IDEA StatiCa Connection
Engineers typically design steel connections that follow prescribed building code requirements based on lab empirical testing, computational model verification and engineering judgment. However, many projects have situations where the connection design must be validated using engineering judgment or even perform a more comprehensive connection analysis. IDEA StatiCa Connection provides a method and tools for analysis and check of steel joints of general shapes and loadings. The software is the result of long-term experience with development of component method (CM), practical experience with design of steel structures and proven professional experience with FEM and SW development.
IDEA StatiCa Connection is
GENERAL, so that it is useable for most of joints, anchors, and details used in building practice.
SIMPLE and FAST, so that it provides results in time comparable with currently existing methods and tools.
COMPREHENSIBLE, so that structural engineer gets clear information about joint behavior, stress, strain and reserves of individual components and about overall safety and reliability.
Produktinformationen
Key Features of IDEA Connection
Key features of IDEA Connection include …
- Joints with various numbers of beams in multiple directions and loads
- Analysis model created according to manufacturing operations used – cuts, plates, stif feners, ribs, openings, cleats, welds, bolts etc.
- Automatic generation of joint’s FE model, user does not handle with FEA
- Stiffness analysis of any kind of connection
- Efficient FEA solver delivers result faster than current methods
- More than 90% of calculations is national-code independent
- Calculation of internal stress/forces in joints based on elastic/plastic FE analysis
- Clear information about behavior of the joint/connection
- Local buckling analysis of steel joint, critical load factor
Component Based Finite Element Model (CBFEM)
Component Based Finite Element Model include …
- Joint is divided into components
- All steel plates are modeled by Finite Element method assuming ideal elastic-plastic material
- Bolts, welds, concrete blocks are modelled as nonlinear springs
- FE Model is used for investigating of internal forces in each component
- Plates are checked for limit plastic strain – 5% acc. to EC3
- Each component is checked according to specific formulas as in Component Method
Technical Support
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Online Training
Benefit from free online presentations, problem-solving support, and high-quality, effective on-site training that will help you get your project off to a quick start or increase your internal quality and efficiency.
Engineering Services
Together with our internationally operating partner, MF Engineering & Consulting, we consistently develop our expertise and find the right solution for your challenges.