Mathcad for-aec-eurocodes 1401

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Mathcad for Architecture

Engineering & Construction

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Date 08/01/2014





•  Overview of Mathcad •  Mathcad simplifies Eurocodes •  Mathcad for Architecture Engineering and Construction •  Customer examples

Agenda"




It all starts with capture – but how is it done today?

•  Lack of standardized process and tools to capture calculations and IP –  Multiple tools and mediums for data

discovery and analysis –  Information is stored in multiple sources

and locations –  Limited support for traceability

•  Limited sharing and reuse of calculations and IP –  Tedious process to search, compile and

understanding how to apply the knowledge •  Easier to ‘reinvent the wheel’ for new projects

–  Significant time to bring new resources ‘up to speed’

Challenges in leveraging engineering knowledge"

Mathcad overview




How does this scenario impact your business?

•  Loss of IP (due to attrition) –  Delays in getting new engineers fully up-to-speed and productive on design

best practices

•  Delayed and over-budget projects –  Wasted time spent fixing calculation errors late in the design cycle or after

product launch

•  Lost market share and revenue –  Calculation errors force product recalls or costly rebuilds –  Not re-using corporate IP forces delays in time-to-market

•  Inability to support and demonstrate compliance –  Critical corporate IP stored in multiple systems must be manually assembled

for submission to regulatory bodies

•  Higher costs due to prototypes and lost productivity –  Optimized designs from earlier products lost and not re-used –  Engineers spend unnecessary time ‘re-discovering’ critical corporate IP

Business implications"

Mathcad overview




•  Enables enterprises to: –  Prevent loss of IP and improve

knowledge capture –  Optimize critical design and

engineering processes –  Improve product quality –  Speed up their time to market –  Improve compliance with regulations

•  Allows engineers to quickly and easily: –  Solve, document, share and re-use

vital calculations –  Combine text, math, graphs & images

in a single worksheet –  Enable knowledge capture, data reuse,

and design verification

What is PTC Mathcad?"

Mathcad overview




•  Intuitive –  Easy to use, whiteboard interface –  Natural maths notation

•  Comprehensive –  Combines live math, text, graphics,

and programs in a single readable form –  Powerful numeric and symbolic maths –  Manages units automatically

•  Self-documenting –  Traceable, readable form –  Knowledge capture, verification & re-use


Mathcad overview




‘Talented engineers are using Excel and getting serious errors of which they’re simply not aware. And errors build up more rapidly than you might expect.’!

Dr. Alan Stevens Specialist, Mathematical Modeling & Simulation – Rolls-Royce"

Mathcad overview




How it helps engineers"–  Focus on engineering

•  Document-centric environment –  Complex, professional engineering

design documents –  Intuitive, quick & easy

•  Usable, learnable interface –  Explore complex engineering calculations

in a familiar, user-friendly environment

•  Advanced engineering math exploration –  Display, manipulate, analyze and plot data –  Full unit support –  Access hundreds of built-in functions or

create your own


Mathcad overview




PTC Mathcad in greater detail"

Mathcad overview

Multiple document environment

Task-based UI organizes workflows in an intuitive manner

Intuitive function toolbar allows rapid discovery

and use

Graph-paper interface keeps content organized with clear

calculation order

Spec tables and embedded Excel allow tabular

organization and calculation

Improved equation editor stays a step ahead

of the user

WYSIWYG page-view, or draft view for extra whiteboard space

2D and 3D plots allow directly manipulation.

No repetitive dialogues! Integrated headers and footers – just double-click

to edit

F1 launches context-sensitive, consolidated help

Collapsible areas help streamline presentation

Symbolic operations, and solving combined with

numerics

64-bit support, multi-threaded calculations




Mathcad simplifies Eurocodes




ELEMENT DESIGN to BS 8110:2005 – simple Tee & L beams Excel solution"


Documentation efforts required for the desired display in Excel

Examine the first line of the output required from the Excel sheet

Desired output from an Excel sheet

Each line takes 10 mins to write

Each line takes 10 mins to validate

Each line takes 10 mins to understand during re-use




ELEMENT DESIGN to BS 8110:2005 – simple Tee & L beams Mathcad solution


Take the first line of the output from the Excel Sheet

Implement this in Mathcad

Takes a few minutes to write out,

validate and make sense

of for re-use!




