Patent ID: 6721684
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: E04B,G06F

Abstract:
A method of analyzing a building constructed from a composite material, the composite material being formed from a selected plastic foam coated on both sides with concrete, the method comprising the following steps,creating a drawing of the building in a computer assisted drawing (CAD) program or finite element analysis (FEA) program, dividing portions of the building into a multitude of discrete volumes by lines, providing a plating of the thickness of the concrete coating on the inner and outer surface of the building, the plating and the volumes being constructed of lines and nodes, the lines having nodes at each end, the nodes of the plating having nodes in common with the nodes of the volumes where the nodes of the plating and the volumes would otherwise be adjacent, correcting discrepancies in the volumes and the nodes, assigning the properties of the selected plastic foam to the discrete volumes, assigning the properties of the coating to the plating on the inner and outer surface of the building, and using the FEA program to run analyses of the effect of various loads on the building.