
 | Throughout his career, Rene Greisch has inspired the Greisch office team with a spirit of research and innovation which makes its reputation with architects and building owners.
If this spirit of research and innovation materialises initially in the structures or the works that Greisch office designs and/or dimensions, it is also omnipresent at the level of the computational tools placed at the disposal of its engineers.
Greisch office is at the forefront of the developments of numerical calculation and comprises in its centre a Research and Development cell, formed from several engineers, doctors of Applied Sciences. This develops its own calculation programs in collaboration with the University of Liege.
The complete control of its resources enables Greisch office to work with the dimensioning of more innovating works while drawing from the latest calculation techniques available, while unceasingly endeavouring to improve them.
Thus, Greisch office can deal with any special design which the consultant engineering profession requires. In particular, a structure can be examined under a static and dynamic loading (transitory analysis or by modal superposition) in the non-linear field with the taking into account of large displacements, of any instability phenomenon (buckling, unloading, warping...) and of the real mechanical behaviour of the material (plasticity of steel; ageing, cracking, creep and shrinking of the concrete,...).
By way of examples, the FINELG calculation program, developed on the basis of the finite element method, makes it possible to simulate a structure numerically:
In non-linear statics, taking into account the evolution of its geometry and its loading,
In dynamics, under the effect
- of turbulent wind or of an earthquake,
- movement of pedestrians on a footbridge,
- of any vehicle (TGV, road convoy) taking into account of the vehicle/structure interaction.> references |