Finite Element Analysis for Civil Engineering with DIANA Software

Mr. Shun Chai is currently a PhD candidate at Department of Civil Engineering in Southeast University, Nanjing, China. His research field is mainly focused on evaluation of structural state, including the long-term evaluation of precast segmental bridges, resilient design of bridges, stochastic finite element method of polynomial chaos extension on structural reliability research as well as the current UHPC research. Dr. Chai participated in many experiments, including long-term performance experiment and the flexural research of precast segmental concrete (PCS) bridges . During the process of researching stochastic finite element method, he has gained vast expertise as well as rich experience in DIANA version 9.4, 10.1 and 10.2 software. In 2018, his book Finite Element Analysis of Diana 10.1 on Civil Engineering was published by Nanjing University Press in Chinese language (ISBN: 978-7-305-20282-7).​

Summary of DIANA Finite Element Analysis software.- Brief introduction of DIANA constitutive models and specifications.- Nonlinear analysis of DIANA Modeling cases in Civil Engineering.- Hydration heat reaction.- Nonlinear finite element numerical analysis of Precast Segmental components.- Drawbacks of DIANA release 10.1 and suggestions for further release versions.- Supplementary materials.