DS PLM SUCCESS STORY

Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Design Creating world famous structures with Dassault Systèmes PLM solutions

Overview

Challenge Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Designers of world class architecture Concerned with reigning in costs, customers Design Group needed to design China-based Shanghai Xian Dai expect shorter design times without innovative structures while maintaining Architectural Design Group (SXDA) is a sacrificing quality. To meet these challenges excellence at the lowest possible cost. cutting-edge scientific and technological and improve its competitiveness, SXDA company specializing in architectural chose Dassault Systèmes (DS) Product Solution design. Ranked in the top three of the Top Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural 100 Nationwide Prospecting & Design for all its design-to-construction processes. Design selected CATIA, , ENOVIA SmarTeam and companies in China by the State Ministry Virtools to address the complexities of Construction, it is also listed in the Top World class architecture inherent of architectural projects and 150 Global Design Firms by US magazine The Zendai Himalayan Art Center in to optimize design quality. Engineering News Record. Shanghai’s Pudong district is a symbol of the region’s recent economic growth. Benefits Modern architecture has become In order to create this innovative building, The DS solutions have enabled increasingly complex due to artistic and SXDA decided to use CATIA for the Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural technical requirements, which pose new design and SIMULIA for the virtual Design to shorten development times while improving design quality and challenges to architects attempting to structural integrity testing. reducing costs. create unique and never before built structures. SXDA is China’s top design The Center’s structure is bionic, which company responsible for world famous in architectural terms means it is an projects such as Shanghai’s World expressive building whose layout mimics Financial Center, the CCTV TV building, a natural entity, in this case, a root. Unlike the Zendai Himalayan Art Center, and traditional rectangular layouts and design the Taihu Pearl Hotel. schemes, the Zendai Himalayan Art “The DS solutions significantly enhance Center uses many curved forms and the quality of our designs and the safety surfaces reminiscent of structures in biology of our buildings. Both SXDA and our or fractal mathematics. customers benefit from an increase in quality and lower design costs.”

Wang Guojian Vice Chief Engineer & Senior Engineer, Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Design “The impressive 3D shape design CATIA’s powerful 3D shape design and interactive real-time solution for 3D lifelike capability provided by CATIA made the styling capabilities helped engineers experiences, is used in many scenarios design and construction of this bionic generate an accurate 3D model of the such as product experience, city planning, structure much easier. Thanks to outer, inner and middle surfaces of the and simulation-based training. SXDA CATIA, we accomplished mission structure. “The impressive 3D shape used 3DVIA Virtools to design and plan impossible.” design capability provided by CATIA made Shanghai Hongqiao Hub in a virtual the design and construction of this bionic environment. Engineers simulated the Wang Guojian structure much easier,” said Wang Guojian, flow of people and vehicles with 3DVIA Vice Chief Engineer & Senior Engineer, vice chief engineer & senior engineer, Virtools enabling them to better plan the Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Design Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Design. transportation hub. “It’s a good beginning “Thanks to CATIA, we accomplished and we believe there will be wider use mission impossible.” of virtual 3D technology in architectural projects in the future,” Wang added. Engineers used Unified Finite Element Analysis (FEA) from SIMULIA Using simulation to make skyscrapers to analyze the structure of the art center. safe The analysis showed specific areas in The safety of skyscrapers is an important the structure that needed reinforcement, issue for all architects. SIMULIA provides which improved safety, and even realistic simulation solutions that allow highlighted areas where extra steel could accurate predictions of strength and be removed without compromising deformations in structures in linear as structural integrity. “The customer was well as nonlinear and thermal configurations. amazed when we announced a 10% The modeling, meshing and results savings in steel thanks to optimization of visualization technology, coupled with our design using Abaqus,” said Wang. robust and proven analysis solvers, provide a complete and reliable solution Chosen for the online 2010 Shanghai for structural analysis. Static, modal, and World Expo, 3DVIA Virtools, DS’s dynamic analyses can be performed using a wide range of material models Li Chengming, vice director & senior and loading/boundary conditions. Building engineer, Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural structures along with the foundations Design said, “Realistic simulation can be modeled simultaneously and solutions from SIMULIA provided us with detailed effects due to contact and damage the most accurate and practical data that can be included in the analyses. enabled us to fulfill the complex nonlinear “Realistic simulation solutions from earthquake-resistant analysis. We are SIMULIA provided us with the most Earthquake response analysis is a good impressed with the computing and accurate and practical data that enabled example. Concrete buildings subjected analysis capabilities of Abaqus, which us to fulfill the complex nonlinear to earthquakes may undergo damage enables Chinese architects to virtually earthquake-resistant analysis.” in the first few seconds of seismic activity test the structural integrity of world-class Li Chengming that can affect their response in the later high-rise buildings.” Vice Director & Senior Engineer, phases of the earthquake. Analysis of Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Design this phenomenon requires estimation of ENOVIA for efficient data and project damage in structures and the inclusion management of the post-damage behavior in a fully SXDA uses ENOVIA for global collaborative dynamic large displacement analysis. lifecycle management to manage design data and enhance collaboration. In the Because of its strong nonlinear calculation past, SXDA was faced the challenge of capabilities, Abaqus FEA is perfectly managing large amounts of design data. suited for this type of analysis. The Working on different versions of design Shanghai World Financial Center, the data instead of one single version of the highest building in China, is 492m tall truth caused unnecessary delays and totaling 101 floors. SXDA architects used increased costs. To improve the overall the unique combination of implicit and level of its IT infrastructure, SXDA explicit technologies in Abaqus FEA for implemented a national research project. the dynamic analysis of the building’s One of the topics explored was product response to earthquake motion. data management solutions. SXDA implemented ENOVIA SmartTeam Better quality and higher efficiency “ENOVIA SmarTeam, which can at one of the group’s subsidiaries to The benefits SXDA has accrued through seamlessly combine multi-CAD and store and manage all product-related its use of DS solutions include the unique diverse data, enabled us to design more data. Thanks to ENOVIA’s powerful data bionic design of the Zendai Himalayan easily and efficiently. We are planning and project management capabilities, Art Center, the dynamic earthquake to extend the use of ENOVIA SmarTeam SXDA engineers can easily access all analysis of the tallest residential building to other subsidiaries in the group and up-to-date data and share the latest in China, and the buckling analyses of even to t