International Newsletter vol.16 2009/4
4.10.2009 FORUM8 Co., Ltd
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--------What's New at FORUM8--------
-Conference in May
-UC-win/Road Expert Training Seminar
-New Series "100 Best Bridges" Will Be Starting from Next Issue
-Civil Forum
-Tokyo City University
-New Product and Upgrade Information
--------Upcoming Events--------
-Upcoming International Events
-Seminar in Shanghai, Beijing, and Seoul
--------FORUM8 Homepage Information--------
-FAQ
-Web Estimate Service
-Technical Support Service for UC-win/Road Overseas Users
-User Information Page
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Please take an advantage of this event to learn more about our new product VR-Studio and how you can apply UC-win/Road to your work.
If you are interested in participating in the event, please contact us at for more information.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!!
*details subject to change
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| May-20-09 11:30 - 17:00 ( Reception: 10:30 ) |
Tokyo | Hall A, Tokyo Conference Center,
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Interpretation Hall A: Japanese - English / Chinese / Korean; Room 402: Japanese - English
Exhibits 6 axis motion SUBARU Experience Simulator UC-win/Road Experience Simulator (Try the "Driving Game" at the networking party for a chance to win a great prize) * UC-win/Road Demo Simulator * UC-win/Road 3D Stereo Theater
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UC-win/Road Expert training seminar will be
held for agencies which sell UC-win/Road and consultants who suggest VR business
using UC-win/Road.
Related information -the 9th UC-win/Road Conference
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| 1st day: 13:00 - 17:30 | 13:00-13:30 Basic knowledge of UC-win/RoadVR 13:30-15:30 Practical use of sales tools 15:40-17:30 Process for innovation |
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A new series of column "100 Best Bridges" will be starting from the next issue ("Up & Coming" dated May 1st, 2009). While there is a severe discussion on public works projects, social infrastructures play an important part in development of economy in our country, or in improving convenience and comfort of people's life. Especially for bridges, a large amount of stock has been accumulated from the postwar rehabilitation period through the rapid growth era; in addition, it is an urgent task to deal with maintenance and renewal of the bridges under aging and obsolescence. Since there are many bridges with excellent design, we focus on the cases that people have loved and been treating with care through civic life and present them in a series, including their design elements. This will be based on the effort of selecting 100 best bridges by regions through applications open to the public conducted by the branches of Kanto, Chubu, and Kinki areas of NPO IT Station "Citizens and Construction." Members of these branches will pick up most characteristic ones from each "100 Best Bridges," telling stories about their overviews and features, their regional and cultural value, relations with civic life, and so on, illustrated with photos. |
NPOs Including Those Supported by FORUM8 Made an Appeal to Public on The Role of Construction Engineers
On February 5th, Civil Forum was held entitled "The roles of NPOs and groups of engineers in the fields of construction --- aiming at social contribution, self-realization of construction engineers, and activation of NPOs" sponsored by five NPOs (non-profit organizations) in relation with civil engineering and construction at the lecture hall of Japanese Society of Civil Engineers (Yotsuya, Tokyo).
"This is not only a part of promotion of cooperation among NPOs, but also the 5th Forum to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the forum series of 'Land planning and town planning based on public involvement' held annually by our NPO," says Mr. Yoshihisa Hanamura, Chief Director of NPO IT Station "Citizens and Construction" (Citizens and Construction), clarifying the position of this forum.
Citizens and Construction initiated its activities as an NPO in November 2003. Its goals are to promote public involvement in public works projects, and thus contribute to creation of environment comfortable to live in and planning lands and towns that are rich and safe. To achieve these goals, Citizens and Construction pursues a mission to bridge citizens and governments with regard to land planning and town planning, providing related information to the public. It also collaborates with civil activities aiming at utilization of public facilities and structures with emphasis on environment and disaster prevention. In addition, it is also planning to support utilization of IT (information technology) that is a key to having communication among the parties involved, as well as to encourage computerization of national land and utilization of IT in the construction industry. Through these activities, it has held different forums and seminars.
