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 | |||||
Download the list of functionalities for Advance Design 2012 in PDF format.
