Advance Design 2009
On April 30th 2009, GRAITEC launched Advance Design 2009, finite elements analysis software for reinforced concrete and steel structures.
Advance Design is developed for structural engineers who require a high-end solution for simulating and optimizing all their projects. It includes a user-friendly structural modeler, automatic load generators, a powerful FEM engine, top-level wizards for concrete and steel design, efficient post-processing and report generators.
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What's new in Advance Design 2009
The 2009 release includes several new features and improvements, especially the implementation of the latest Eurocodes. This new release focuses on European structural design functionalities, allowing design offices to easily apply the new European standards on structural design projects.
1. Transition to Eurocode design
For structural design standards, the Eurocodes will become mandatory in 2010, replacing the European national codes. Advance Design 2009 includes the latest developments in the Eurocodes: the climatic generator, actions and load combinations (Eurocode 1), reinforced concrete design (Eurocode 2), steel shapes and connections design (Eurocode 3).
GRAITEC recognized the importance of implementing the new standards by developing the ability to set or to automatically calculate the wind loads pressure coefficients and by developing several calculation methods for slender columns (nominal curvature, nominal stiffness, general method, etc.). All analysis results can be obtained as detailed calculation reports.
In addition, Advance Design is provided with a validation guide, which helps the user to determine precisely the implementation level of these new standards in the software. With the partnership with ArcelorMittal, GRAITEC also provides the design of castellated beams according to Eurocode 3.
2. New design functionalities
Advance Design 2009 includes new design functionalities dedicated to reinforced concrete and steel structures:
- Parametric composed cross sections
- Advanced modeling of haunches
- Link to Arche reinforcement modules
- Connection design improvements: automatic creation of connections in the corresponding system of elements, grouping connections of the same type for a homogeneous sizing, design according to Eurocode 3, etc.
- Automatic torsor calculation by levels or by group of load bearing walls
- New model synchronization features with Advance Concrete and Advance Steel.
3. Productivity and calculation performances
Since the first versions, Advance Design provides significant innovations to the automation in the structural simulation field. In particular, the "Result Memory" technology allows for the automatic replay of the entire results post-processing scenario, from the production of graphical results to the creation of the final calculation report.
The 2009 release has several new improvements in this module:
- A new version of the solver application, which takes into account the semi-rigid connections during the finite elements analysis
- Dynamic Temporal Analysis
- The use of a Microsoft SQL Server database for saving the Advance Design project data. The user benefits from safe data management for large projects. The Advance Design project database is also interoperable.
- 64-bit version (application and solver): the program is able to process large models using internal memory swap, and thus to significantly reduce the calculation time.
Information
- Compatibility: Windows 2000 Pro, Windows XP Pro and Windows Vista.
- Available in English, French and Romanian
- Includes the Eurocodes standards. More details about the standards available in Advance Design 2009.
Installation requirements
To successfully install Advance Design certain requirements have to be met:
Hardware:
- PC with Pentium IV Processor
- 2048 MB RAM (4096 recommended)
- Min. 250 MB free disk space on the hard disk
- Network adapter
- DVD Drive
- Windows compatible graphics adapter (128 MB video RAM recommended), with the latest video driver with support for OpenGL
Software:
- Operating system: Windows XP Pro (or newer) or Windows Vista Pro, Business, Ultimate (32-bit or 64-bit version)
- Minimum screen resolution: 1024*768
- 24 bit color palette recommended
Distribution:
- Advance is delivered on DVD
- The license file is delivered by e-mail.
Download the documentation for Advance Design 2009
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What is new 2009 SP1
28-Oct-2009
Pages: 2
0,4 MB
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What is new 2009
13-May-2009
Pages: 44
3,2 MB
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User's Guide 2009
13-May-2009
Pages: 314
7,4 MB
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Starting Guide 2009
13-May-2009
Pages: 40
1,2 MB
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