Citizens and Construction reconfirmed its initial visions at the opportunity of 5th year of establishment as a corporation (6th year of establishment). Then it drew up a scheme of energizing its activities more in order to fulfill its social responsibility along with networking NOPs for civil engineering and working to solve common problems in cooperation. In August 2008, "Civil NPO Liaison Conference" (tentative name) was established, consisting of five NPOs including Citizens and Construction, Onkososhin-no-kai, Engineers Without Borders, Hashimori (Bridge Keeper) Support Center, and Hito to Michi Kenkyukai (Society for the research of people and roads). Through examining various issues, they came to plan Civil Forum aiming at appealing to the society concerning such efforts and ideas.
Please go tohttp://www.forum8.com/english/fair-e-3.htm#2009-NPO for the full text.
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| Mr. Yoshihisa Hanamura, Chief Director, NPO IT Station "Citizens and Construction" |
Panel discussion at Civil Forum |
Up& Coming No. 78 has been updated.
Please go to http://www.forum8.com/english/topics-e.htm to find out what's new.
Overseas News on Civil Engineering IT has been added on it.
Please check it at AASHTO - Economic Recovery "Yes We Can!"
--To Place Weight on the Research Ahead by Effectively Using the Tool Functions, Practicing Unique Design Exercises with Various Software Packages
Having the 80th anniversary this year, Musashi Institute of Technology will be renamed as "Tokyo City University" in April when the new semester begins. This issue introduces Dept. of Urban and Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, which covers the field of civil engineering, one of the main pillars of the Institute since its foundation. Special focus will be placed on the efforts of efficiently advancing the essential research by effectively utilizing useful software programs in the course of "Disaster Prevention Engineering" in the Dept, where research is made on improvement of the safety of structures forming urban infrastructure and on disaster mitigation throughout the urban system.
"Dr. Yoshikawa's Lab for Structural Safety" of the course verifies historical disaster cases, covering social infrastructure directly linked with public life including bridges, based on the urban environment in our country, which is subject to be exposed at the threat of various types of natural disasters. The Lab operates classes and research on disaster prevention technologies to mitigate damages caused by such disasters.
Aiming to use functions of superb software programs actively in these processes, the Lab has so far introduced FORUM8 products including "UC-win/FRAME(3D)," which is a 3-D analysis program for space-framed structures, "UC-win/Section," which is a section calculation program that considers biaxial bending for optional shapes of reinforced concrete and steel framed reinforced concrete, "Pier design" for earthquake-resistant design, reinforcement calculation, and preparing drawings based on the seismic coefficient method and the ultimate lateral strength method during earthquakes, "RC substructure design calculation" for design calculation of substructures and RC structures including Rahmen type piers and abutments, and "Mobile UC-1," which is a mobile tool for civil engineering calculation. While devising approaches to innovative design exercises using these programs, the Lab has developed software packages as well as provided open seminars in cooperation with FORUM8. Other Faculties and Departments have also adopted "UC-win/Road," which is a 3-D real-time VR (virtual reality) software product, and "Multiframe," a 3-D structural analysis software product.
We interviewed Dr. Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Professor (Dr. Yoshikawa's Lab for Structural Safety: belonging to the Earthquake Risk Management Laboratory, Advanced Research Laboratories since October, 2008), Visiting Researcher Aoto Hiroki, and Dr. Tetsuhiko Kurihara, Associate Professor (Dr. Kurihara's Lab for Structural Safety), and others.
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| Engineer's
StudioTM / Basic price 346,500 yen Three dimensional layered plate model / Optional price 105,000 yen "Maekawa model" (Layered plate) / Optional price 682,500 yen |
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The leading function of Engineer's studioTM - Engineer's StudioTM
-It supports "Maekawa model" which is high-level of concrete analytic theory in the word.
-It enables to do back-check for existing designed structures by new analysis.
-It is capable to accommodate for various range of construction analysis such as middling plate,
large deformation analysis and so on.
It has new CAD interface such as ribbon control and input navigation, etc.
