Consultancy Projects

TNO DIANA BV in the Netherlands and its subsidiaries in the UK and North America offer a wide range of consulting services, based on many years of experience using DIANA. For example, the Company is involved in many analyses projects with advanced applications that focus on aspects of computational mechanics. In addition, we carry out research projects that lead to future extensions or enhancements of DIANA, or result in special versions of the DIANA program.

Currently, important research areas include:

• Coupled/Multiphysics problems: mechanics of porous media, spalling of concrete, freezing of ground and young hardening concrete
• Borehole stability problems
• Constitutive modeling of concrete
• Settlement damage on concrete and masonry constructions
• Pipelines
• Earthquake analysis

Further, TNO DIANA offers to carry out analysis consultancy services on behalf of its clients, or other parties, which include the modelling, analysis, interpretation and presentation of results in report or other format. This work is done with the DIANA software. Main expertise of our analysis consultancy work is in Structural, Geotechnical, and Oil & Gas Engineering. Some recently completed projects are:

• Nonlinear Shell-element FE analysis of Heteren viaduct (Structural/Bridge)
• Earthquake failure analysis of a 3D Highrise building (Earthquake)
• Aleppo Cement Storage Silo – Design checks (Structural)
• Cracking of reinforced concrete slabs (Structural)
• Buckling of cemented wellbore casing (Oil and Gas)
• Implementation of compaction/decompaction dependent elastic stiffness (Oil and Gas)
• Seismic Analysis for Greater Cairo Metro Line 3, Annexed Structures (Earthquake)
• 3D Analysis of Pentominium Residential Development Piled Raft (Foundations)
• 3D Analysis of Palazzo Versace and D1 Tower Piled Raft (Foundations)
• 3D Analysis of Dubai Tower Piled Raft (Foundations)
• 3D Analysis of Colindale Shaft (Tunnels)
• 3D Analysis Burj Plot 38 Piled raft (Foundations)