{"id":1520,"date":"2012-05-31T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Structural-Analysis-of-Dams\/ba-p\/334902"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:09:14","slug":"structural-analysis-of-dams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/structural-analysis-of-dams\/","title":{"rendered":"Structural Analysis of Dams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><\/P><P class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left\">Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE) based in Milan, Italy, carries out specialized studies and research for companies operating in the hydroelectric sector. With <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/plm\/cae.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">structural analysis<\/A> of dams, the simulation models generally have complex geometries and require a step-by-step approach to their construction. While the analysis is performed by in-house Fortran programs, these programs lack a graphical interface. So RSE uses <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/femap\/index.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap<\/A> to create, mesh and manage the models, as well as postprocessing the results, passing model and results data back and forth in a neutral format.<\/P><BR \/><BR \/><BR \/><DIV style=\"background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;padding: 3px;font: 11px\/1.4em Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0.5em 0pt 0.5em 0.8em;width:300px;\"><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-10237 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/structural-analysis-dams\/karibamesh\/\"><IMG class=\"size-medium wp-image-10237\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/05\/KaribaMesh-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Kariba FE Mesh\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/A><DIV style=\"text-align:center;\">Kariba FE Mesh<\/DIV> <\/DIV><BR \/><BR \/>Finite element modeling of the effect of the concrete expansion phenomenon caused by the alkali-aggregate reaction at the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River.<BR \/><BR \/><DIV style=\"background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;padding: 3px;font: 11px\/1.4em Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0.5em 0pt 0.5em 0.8em;width:300px;\"><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-10238 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/structural-analysis-dams\/karibadam\/\"><IMG class=\"size-medium wp-image-10238\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/05\/KaribaDam-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Kariba Dam\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/A><DIV style=\"text-align:center;\">Kariba Dam<\/DIV> <\/DIV><BR \/><BR \/>To find out more read the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/success\/case_study.cfm?Component=186674&amp;ComponentTemplate=1481\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">RSE case study<\/A>.<BR \/><BR \/>Alastair<BR \/><BR \/>Follow <A href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/femap.software\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap on facebook<\/A> and the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=2270365&amp;trk=hb_side_g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap group on LInkedin<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE) based in Milan, Italy, carries out specialized studies and research for companies operating in the hydroelectric sector. With structural analysis of dams, the sim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}