Innovative Uses of Sam

Here are some examples where Sam either has something special to offer, or has been used in a particularly creative way by one of our customers.

• Plastic Member Limits shows how Sam can model the true post-elastic behaviour of materals at ULS, and hence allows plastic redistribution of moments.
  
  
• Load Optimisation shows how Sam can optimise for maximum effect for even complex geometry such as a reverse curved bridge deck.
  
  
• Temperature Effects shows how Sam can be used to model the effects of temperature at the edges of portal slab-and-wall structures.
  
  
• Composite Members shows how Sam easily derives moment doagrams for complex plate finite element analysis models.
  
  
• Prestressed Beams shows how Sam can quickly determine the optimum precast pretensioned beam geometry.