The NAFEMS Benchmark Challenge
Introduction
This project comprised the setting of eight challenges and the associated responses:
Challenge & Response Number 1:
Stress at the Centre of a Square Plate with Linear Boundary Tractions
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Challenge & Response Number 2:
Assessment of a Simply Supported Plate with Uniformly Distributed Load
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Challenge & Response Number 3:
Understanding and Explaining the Nature of the Plane Strain Approximation
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Challenge & Response Number 4:
Poisson's Ratio for a Steel Plate
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Challenge & Response Number 5:
Dynamic Characteristics of a Truss Structure
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Challenge & Response Number 6:
The Sleipner Incident - A Computer-Aided Catastrophe Revisited
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Challenge & Response Number 7:
Modelling Beam Members with Finite Elements
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Challenge & Response Number 8:
Calculation of the Hoop Burst Speed for Rotating Discs
Team
Angus Ramsay - Author
Edward Maunder - Primary Technical Review
Ian Symington (Technical Officer NAFEMS) - Primary Technical Review
Savvas Triantafyllou (Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nottingham) - NAFEMS Reviewer
Professor Nawal Prinja (Technical Director, Clean Energy AMEC Foster Wheeler) - NAFEMS Reviewer
Useful Links
NAFEMS Books
The challenges are published as two collections: