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113 Category 3: Industrial Buildings and Plants 3 Owner Ecocem Materials Ltd. Architect IBAU Hamburg General Contractor IBAU Hamburg Engineering Office Statika OK Construction Period 02/2016 The discharge hopper ensures the transport of the material from the cement mixer. The plan dimensions are 1.7 x 3.4 m. The device is used in the cement production plant. The structure walls of the typical hopper shape are reinforced by the stiffeners. The main challenge of the modelling was the complicated geometry and the Eurocode defined load acting on hopper which is always laborious to assemble, nonlinear analysis was used for stability and plastic analysis. All the difficulties were overcome using SCIA Engineer software, the especially great advantage is the very fast solver enabling us to perform geometrical and material nonlinear analysis with the dense finite element mesh relatively quickly. The presentation of results, especially the graphical interpretation on the 3D model, gave us a good insight into the response of the structure. In the second step, the Engineering Report helped us prepare the comprehensive project documentation quickly. Discharge Hopper - Dunkerque, France Statika OK Contact Jan Blažík Address V Parku 181/6 736 01 Havířov, Czech Republic STATIKA OK, ing. Jan Blažík is a design and engineering company founded in 1992. From the early beginnings the company focused on the common steel structures of any type, with the specialization of the technological ones – complicated bins, silos, tanks, hoppers and similar constructions for bulk storage and handling, petrochemical and gas industries.