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developer We promise that we will continue to focus on Civil engineering filed. We believe that we always have to check that the analysis methods being generally used are whether sufficient or not. It is necessary to improve the quality of analysis by new technique. We expect that our strategy will be good enough so that it can help to build the safety infrastructures and give the wonderful business opportunities. Engineer's Studio is going to release on 27 February 2009. This release can be a big step for our strategy. UC-win/FRAME(3D) has been innovated a fibre element. It can be a good chance to compare between ordinary computation method and fibre element. Adding the checking function to design, UC-win/FRAME(3D) has been upgraded to use for daily design and analysis. Engineer's Studio has "Maekawa concrete model" in the middling plate. We have understood that Prof Maekawa's major study is spirit of innovation, so we decided to implement "two dimensional concrete" to our software called UC-win/FRAME(3D) as a solver. Someone may wonder why we understand "Maekawa model" by ourselves and innovate it into the solver. Why didn't we use the solver was based on the existing research and develop only an interface? We have already known the needs that our users want for analysis tool. Hence we understood "Maekawa model" by ourselves and mount it to UC-win/FRAME(3D)'s solver so that we could provide the full integrated solver and a latest interface to users. In the result, users can access all analysis functions which we provide by using a product. We developed the solver based on our discussion with Prof Maekawa. We have realized how proper his advice was and do appreciate it. The graphical engine of Engineer's Studio has been design as the function such as 3D CAD from the beginning. Thus we could achieve to provide new functions and to refine its performance than UC-win/FRAME(3D). We expect that Engineer's Studio will be a strong tool on your daily work. We will strongly focus on developing Engineer's Studio and add various kinds of functions. Engineer's Studio has been designed as several different options. We are planning to add new option in the future. For us, the release of Engineer's Studio means that regarding the grade average of software and the analysis ability, the new age starts. We look forward to that all of our users can be given grater chances of analysis by using Engineer's Studio and it can be used for new construction type.
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Optional price Items marked with an asterisk (*) are unsupported in the first version. They will be supported from next version.
| 1 | Eigenvalue analysis | 20,000 yen (21,000 yen tax included) |
| 2 | Dynamic analysis | 20,000 yen (21,000 yen tax included) |
| 3 | MPhi element (Nonlinear) | 70,000 yen (\73,500 yen tax included) |
| 4 | Spring element (Nonlinear) | 70,000 yen (73,500 yen tax included) |
| 5 | Fibre element (Nonlinear) | 20,000 yen (21,000 yen tax included) |
| 6 | Geometric nonlinear model | 20,000 yen (21,000 yen tax included) |
| 7 | Japanese specification / supporting bar element / live load analysis * | 20,000 yen (21,000 yen tax included) |
| 8 | Dynamic nonlinear analysis for three dimensional layered plate (Nonlinear) | 100,000 yen (105,000 yen tax included) |
| 9 | Maekawa concrete model (layered plate) | 650,000 yen (682,500 yen tax included) |
| 10 | Design checking: ES Section 3D (Japanese specification option)* | 120,000 yen (126,000 yen tax included) |
| 11 | Design checking: JSCE Stress computation of Steel section* | 30,000 yen (31,500 yen tax included) |
| 12 | Design checking: Specification for highway bridges (the average of three waves, residual displacement)* |
30,000 yen (31,500 yen tax included) |
| We have special price for education version and users who have UC-win/FRAME(3D) Advance. For more information, please contact us. |
UC-win/Road Micro Simulation Player
Micro Simulation Player is the function to run various type of simulation animation which is depicted as 3D models' movement.
This function's aim is that to implement a major plug-in to run the simulation result from other application and to define the XML format used to save the result then to release to our user. Thus our users can customize their simulation result to depict by UC-win/Road. Using this function, it enables to do all kind of micro simulation such as vehicle and railway and look after plan management, transfer objects at a factory, control heavy machinery in civil engineering filed, easily link with other applications and UC-win/Road. At the same time, the SDK (Software Development Kit) will be extended so that it is available to link with simulator and simulation software in real time.
Major specification
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function: 3D model's animation based on released xml format. It is available to create various type of 3D model's animation based on the information of model's location. It enables to run several data at the same time. 2) Snap function for vehicle and pedestrians: It is capable to locate objects such as vehicle and pedestrian on the road and the lane, the pedestrian, the ground. 3) The control for the existing objects: It is available to control static objects such as traffic light. 4) The control for drawing objects: Time, weather, light and so on. 5) The drawing effect control for the objects: Move command, state of traffic light, transparent, MD3 character animation. 6) The optimal integration with the functions of UC-win/Road: Traffic, script, camera mode. |
The detail of function
File format
The XML format saving an animation data can move 3D model and define it in all scene.
This file doesn't have 3D mesh of the models, however it keep a link to the 3D model which is connected.
