Lead: TM2 – Vladimir Milovanović
Before the application of developed software on real case problems, a software development procedure considers verification as a necessary step to stable release. Preparation of Verification and application plan will be adopted to define all the details in WP4. It will include searching for benchmark examples for verification (e.g. bending, shear, punching, buckling) in scientific articles in top international journals, example manuals for a FEM software, tutorials, and PhD thesis. Verification objective, approach, examples and levels of verification (functionality, accuracy, applicability) will be defined with respect to the current stage of the PAK-DAM development and updated with the new releases of PAK-DAM. The application of PAK-DAM will be planned by design of case studies in communication with the stakeholders in Serbia.
The FEM examples will be prepared according to the adopted verification strategy and plan. The simulations will be performed continuously beginning with the alpha version of PAK-DAM software tool, across the beta version and final simulations will be completed using the release version of PAK-DAM. Verification simulations will be automated by preparation of executable control.sh script which will perform simulations of 1D, 2D, 3D, examples for steel, aluminum and concrete examples. Comparison of numerical and experimental results will be automatized by providing script wrappers which will control the process. The obtained results will be presented in “Example manual for PAK-DAM software tool”. The detailed description of the examples including figures, material parameters, output results compared to the representative experimental or literature results will be given for each example. In communication with the stakeholders in Serbia and Spain and current demands for the damage assessment of metal and concrete structures, the representative structure will be created as 3D model, FEM mesh will be prepared with the boundary and loading conditions, PAK-DAM analysis will be performed, and the simulation results will be visualized to suggest critical zones.
