Digital Twins Will Benefit from Authoritative
ADINA Simulations for Enhanced Infrastructure Resilience
Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure
engineering software company, today announced it has acquired
Watertown, Massachusetts-based ADINA R & D Inc., a leading
developer of finite element analysis software applications used in
a comprehensively diverse range of engineering fields (adina.com).
ADINA was founded in 1986 by Dr. Klaus-Jürgen Bathe, professor of
mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and a world-renowned leader in the field of finite element analysis
and its applications.
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The frictional sliding of a prestressed
concrete bridge girder can be studied with ADINA technology.
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Civil, structural, and mechanical engineers choose ADINA
software for its authoritative veracity, including in analysis of
buildings, bridges, stadiums, pressure vessels, dams, and tunnels.
By virtue of the ADINA System’s integral robustness across
disciplines, materials, and simulation domains (structures,
mechanical, fluids, thermal, electromagnetic, and multi-physics),
engineers use it to perform comprehensive safety and performance
studies where reliability and resilience are of critical
importance.
With infrastructure digital twins, users can simulate the
complete behavior of structures to create confidence in designs
that are much safer and more cost-effective than those merely
analyzed to meet prescribed code standards. Of particular
importance for infrastructure resilience, ADINA will also be
applied within digital twins of existing infrastructure assets, now
made practical by the Bentley iTwin platform, to simulate their
responses and vulnerabilities to stresses so extreme that nonlinear
effects must be considered—caused (for instance) by seismic, wind,
flood, pressure, thermal, collision, or blast forces.
The ADINA System’s nonlinear simulation capabilities will in
turn become directly accessible, through convenient technical and
commercial integration, to users of Bentley Systems’ uniquely
comprehensive modeling and simulation software portfolio for
infrastructure engineering. As the ADINA System’s nonlinear
extensions are introduced to complement these existing physical
simulation applications—currently spanning STAAD, RAM, SACS, MOSES,
AutoPIPE, PLAXIS, LEAP, RM, LARS, SPIDA, and PLS—the scope of
mainstream simulation underlying the engineering of infrastructure
resilience will be valuably enhanced. ADINA’s advantages also
include advanced dynamics, 3D solid FEM, buckling, substructuring,
and advanced meshing for critical joints and sections.
“Incorporating ADINA and its creators is very exciting for all
of our engineering simulation teams, as it will also be for
existing and new users,” said Raoul Karp, vice president,
engineering simulation at Bentley Systems. “Dr. Bathe literally
wrote the book on advancing finite element simulations, and the
ADINA System provides the reference for benchmarking all other
disparate analysis approaches. We will now be able to extend
nonlinear realism across all of our infrastructure digital twin
simulation offerings.”
Founder of ADINA Dr. K.J. Bathe, who will remain as a technical
advisor, said, “My colleagues and I are proud to be joining Bentley
Systems’ broad and deep simulation team. Our aim in the development
of ADINA has always been to provide a most reliable and efficient
analysis tool to scientists and engineers, and it is wonderful that
with Bentley, ADINA will now be used and further developed with
great potential for solving the varied and interrelated challenges
of infrastructure resilience.”
Image 1: Caption: The frictional sliding of a prestressed
concrete bridge girder can be studied with ADINA technology.
Image 2: Caption: Collapse analysis of pressurized pipe can be
performed with ADINA software.
Image 3: Caption: Simulation of a pipe break in a nuclear
reactor using ADINA technology.
Image 4: Caption: Sloshing of an oil tank with the base
subjected to horizontal ground motion with ADINA software.
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About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering
software company. We provide innovative software to advance the
world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and
environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by
professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design,
construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and
transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities,
buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities. Our
offerings include MicroStation-based applications for modeling and
simulation, ProjectWise for project delivery, AssetWise for asset
and network performance, Seequent’s leading geoprofessional
software portfolio, and the iTwin platform for infrastructure
digital twins. Bentley Systems employs more than 4,500 colleagues
and generates annual revenues of approximately $1 billion in 186
countries. www.bentley.com
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