FEM-Design
FEM-Design is an advanced modelling software for the structural analysis and design of load-bearing concrete, steel and timber structures. Single elements or a complete building, made from any number of materials and structural elements, can be analysed with ease. Static, dynamic, global stability, seismic analysis, concrete and/or steel design calculations can be run for the complete 3D model.
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FEM-Design in Action
Basic Capabilities & Workflow (Video)
This video shows the modelling of a building using the 3D Structure capability. Columns, walls and plates can easily be defined with different materials and cross sections assigned to each. It also shows how the structural elements can be copied conveniently to rapidly generate a full 3D model.
Reinforced Concrete Design (Video)
This video shows the reinforced concrete design function within the 3D Structure program. Both manual and automatic design functions are available with reinforcements checked against deflection and crack-width criteria.
Timber Roof Design (Video)
This video shows the timber design function in 3D Structure, including automatic utilisation checks for stresses, flexural buckling and lateral torsional buckling for wood and glulam sections.
Copying of Floors / Storeys within StruSoft FEM-Design (Video)
This video shows how the copy function in FE-Design 3D Structure can improve the efficiency of your analysis. Complete and part floors can be copied very quickly to assist the modelling of a multi -storey buildings.
FEM-Design Capabilities
Modelling
- User-friendly working environment with intuitive CAD tools for easy model creation and editing
- OpenGL for fast fly through rendered views, animated results and powerful 2D and 3D graphical representation of input geometry and results
- Intelligent data connections provide options to create your model from architects’ layout by importing of IFC, DWG and DXF files
- Point-point, line-line and edge connections between structural objects for real life situation modelling
- Point, line and surface supports with rigid, free and/or elastic stiffness components
- Section editor for defining custom section shapes for bars, beams and columns with automatic property calculation
- Inbuilt structure wizard for quick and easy input of slab and frame systems
Analysis
- Various loading types including, point, line, surface, temperature, support motion and stress loads. Automatic wind and snow loading are also available
- Automatic loading combinations for unfavourable loads, combining permanent, variable and accidental loads
- Automatic optimal finite element mesh generation for any geometry with no element limit and the ability to mesh to load positions if required
- Options for advanced static, dynamic (eigen frequencies), stability and seismic analysis. FEM-Design can automatically convert load cases to masses for dynamic calculations and surface loads into line loads in frame structures
- Automatic solving of singularity problems in internal/design force results above supports
Design
- Choose your desired design code for reinforcement and steel from 10 national standards, including British, Danish, Eurocodes, Hungarian, Norwegian and Swedish.
- Steel design includes automatic utilisation checks for stresses, flexural buckling, lateral torsional buckling and web and flange buckling
- Choose your preferred results display from 3D graphs, contour lines, colour palette or sections for each display result
- Documentation editor, for quality multi-page documentation within the FEM-Design environment
- Input and output data as tabular form can be opened in Microsoft Excel
Hardware and Software Requirements
Minimal Configuration
- Windows XP (SP2)
- CD-ROM
- RAM: 1024 MB
- CPU: AMD 1600+ or Intel P4 1.6 GHz
- Free disk space: 40 GB
- Monitor with 1024×768 resolution
- OpenGL 1.5 or DirectX 9.0 compatible video card with ATI or nVIDIA chipset
Recommended Configuration
- Windows 7 or XP (SP3)
- DVD-ROM
- RAM: 4096 MB
- CPU: AMD Phenom X4 Quad-Core or Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5 – 3 GHz
- Free disk space: 100 GB
- Monitor with 1920×1024 resolution
- OpenGL 1.5 or DirectX 9.0c (for Windows XP), DirectX 10.0 (for Vista) or DirectX 11.0 (for Windows 7) compatible video card with ATI or nVIDIA chipset
