Advance Design 2012 packages

Available functionalities Standard Professional Concrete Professional Steel Professional Timber Premium
MODELING ELEMENTS
• 2D and 3D structures
• Linear elements: beam, S beam, cable, tie, strut, bar
• Planar elements: shell, plate, membrane, plane strain
• Punctual, linear and surface supports; rigid, elastic and T/C type
• Punctual, linear and surface loads, mass, liquid pressure loads, supports displacements
• Windwall elements for loads
• Libraries with predefined elements: portal frames, trusses, linear vaults, planar vaults
• Load case families: Self Weight, Live Loads, Snow, Wind, Seism, Temperatures, Accidental Loads
• DOF's Master-slave link
• Fast definition of haunches for linear elements
• Semi-rigid links between linear elements with user defined nonlinear behavior
• Boundary conditions on planar element's edges
• Compound cross sections.
• Seismic spectrum for Morocco
 
CROSS SECTIONS LIBRARIES
• Defined cross sections: concrete, wood, steel
• Cross section libraries: European Profiles, Otua Profiles
• The "Cross Sections" application for geometrical parameters calculation, including torsion properties (Iw) and shear areas.
• Advance Steel cross sections (also available for the "Steel Design" application - steel elements calculation and verification)
 
MATERIALS LIBRARIES
• Concrete (STAS 10107/0-90; EN-206; NFB)
• Steel (EN 10025-2 - 6; EN 10210 -1; EN 10219-1)
• Wood (NFP 21-400)
 
MESHING ENGINES
• Automatic Mesh: Delaunay and Grid
• Mesh refining: progressive, local and parametric refining
• Meshing along geometric lines
 
ANALYSIS TYPES
• Static analysis
• Modal analysis
• Seismic analysis (Eurocode 8, P100/2006; PS 92, RPS2000)
• Nonlinear static analysis 2nd order
• Generalized buckling
• Transient dynamic analysis
• The finite elements calculation can be performed in several steps
• Multithread and multicore finite element engine
 
CLIMATIC GENERATORS
• Snow and Wind - EC1, NV2009, NP 082-04, CR 1-1-3/2005 (General, FR, UK)
 
AUTOMATIC GENERATOR OF LOADS COMBINATIONS
• CR 0-2005
• BAEL91
• CM66
• EC 0
• Newmark
• Defined combinations (user models can be post-processed)
• Complete management of concomitances between load cases and families (exclusive and forced concomitances)
 
REINFORCED CONCRETE CALCULATION
• Theoretical reinforcement area for linear and planar elements, longitudinal reinforcement, transverse reinforcement and minimal reinforcement area
• Concrete columns verification using the interaction curves
• Punching check
• Crack opening check
• Implemented regulations: EC2, STAS 10107, BAEL91
• Theoretical reinforcement area due to torsion effect
• Fire design according EN 1992-1-2 / Section 5
 
CALCULATION AND VERIFICATION OF STEEL ELEMENTS
• Buckling length, lateral-torsional buckling length and deflections calculation
• Resistance, stability and deflections verification
• Steel cross section optimization
• Implemented regulations: CM66; EC3
• Fire design according EN 1993-1-2
 
TIMBER DESIGN
• Buckling lengths, lateral-torsional buckling lengths, deflections design and verification.
• Timber elements strength and stability.
• Sections optimization.
• Available standards: EC5 (National Appendix for: France, Germany, UK, Czech and Romania).
• Fire verification according to EN1995-1-2 (§4.2.2 and §4.2.3).
 
IMPORT AND EXPORT
• Import: Effel, IFC, SDNF, PSS, CIS2, DXF
BIM synchronization with GRAITEC compatible software
 
REPORTS GENERATOR
• Predefined calculation reports
• Parametric calculation reports
• User-defined calculation reports
• Image insertion
• Automatic update of calculation reports
• Export calculation reports to Word, Excel, PDF files
           
POST-PROCESSING
• Advanced Technology "Result Memory"
• Post-processing templates that can be used in other models
• Automatic update of calculation reports and saved views
• Result curves
• Interactive Iso regions
• Seismic analysis with eigen mode results
• Nonlinear analysis with step by step results
• Time-History analysis with results which fluctuate in time
• Torsors on walls and groups of walls
• Torsors on linear supports
• Automatic peak smoothing on planar elements
 

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