DIANA

F I N I T E E L E M E N T A N A LY S I S

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 DIANA F I N I T E E L E M E N T A N A LY S I S

DIANA (DIsplacement ANAlyzer) is a multi-purpose finite element program, with

a special strength in the field of civil, geotechnical, earthquake and oil & gas
engineering.

DIANA development started in 1972 at the TNO Building and Construction Research
Institute in the Netherlands. In 2003 TNO DIANA BV was established and continues
to develop, market and support DIANA and undertakes customisation, consultancy
and client training activities on behalf of customers worldwide.

Product Functionality

Fields of application Element types

• Structural engineering • Truss
• Geotechnical engineering • Solid
• Earthquake engineering • Contact
• Oil & Gas engineering • Flow
• Timoshenko, Bernoulli, and Mindlin beam
Material models • Plane stress and plane strain
• Complete plane strain
• Linear, non linear and modified elasticity • Axisymmetric
• Hyperelasticity • Plate bending
• Isotropic and orthotropic plasticity • Flat, curved shell and layered shell
• Viscoplasticity • Composed
• Smeared crack models • Interface
• Total strain fixed and rotating crack models • Discrete spring/dashpot
• Young hardening concrete models • Base spring
• Creep and shrinkage • Bounding (spring/dashpot)
• Maekawa concrete model • Point mass/damping
• Soil specials • Embedded reinforcements
• Liquefaction models • Embedded pile elements
• Model Code models for concrete and steel • Boundary surface elements
• User-supplied models
• Special models for interface elements
• Ambient and time dependent mechanical, heat transfer and Preprocessing
groundwater flow properties • CAD like geometry modelling functionality
• Classic brick model for soil • Advanced selection methods
• Modified two-surface model for cyclic behaviour of steel • Advanced geometry modelling
• Menegotto-Pinto plasticity model for reinforcements • Boolean operation for solid modelling
• Geometry check and repair tools
Analysis functionality • Practical mouse snapping
• Auto-, map- and protrude-mesh methods
• Linear static • Mesh manipulation and check functionality
• Fatigue failure • Loads and boundary conditions applicable both on geometry
• Linear transient or mesh
• Frequency response • Function based definition of loads and boundary conditions
• Spectral response • MS-Excel compatible tables
• Physical and geometrical non linear
• Transient non linear
• Eigenvalue
• Buckling and post buckling
• Steady state and transient heat flow
• Detailed and regional groundwater flow
• Steady state and transient groundwater flow
• Coupled flow-stress
• Phased structural and potential flow
• Fluid-structure interaction
• Strength reduction analysis
• Stiffness adaptation analysis
• Parameter estimation
• Lattice

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 Why DIANA?

Standard finite element packages can solve only a limited

range of conventional engineering problems. Non-
conventional engineering problems require advanced
modelling and analysis functionality. Examples are:
analysis of big structures such as dams; complex non
linear material behaviour; stresses induced from extreme
loading conditions such as fire, earthquake, explosions,
etc; complex models where the structure interacts with
soil/fluid. DIANA, with its extensive library of material
models and analysis capabilities, offers a solution to those
Postprocessing types of analyses in one package next to conventional
engineering problems.
• Contour and vector plots
• Iso-surface, slice, clipping and partition plot
• Diagram and vector plot Services
• Results extraction to MS-Excel compatible table
• Screen-shots in different picture formats Support & training
• Animation
Successful finite element modelling requires sound
Solution procedures understanding of the background theory with good
• Automatic solution method engineering judgment. We at TNO DIANA together with
• Out-of-core direct equation solvers our partners are dedicated to provide the highest level of
• Iterative equation solvers service for DIANA:
• Automatic substructuring
• Personalised hotline/Email support by highly qualified staff
• Eigenvalue analysis
• Customised training solutions
• Newton-Raphson, Quasi-Newton, Linear and Constant stiffness
• Regular training courses
iterative procedures
• Extensive technical and theoretical manuals
• Load and displacement control incremental procedures
• Arc length control incremental procedure • Online training sessions
• Adaptive load and time increments
• Automatic incremental loading Analysis consultancy
• Direct and iterative solvers with parallel processing
TNO DIANA offers to carry out analysis consultancy
• Updated and total Lagrange geometrical nonlinear formulation
projects on behalf of their clients which includes the
analysis with DIANA and the interpretation of results.

Software services
TNO DIANA Consultants and software development team
can provide customised solutions for your engineering
problems:
• Specialised software with dedicated GUI
• New modelling capabilities development and implementation
• Integration with customer software

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TNO DIANA BV
Delftechpark 19a
2628 XJ Delft
The Netherlands
+ 31 (0) 88 34262 00 (T)
+ 31 (0) 88 34262 99 (F)

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(Headquarters)

A TNO Company HTTP://TNODIANA.COM