Simulation of temperature field for concrete dam based on ANSYS secondary development

The operating-period temperature field simulation is one of the important basis for temperature control during construction of concrete dam. At the preliminary design phase, largely attribute to the indeterminacy of dam´s bodily form and boundary conditions, multiple schemes have to be assumed and analyzed. The work would consume much of time and manpower. A method based on UIDL and APDL of ANSYS has been developed in the paper, and the corresponding human-computer interaction interface and command stream have been coded. With the method, the temperature field computational efficiency could be obviously improved, whether the engineer is familiar with temperature field analysis or not.