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Floor Loading Program
  • Written By
  • Dr. Al Zeiny


  • Mechanical and Civil Engineering Department
  • University of Evansville


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Package Components
  • Floor modeling by the developer
  • Pre-processor to be used by a non-technical user
  • Analysis engine
  • Post-Processor to display results in a very simplified form for the non-technical user
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Floor Modeling
  •  Floor modeling is done by the developer for all the available galleries in the museum
  • The floor of each gallery is divided to finite elements
  • Various mechanical and strength properties of both beams and slabs are calculated and stored in the gallery database
  • The stiffness matrix of the floor is calculated, inverted and stored in the Gallery database
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Pre-Processor
  • The pre-processor allows the non technical user to do the following:
  • place statues, exhibits, forklifts, crowds and various kind of objects
  • Turn on and off the earthquake
  • Turn on and off various analysis options
  • Run the analysis engine
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Post-Processor
  • The post-processor displays results in a very simplified way easy to understand by the non-technical user
  • Results are displayed as spectrum of colors that indicate the Demand to Capacity ratio
  • The colors range from very blue (cold) for small D/C ratios, and very red (hot) for D/C ratios above 100%
  • The user is then instructed to avoid getting red colors
  • If the user gets red colors, then he is instructed either to remove some objects, or move heavy objects closer to supports (bearing walls and columns)