University of Macau (UM) student Zhou Huan from the\nDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and\nTechnology, won a second prize at the 13th \u201cChallenge Cup\u201d National\nInter-varsity Science and Technology Competition, which was held at Soochow\nUniversity, for his project entitled \u201cFinite Element Analysis of Double-coped\nSteel Beams\u201d. Prof. Iu Vai Pan, supervisor of the project, noted that the\nprize shows recognition of the high quality of teaching and research of the\ndepartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zhou\u2019s project simulates the tested double-coped steel I-beams\nusing finite element methods and conducts a systematic, parametric study on the\neffects of three parameters, namely the aspect ratio of cope length to reduced\nbeam depth, the aspect ratio of cope depth to origin beam depth, and the plate\nthickness of the beam web. A simplified plate model is employed to simulate the\ncoped region, and suggestions are made for designing coped steel I-beam in\nsteel structures.<\/p>\n\n