Banco de pruebas de programas de cálculo de estructuras de edificación disponibles en el mercado español
[EN] Architecture education in Spain presents a vast technical component which includes the capacity for analyzing and designing building structures. The current architectural context encompasses buildings with an increasing structural complexity which demands the necessary use of computer tools. Pr...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/63144 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/63144 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Banco de pruebas Fiabilidad Programas informáticos Cálculo de estructuras Edificación Nave industrial Estructura metálica Arquitectura Mercado español MECANICA DE LOS MEDIOS CONTINUOS Y TEORIA DE ESTRUCTURAS |
| Sumario: | [EN] Architecture education in Spain presents a vast technical component which includes the capacity for analyzing and designing building structures. The current architectural context encompasses buildings with an increasing structural complexity which demands the necessary use of computer tools. Professionals looking for a building analysis and design software face substantial difficulties when trying to find not only a listing of commercial products available on the market, but also comprehensive studies about their characteristics, especially regarding their functionality and reliability. National codes neither standardize this type of computer tools' performance, nor supply guidelines which enable the comparison of their features and performance or, at least, which enable to validate the functioning of a certain one. Simultaneously, available international bibliography is scarce, dispersed and clueless about how to confront these tasks independently. Therefore, the current doctoral thesis meets the challenge of developing a testbed which enables users to discover and even to quantify the reliability of different building structures analysis and design software available on the Spanish market. The testbed is configured as a study case, whose plan and methodology have been borrowed from the computer engineering field where it presents an important background and theoretical development. Its dynamics invite users to assess software by modelling and solving the structure of an industrial building. This typology, its features and dimensions have been chosen because of their good representation of the daily commissions of the results' recipients. During the process, users must compile the results for twenty check points. Values for support reactions, internal forces and movements in certain points and load cases, as well as the final size for certain elements are to be determined. The results obtained should be compared with those determined by a strict code application. SAP2000 has been used to solve the analysis and a thorough process by hand has been completed to fulfill the design. A user handbook has been elaborated for the testbed. It contains all necessary instructions for the process completion, as well as a set of cards which facilitate the compilation of results and even allow users to determine a final grading from 0 to 10 points. Commercial versions of Generador de Pórticos and Nuevo Metal 3D of CYPECAD, Tricalc and Architrave have been chosen because of their widespread deployment on the nowadays market and have been tested. Their study has verified the testbed validity and has also permitted to draw important conclusions. Prominent among these, is the remarkable value dispersion in some cases. Surprisingly, it is not a consequence of an inaccurate computation, but of the simplifications due to the attractive automation for certain tasks which these software offer to their users, which frequently lead to oversizing. Dispersion is also caused by insufficient law enforcement, as long as the omission of taking into account certain code articles might result in worrying undersizing. It is intended that the manufactured testbed becomes a public tool with free access and use. Hence, interested users will be able to easily accede to it and to share their results with the professional, business and scientific community. |
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