6. Summary of results

The results obtained are validated by comparison with those theoretically expected with good precision.

The specific functionalities tested are as follows:

• operator DEFI_MATERIAU [U4.23.01]: definition of the characteristic parameters of steel and concrete materials allowing the calculation of the tension along the prestressing cables, in accordance with the rules of BPEL;

• operator DEFI_CABLE_BP [U4.23.06]: calculation of the tension along the cables; projection of the cable nodes onto the meshes representing the concrete structure, preliminary to the calculation of the coefficients of the kinematic relationships between the degrees of freedom of the cable nodes and the degrees of freedom of the « neighboring » nodes of the concrete structure.