Model instance
"Model instance" has the information of "TYPE" so that it can be linked to model's profile. Moreover, "instance" has the static list which is defined by the time so that it can set the location and the direction, animation, state of display for each condition. Two type of "model instance" are available; temporary "Temporary instance" and "scene instance". "Temporary instance" can be created in real time during running simulation, however, it can't be saved as UC-win/Road project. The 3D model's profile was selected when it was created can be used. When the profile hasn't been admeasured, "Instance" won't be created. "Scene instance" can be created as same as "Temporary instance", however it will be saved as the project. This instance can be allocated as the part of scenery to the existing model of a current UC-win/Road project. Traffic light is pointed to as an example of "Scene instance". During running simulation, the "instance" created by UC-win/Road is controlled by xml data.
Please go tohttp://www.forum8.com/topic/up78-p10-e.htm for the more information.
UC-win/RoadDB Sample Data Download Information
Sample data have become available since UC-win/Road Ver. 3.04.04. Let us intorduce the feature from our sample data collection
Sample Data
World heritage sample data <as of February 19, 2009>
- Historic Areas of Istanbul (the Republic of Turkey)
- Angkor Vat (the Kingdom of Cambodia)
- Borobudur Temple Compounds (the Republic of Indonesia)
- Gyeongju Historic Areas (the People's Republic of China)
- The Great Wall of China (the People's Republic of China)
- Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang (the People's Republic of China)
- Sydney opera house (Australia)
- Historic District of Old Que'bec (Canada)
- Churches of Chiloe (the Republic of Chile)
- Kiyomizu-dera Temple (Japan)
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UC-win/Road Ecological Drive Plug-in
| Introduction The Ecological drive plug-in of UC-win/Road is new plug-in which calculates fuel consumption and carbon footprint of driving and make a graph using driving log of UC-win/Road. Evaluation Formula of Carbon Footprint *1 Generally, carbon footprint based on vehicle running has been know to be in proportion to fuel consumption so that it is clear to be able to quantify adequately by three factors such as "travelling time T" and "travel distance D", "Feature of fluctuant vehicle speed". Eco driving plug-in calculates fuel consumption and carbon footprint using a formula (1) based on a result of driving log.  E: Discharge amount of CO2 for travel time (kg-C) T: Travel time (sec) D: Travel distance (m) K The number of speed measurement point : When a speed is higher than at the previous point; 1 Other case; 0 vk: Running speed at "k" point (m/sec) Kc: Emission factor CO2 0.00231 kg-C/petro cc (Ministry of Environment, 1999) * 1 T.Oguchi, M.Ktakura and M.Taniguchi" Carbondioxide emission model in actual urban road vehicular traffic conditions", Journal of Infrastructure Planning and Management (JSCE), No.695/IV-54, pp.125-136 Major Feature It has "Ecology drive log output star" and "Save Ecology drive log as", "Calculate carbon footprint" as UC-win/Road tool's menu and is available to output a driving log or to calculate carbon footprint by selecting any one from these tools. It can change each parameter in the evaluation formula of carbon footprint as well. It saves the ecological drive log as data file so that we can re-create the calculated result later. In the result of "Calculate carbon footprint", the values such as Travel time (T) and Travel distance (D), fuel consumption (Q), carbon footprint are displayed. A number of graphs are available in the graph create function, for instance, acceleration and speed, fuel consumption per time, cumulative fuel consumption, carbon footprint per hour, cumulative carbon footprint. Moreover, we can output a result as CSV file and use it with Microsoft Excel. Validation Example We had an experiment that we drove around ordinary city in UC-win/Road and studied a relationship between driving condition and carbon footprint to research the relationship between "sudden starting/sudden stop" and carbon footprint. Major conditions are follows; (1) Drive a course which distance is 1km, (2) Must stop at a cross section, (3) No limited speed, (4) Try several different type of driving from gentle drive to rough drive. Then we got the following result.
Conclusion: When we repeat to start driving and stop suddenly, the result of both fuel consumption and carbon footprint are tend to increase. On the other hand, when we try to drive gently, the results of both fuel consumption and carbon footprint are tend to decrease. Thus we expect to decrease carbon footprint when we drive gently.
UC-win/Road Ecology drive plug-in Released Date (scheduled); March, 2009. |
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As you know that we provide the analysis support service by UC-win/FRAME(3D), once we release the Engineer's Studio,
we start providing an analysis support service by Engineer's Studio as well.
A process of this support service is the same as UC-win/FRAME(3D)'s support service.
