Strand7 courses

Courses: Outline

Course Outline

Strand7 develops and presents courses in finite element analysis and Strand7. The current suite of courses have been presented and refined over a period of fifteen years and have been attended by hundreds of engineers and designers, both in Australia and overseas.

We present two types of courses:

Regular courses ranging from general introductory, to advanced, to specialised courses.
Customised courses, usually presented at the customer's site, with emphasis on specific topics of interest.

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We present the following suite of courses:

     Introducing Strand7
     Nonlinear Analysis
     Dynamic Analysis
     Structural Analysis
     Heat Transfer Analysis
     Automeshing
     Melbourne
     Brisbane
     Perth
     UK Training
     USA Training

Introducing Strand7 - 4 days

This introductory four day course is intended for engineers with little or no previous experience in Strand7 or FEA. It is designed to give an overall understanding of the use of Strand7 in solving real engineering problems. It teaches how to create and verify finite element models, how to set up the solvers and interpret the results using the post-processing tools. The examples presented, cover the use of beam, plate and brick elements and the most common solvers. On the final day, with assistance from the presenters, attendees are asked to build and analyse a model from their own sphere of interest, and then interpret the results.

Some of the topics covered during the course include:

Overview of Strand7, including pre and post processing, arbitrary units, dynamic rotation.
Creating meshes, including features such as creating elements, grouping, global load and freedom cases.
Model summary, including user defined information about model details, properties, bill of materials.
Solvers and post-processing of results, including sub-modelling, stress averaging, global units, creating animation files, results listings.
Reporting of results, including features such as printing, print preview, graphing.
Advanced attributes in Strand7.
Link elements.
Cut and paste features.
User-defined beam sections, exact calculation of the torsion constant and shear area, full rendering of arbitrary beam sections and automatic alignment.

This course is usually held in our Sydney office.

Nonlinear Analysis - 2 days

This course addresses the growing need to undertake second order analysis in structural and mechanical design and covers geometric, material and boundary nonlinearities. Nonlinear buckling using the automatic load stepping is also covered. Solver parameters are explained in detail. Participants work through examples of nonlinear problems such as concrete lined tunnel, plate buckling, formation of a plastic hinge in a steel beam, concrete reinforced beam, catenary cable, etc. An introduction to construction sequence simulation in Strand7 is also given.

This course assumes a good working knowledge of Strand7 and FEA and is usually attended by engineers who have completed the Introducing Strand7 course or have had at least six months Strand7 experience.

This course is usually held in our Sydney office.

Dynamic Analysis - 2 days

This course addresses the growing need to undertake dynamic analysis in structural and mechanical designs. The course covers many aspects of dynamic analysis including natural frequency analysis, time history analysis, harmonic and spectral response methods. Examples are taken from mechanical engineering problems such as vibrating machinery, and structural engineering problems such as earthquake response of buildings.

This course assumes a good working knowledge of Strand7 and FEA and is usually attended by engineers who have completed the Introducing Strand7 course or have had at least six months Strand7 experience.

This course is usually held in our Sydney office.

Structural Analysis - 2 days

This course covers the use of Strand7 in structural engineering applications such as the analysis of concrete structures, the static and dynamic analysis of structures buried in or sitting on the ground, the use of the nonlinear solver for the analysis of P-Delta effects and second order buckling/collapse analysis. The course also discusses in detail, methods for modelling bins, dams, tunnels, high rise buildings, foundations, cable stayed structures, pipework, corrugated sheet cladding etc. Element types considered include beam, plate, membrane and 3D bricks. The application of dead and live loads, together with the combination and enveloping of these is also covered.

This course assumes a good working knowledge of Strand7 and FEA and is usually attended by engineers who have completed the Introducing Strand7 course or have had at least six months Strand7 experience.

This course is usually held in our Sydney office.

Heat Transfer Analysis - 1 day

This course covers the use of Strand7 in the analysis of steady state and transient heat transfer problems. An overview of heat transfer theory is provided for linear and nonlinear, steady-state and transient heat transfer. Examples and discussions will consider various thermal loading and boundary conditions. The three basic modes of heat transfer, conduction, convection and radiation are discussed in detail via the hands-on examples. Other applications of the heat solver for the solution of general field problems (eg. seepage flow) may be discussed, time permitting.

This course is usually held in our Sydney office.

Automeshing - 1 day

The use of CAD in FEA is covered in this course, which is designed to introduce the automeshing tools in Strand7. Examples and discussions will include such topics as importing geometry from CAD packages, supported CAD file formats and CAD entities, inspecting and evaluating geometry and preparing geometry for meshing. Strand7’s geometry cleaning tools will be used to repair CAD files before meshing. Surface and solid meshes will be generated and evaluated. Single and multiple parts (assemblies) will be covered. Strategies for combining automatic and semi-automatic meshing using other Strand7 tools will be discussed. CAD models from mechanical and structural fields will be used.

This course is usually held in our Sydney office.

Melbourne - 5 days

Strand7 users are invited to register their interest in attending a Strand7 course in Melbourne. We intend to offer a "modularised" course over the 5 days consisting of 2-3 days on Strand7 essentials (introductory topics) with the remaining time focused on more advanced topics. Participants will then have the option of attending one or more modules, depending on their requirements.

The course will be held in the vicinity of the Melbourne CBD and will run subject to sufficient interest and registrations. To register your interest in attending the course, tick Course 5 on the booking form, fill out your contact details (leave payment details blank) and you will be contacted shortly after with further details.

Brisbane - 5 days

Strand7 users are invited to register their interest in attending a Strand7 course in Brisbane. We intend to offer a "modularised" course over the 5 days consisting of 2-3 days on Strand7 essentials (introductory topics) with the remaining time focused on more advanced topics. Participants will then have the option of attending one or more modules, depending on their requirements.

The course will be held in the vicinity of the Brisbane CBD and will run subject to sufficient interest and registrations. To register your interest in attending the course, tick Course 6 on the booking form, fill out your contact details (leave payment details blank) and you will be contacted shortly after with further details.

Strand7 users are invited to register their interest in attending a Strand7 course in Perth. We intend to offer a "modularised" course over the 5 days consisting of 2-3 days on Strand7 essentials (introductory topics) with the remaining time focused on more advanced topics. Participants will then have the option of attending one or more modules, depending on their requirements.

The course will be held in the vicinity of the Perth CBD and will run subject to sufficient interest and registrations. To register your interest in attending the course, tick Course 7 on the booking form, fill out your contact details (leave payment details blank) and you will be contacted shortly after with further details.

UK Training - 5 days

Strand7 Training is available to UK users. The UK course will run for 5 days and will be offered as a 'modularised' course similar to the Australian interstate courses. The course will run subject to sufficient interest and registrations.
View the Strand7 training 2008 booking form UK that includes pricing information and course dates for the UK training course.

USA Training - 5 days

In association with Beaufort Analysis Inc., Strand7 users are invited to register their interest in attending a USA course in June. The course will run for 5 days and subject to feedback it will be offered as a 'modularised' course similar to the Australian interstate courses.

The course will run subject to sufficient interest and registrations. To register your interest in attending the course, tick Course 2 on the booking form, fill out your contact details (leave payment details blank) and you will be contacted shortly after with further details.