Study level

  • Vacation research experience scheme

Faculty/School

Faculty of Engineering

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Topic status

We're looking for students to study this topic.

Research centre

Supervisors

Professor Tommy Chan
Position
Professor in Civil Engineering
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Engineering

Overview

There exist a number of methods for bridge deck analysis, e.g. grillage analysis, finite element analysis.

SECAN is a software based on Semi-continuum method for bridge deck analysis. Its latest version is developed using MicrosoftVisual Studio.

This project aims to improve the software for comparison with other bridge deck analyses.

Research activities

SECAN was developed using Visual Studio to conduct bridge deck analysis, which could be executed under Windows XP. By including some system files it could also be executed under Windows 10. Students are required to improve the software so that it could be executed under Windows 10 (or Windows 11) directly. An option is to translate it first to Python and test each of the subprograms.

Outcomes

This project aims to improve the software for comparison with other bridge deck analyses.

Expected outcomes - an improved version of SECAN, based on which some comparative studies on few bridge deck will be conducted.

Skills and experience

It is expected the student working on the project needs to have some background of experience in Window programming or some experience in python language programming or prepared to conduct research to learn that. It is also expected that the students should have been equipped with structural analysis techniques.

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