•  BS 5268 (the ‘old’ Timber Engineering Standard)"–  Mainly calculated using tables with few formulae"

What has changed? – Eurocode 5 "





•  Eurocode 5 (the ‘new’ Timber Engineering Standard)"–  Mainly calculated using tables with few formulae"

What has changed? – Eurocode 5 "


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Mathcad is the right solution to implement Eurocodes!




Calculation based on Eurocode 2

Customer’s Mathcad sheet"





Customer’s use cases




–  Highway design –  Bridge and tower construction –  Retaining wall structural analysis –  Waste disposal systems –  Environmental: water and air pollution control –  Pipelines –  Irrigation –  Transit: railroads, airports

Mathcad’s robust maths engine provides advanced maths capabilities for various AEC disciplines"

Mathcad for Architecture, Engineering & Construction





Uni-Systems scores big in designing retractable stadium roofs using Mathcad"

Mathcad for Architecture, Engineering & Construction


In the late 1960’s, Uni-Systems, LLC was established to develop moveable structures for aerospace giants such as Boeing Aircraft, American Airlines, and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Later, the company branched into the military, construction, entertainment, and, in more recent years, sports industries. Uni-Systems has designed, fabricated and installed the mechanization components for five of the last six retractable sports-stadium roofs built in North America

The solution

The result(s)

The challenge

Unlike proprietary calculating tools and spreadsheets, Mathcad enables engineers to design and document engineering calculations simultaneously, with comprehensive applied math functionality and dynamic, unit-aware calculations. Even better, Uni-Systems encountered very little downtime getting up to speed using Mathcad. And, throughout the design process, the Uni-Systems team kept all calculations in Mathcad, resulting in easy-to-see – and share – calculations.

Design and build the first fully retractable, natural-grass playing surface in the United States. Uni-Systems’ design team needed to devise a way to move an 18.9 million-pound playing field in and out of the stadium at the touch of a button

BusinessWeek magazine voted University of Phoenix Stadium one of the ‘Top 10’ sports facilities in the world, and in 2007 the Arizona Republic named it one of the seven wonders of Arizona.




Accurate engineering calculations are critical for bridge design at SAMHYUN PF (Korea)"


Business initiative

SAMHYUN PF (Korea) is a bridge construction company established in 1999. SAMHYUN has since become a leader in ‘preflex’ bridge construction, with the experience and knowledge in all aspects of the business- from design to construction. Recently, SAMHYUN led the industry with the successful development of the ‘Precom’ girder technique- the latest composite method of bridge construction.

The solution

Result(s)

SAMHYUN PF uses Mathcad as a calculation verification tool for the girder calculation process. Mathcad is critical for its speed and minimal errors produced when creating the calculations behind these structures

§  With Mathcad, SAMHYUN has achieved better verification of calculations; Excel calculations often contained errors which could not be checked easily

§  With Mathcad, SAMHYUN’s engineers have saved over 50% of their time in creating calculations- allowing for their easy

documentation and re-use §  SAMHYUN has been able to create an automated calculation

system for ‘Precom’ using Mathcad

The engineers at SAMHYUN PF create their key engineering calculations with Mathcad, so that they document their calculations with ease and with less time then previously done in Excel

Previous product used/evaluated

Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets




Further information required?

•  Mathcad landing page: http://www.adeptnordic.com/products/mathsim/mathcad •  Use Mathcad Express for free: http://www.adeptnordic.com/download/dldcat/33/0/All/Mathcad.html#1

•  Or contact your local office: http://www.adeptnordic.com/contact

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