Computational Mechanics

• High performance parallel computing
• Efficient finite element analysis

• Constitutive model algorithms
• Impact/penetration and stress waves
• Reinforced/prestressed concrete modeling
• Fluid sloshing and fluid-structure interaction
• Water hammer and piping response
• Creep behavior
• Buckling
• Thermo-elastic-plastic analysis of structures
• Virtual Reality Applications

Seismic Engineering and Dynamic Testing

• Seismic isolation
• Seismic safety
• Soil-structure interaction
• Seismic qualification of equipment/structures
• Seismic walkdown
• Dynamic testing, experimental modal analysis and damage detection

Computer Codes

NEPTUNE

A 3-D deterministic/probabilistic analysis code for static, transient and impact analysis of continua and structures, including concrete structures.

FLUSTR

3-D finite element code for dynamic and seismic analyses of sloshing and hydrodynamic loads in fluid structure systems with the capability of reactor scram analysis

ALICE

2-D Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian code for performing complex fluid-structure interactions and vessel response prediction

SISEC

3-D structural finite element code for seismic response analyses of base-isolated structures

TEMP-STRESS

2-D finite element code for analyses of prestressed/reinforced concrete structures subjected to pressure/thermal loads

SHAPS

3-D piping code for calculating pressure wave propagation and piping response

SCRAP

2-D code for seismic response prediction of reactor core fuel assemblies

NUBOW

3-D code for creep-swelling analysis of reactor core fuel assemblies

Additional Information:
[ESM Overview] | [Examples of Analyses]