20th Annual Users Group Meeting & Training Seminar
June 23 - 26
Las Vegas, NV

Agenda

Monday - June 23

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Welcome Reception - Flamingo Hotel   (Carson City 1)

Tuesday - June 24

8:00am - 8:30am

Registration & Continental Breakfast   (Carson City 1)

8:30am - 8:45am

"Welcome" 

Chris Wandell
Arizona Public Service Company

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station

8:45am - 10:00am

"GT STRUDL Version 30 & Beyond"

Dr. Kenneth ("Mac") Will
Georgia Tech - CASE Center

10:00am - 10:20am

Break

10:20am - 11:10am

"Structural Analysis of Lightning Protection System for New Launch Vehicle"

Anne Cope, Steve Moore, & Rich Pruss

Reynolds Smith & Hills, Inc.

11:10am - 12:00pm

"Dynamic Analysis of Fan Foundation"

Mahendra Madhaven

Southern Company Services

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch   (Carson City 2)

1:00pm - 1:50pm

"GT STRUDL's UNISTRUT Design"

Chris Wandell

Arizona Public Service Company

1:50pm - 2:00pm

Break

2:00pm - 2:50pm

"Design and Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Elevated Water Towers Using GT STRUDL"

M.K. Kumudini Jayawardena

Ceywater Consultant (Pvt.) Ltd.

2:50pm - 3:40pm

"Experience of Cable-Stayed Bridge Analysis"

Dmitry Derevyankin & Dmitry Maslov

Institute Giprostroymost - Saint-Petersburg

5:00pm - 10:00pm

Dinner - Social Event

Wednesday - June 25

8:00am - 8:30am

Continental Breakfast  (Carson City 1)

8:30am - 9:20am

"Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis of a Composite Structure on a Backfill Hilltop"

Lisa M. Anderson

Bechtel Savannah River Inc.

&

Jayprakash Amin

Washington Savannah River Company

9:20am - 10:10am

"Evaluation of the Sandwich Plate System in Bridge Decks Using a Plate Approach, a Comparison between ANSYS and GT STRUDL Models"

Devin Harris

Michigan Tech

&

Chris Carroll

Virginia Tech

10:10am - 10:25am

Break

10:25am - 11:15am

"Analysis and Design of DuPont's Steel Framing Systems Using WinSCADS and GT STRUDL"

Magdy S. Roufaiel

Roufaiel Assoc. Int'l, Inc.

&

Jeffrey A. Stokes

E.I. DuPont De Nemours and Company

11:15am - 11:30am

"Nomination & Election of Officers"

11:30am - 12:00pm

"Concurrent Committee Breakout Sessions" (group participation)

Analysis/Design Committee
Bridge Committee
Interface Committee
Quality Committee

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Lunch (Mesquite Restaurant)

1:30pm - 2:20pm

"Mesh Generation for Arbitrary Domains in GT STRUDL"

James B. Deaton

Georgia Tech - CASE Center

2:20pm - 3:10pm

"The GT STRUDL Base Plate Wizard"

Robert Abernathy

Georgia Tech - CASE Center

3:10pm - 3:25pm

Break

3:25pm - 4:15pm

"Implementation of NRC Guide 1.92 Revision 2 in GT STRUDL Response Spectrum Analysis"

Dr. Michael Swanger

Georgia Tech - CASE Center

 

4:15pm - 5:00pm

"Emkin Files"

Dale Brasuell

Structural Desktop Inc.

 

Thursday - June 26

8:00am - 8:30am

Continental Breakfast   (Carson City 1)

8:30am - 9:30am

Closing Session

GT STRUDL "Award for Excellence" Presentation
Committee Reports

9:30am - 9:45am

Break

GT STRUDL Training

9:45am - 10:30am

"Stability Analysis & Design of Steel Frame Structures by the 2005 AISC Specification Direct Analysis Method"

Dr. Leroy Z. Emkin

Georgia Tech - CASE Center

10:30am - 12:00pm

"Training on New Features in Version 30"

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Lunch(Carson City 2)


 


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