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3D Modeling Technology Offers Groundbreaking Solution for Engineers
New software will help engineers develop safety assessments of structures and their foundations by helping to identify collapse mechanisms in three dimensions.
Credit: Parsons Brinckerhoff
Software developed at the University of Sheffield will make it easier for engineers to develop real-world safety assessments of structures and foundations.
The software is designed to directly identify three-dimensional (3D) collapse mechanisms and provide margin of safety information. The software uses the same basic approach of a method for directly identifying two-dimensional (2D) collapse mechanisms, which Sheffield researchers developed in 2007.
"The software we have developed means that engineers should in the future be able to model real-world geometries much more easily than before, obviating the need to idealize a complex 3D problem as a much simpler 2D problem," says Sheffield professor Matthew Gilbert. "This should lead to more reliable assessment of margin safety and, ultimately, save companies time and money on projects."
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