FEM-Design features overall
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