Figure1. Service Flow
We will introduce a case study by Engineer's Studio. For convenience of page space,
we will skip a further detail.
1. Analysis using flat plate element
Using flat plate element, it is available to analyze a construction having walls as member of a structure.
And we use "reinforced concrete nonlinear constitutive law (Smeared crack model)" which was developed
by concrete lab at Tokyo University and well known in the world as flat plate element. Our flat plate element can
extend reinforced concrete of UC-win/WCOMD to thickness direction and analyse not only internal deformation
but also external deformation of nonlinear behaviour as well.
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| Figure 2 An example result of the long side loading (Side panel display) |
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| Figure 3 An example result of the long and short side loading at the same time (Flat display) |
Figure 2 shows a result of displacement loading horizontal direction for a under ground wall construction.
It is modeled by elasticity flat plate element. It visualizes an internal aspect without displaying a front wall.
Figure 3 shows a result of displacement loading horizontal force in an oblique direction. Top surface is transmitted.
It is available to see a model either from top or side in Engineer's Studio.
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| Figure 4 An example of flat plate element to represent RC beam |
Figure 4 shows a result using Smeared crack model developed by concrete lab at Tokyo University.
We could display conditions of displacement and crack step by step.
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2. Analysis using fibre element
An analysis using fibre element as a nonlinear analysis of beam element is available as well as .
It is capable to analyze for constructions which axial force changing or two axial spring is happened
such as nonlinear of steel bridge and so on.
For convenience of page space, we only introduce case example, however by comparison of UC-win/FRAME(3D),
Engineer's Studio can be widely applied. When you use Engineer's Studio, please concern to use Analysis Support System.
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The seminars provide attendees an opportunity to acquire up-to-date information about our product.
One of the main goals of these seminars is to explain analysis and design
techniques which abound in the industry. Participation fee is free!
| International Seminar Venue Shanghai - Shanghai Seminar room (FORUM8 Technology Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.) Beijing - Conference room (Beijing Tepia Technology Co.,Ltd) Seoul - Seminar room (BasisSoft, Inc.) |
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| Seminar | Date | Venue |
| UC-win/Road - VR | 27 May 2009 | Seoul |
| 4 June 2009 | Shanghai | |
| 5 June 2009 | Beijing | |
| 9 July 2009 | Shenzhen | |
| UC-win/Road Advanced | 15 April 2009 | Seoul |
| 16 April 2009 | Shanghai | |
| 17 April 2009 | Beijing | |
| 2 June 2009 | Seoul | |
| 24 September 2009 | Shenzhen | |
| UC-win/Road for Civil 3D | 18 June 2009 | Shanghai |
| 19 June 2009 | Beijing | |
| 18 August 2009 | Shenzhen | |
| VR-Studio | 21 July 2009 | Shanghai / Beijin / Shenzhen |
| 11 August 2009 | Seoul | |
| UC-win/Road SDK | 16 September 2009 | Seoul |
| 2 October 2009 | Shanghai / Beijin / Shenzhen | |
| Engineer's Studio/ UC-win/FRAME (3D) | 15 May 2009 | Shanghai and Beijing |
| 28 May 2009 | Seoul | |
| 15 August 2009 | Shanghai / Beijin / Shenzhen | |
| 8 September 2009 | Seoul | |
| GeoFEAS2D / GeoFEAS 3D | 4 August 2009 | Shanghai / Beijin / Shenzhen |
| 10 September 2009 | Seoul | |
| EXODUS - SMARTFIRE | 11 June 2009 | Shanghai / Beijin / Shenzhen |
| 15 July 2009 | Seoul | |
| xpswmm | 10 June 2009 | Shanghai and Beijing |
| OSCADY/TRANSYT | 12 June 2009 | Shanghai and Beijing |
| 6 August 2009 | Seoul | |
| DesignBuilder | 25 June 2009 | Shanghai and Beijing |
| 26 June 2009 | Seoul | |
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| Participation Fee | Free | |
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We will participate in a number of overseas events. Please come to visit us in the booth to learn
more about our product line-up. Look forward to meeting you!
ITE conferences in USA for 2009
22-25 March 2009
http://www.ite.org/meetcon/index.asp
ITS America 2009 Annual Meeting and Exhibition
1-3 June 2009
http://www.itsa.org/annualmeeting.html
ITS Stockholm 2009
21-25 September 2009
http://www.itsworldcongress.com
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