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Industrial engineering & applied simulation

Advanced engineering for complex real-world structures.

Numerical Archive applies finite-element simulation, structural assessment and engineering judgement to demanding industrial problems—from historic masonry and heavy foundations to marine infrastructure, energy systems and process-industry structures.

Nonlinear finite-element analysis Structural & geotechnical assessment Industrial decision support
Historic StructuresAssessment · Retrofit
Marine & PortsStructures · Foundations
Energy SystemsWind · Dynamic response
Oil & GasTanks · Industrial systems
Heavy FoundationsSSI · Silos · Large structures
Industrial expertise

Simulation built around the engineering problem.

Our industrial work is organized around the behaviour that governs a system—not around a single software workflow. Geometry, material response, loading, contact, foundations, degradation and uncertainty are considered according to the real engineering question.

HERITAGE / EXISTING

Historic & Existing Structures

Structural behaviour assessment, nonlinear modelling, vulnerability identification and strengthening strategies for existing and heritage structures.

MasonryAssessmentRetrofit
FOUNDATIONS / SSI

Heavy Foundations, Silos & Soil–Structure Behaviour

Foundation response and soil–structure interaction for heavy or settlement-sensitive systems such as silos, towers, tanks and large industrial structures.

SSISettlementFoundations
MARINE / PORTS

Marine & Port Infrastructure

Numerical assessment of quay walls, jetties, piles, coastal structures and marine infrastructure subjected to complex structural and environmental actions.

JettiesPilesMarine loads
ENERGY / WIND

Wind Turbines & Energy Structures

Structural and foundation modelling for tall, dynamically sensitive and cyclically loaded energy systems, including wind-turbine support structures.

Dynamic responseCyclic loadingStability
OIL / GAS / STORAGE

Oil, Gas, Petrochemical & Storage Systems

Engineering simulation for storage tanks, process-industry structures, equipment-support systems and components governed by nonlinear, thermal or cyclic effects.

TanksIndustrial structuresNonlinearity
ADVANCED FEA

Advanced Nonlinear Simulation

Finite-element models for material nonlinearity, contact, damage, cyclic loading, pushover response, failure investigation and complex load-transfer mechanisms.

ABAQUSContactDamage
Engineering approach

From evidence to an engineering decision.

Numerical simulation is most useful when it explains behaviour. Our workflow is structured to connect available project evidence with a model that can support assessment, comparison and intervention decisions.

01UnderstandGeometry, condition, loading and project evidence
02ModelRepresentative materials, interfaces and boundaries
03AnalyzeLinear, nonlinear, cyclic or dynamic response
04InterpretCritical mechanisms and governing response
05EngineerVerification, alternatives and strengthening strategy
Selected projects

Real engineering work, presented with appropriate confidentiality.

Selected case studies show how our technical team approaches complex engineering problems. Client identity, exact location and sensitive project data may be withheld where confidentiality requires it.

Historic masonry building assessed by Numerical Archive Persian Gulf Region · Confidential Project
Historic structures · Featured project

Structural Assessment & Strengthening of a 300+ Year Historic Masonry Building

Historic MasonryNonlinear FEAStructural AssessmentStrengthening

Numerical Archive and its technical engineering team evaluated the behaviour of a more than three-century-old masonry structure to identify critical response mechanisms and support technically appropriate strengthening and rehabilitation strategies.

Three-dimensional structural representation Nonlinear masonry behaviour Gravity and lateral response assessment Strengthening strategy development
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Large utility-scale wind turbines Wind Energy · Technical Study
Wind energy · Large-scale structural simulation

Wind Turbine

15 MW ClassWind EnergyFinite-Element ModelStructural Response

Numerical Archive developed a large-scale finite-element model to study the structural response of a 15 MW wind turbine, including the tower, blades and rotor assembly under representative loading conditions.

Tower, blades and rotor assembly Gravity and representative wind loading Stress and deformation assessment Large-scale energy-structure modelling
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Layered rubble-mound breakwater representation and finite-element mesh Marine & Ports · Technical Study
Marine infrastructure · Coupled numerical assessment

Rubble-Mound Breakwater

Marine StructuresCoupled ResponseCyclic LoadingAbaqus

A finite-element study of a layered rubble-mound breakwater and its foundation, developed to examine how repeated prescribed wave loading transfers through the crest, slopes, toe and supporting ground.

Layered breakwater & foundation Pore-pressure and effective-stress response Cyclic wave-pressure representation Toe and internal response assessment
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Stepped gravity block quay wall with shear-keyed joints Marine & Ports · Structural Study
Quay structures · Nonlinear finite-element modelling

Gravity Block Quay Wall

Marine StructuresContact & FrictionShear KeysPushover Analysis

A nonlinear finite-element model of a gravity block quay wall, developed to investigate block interaction, shear-key load transfer, contact behaviour and lateral capacity under pushover loading.

Shear-keyed block geometry Nonlinear contact and friction Sliding, rocking and block interaction Lateral and seismic capacity assessment
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Engineering collaboration

Have a complex engineering problem?

Share the structure, available data, loading conditions and the decision you need to make. We can help define an appropriate numerical and engineering assessment strategy.

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