With increasingly complex requirements across aesthetic, architectural, structural and health and safety dimensions, architects and developers face the challenge of satisfying multiple operational constraints. Compliance is a key part of any major project due to ambitious designs such as the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing. Occupant comfort and safety have become paramount due to the high capacity of such structures.
dezineforce design search and optimisation tools have been used recently to provide an even and consistent cooling effect for spectators in a major stadium facility. By modelling the structural and flow characteristics the optimal design for each section was analysed resulting in an equalised air flow rates & cooling for every spectator. dezineforce tools helped to reduce both design and analysis times and to achieve design improvements that provided an uniform cooling effect for each spectator.
Other instances where dezineforce design search and optimisation approach have found relevance are
- ventilation/safety analysis for long tunnel projects to keep temperature below a max limit for fire for 60 mins
- structural bridge analysis focused on weight reduction and model analysis
- building structures to optimise the structural design, member sizes, minimise cost/weight of structure