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CATIA for structural engineers...

CATIA for structural engineers...

CATIA for structural engineers...

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Is there any use of CATIA for a structural engineer like me. Especially static calculations of any kind of construction (steel or consrete for example). Is there a possibility in CATIA to create a construction response to a earthquake situation.
Or is CATIA only mechanical engineer's stuff...

RE: CATIA for structural engineers...

CATIA was used in the redesign of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.

http://www.rom.on.ca/renaissance/architecture.php

I have the pleasure of passing by there regularly, and was able to see all of the custom joints that had been fabricated off-site come together to build the new museum's crystalline structure.

RE: CATIA for structural engineers...

CATIA V4 has a set of plant design products that include structure design (steel beams) and analysis (static loads and wind shear).

I'm not sure if these products exist in V5

RE: CATIA for structural engineers...

We use CATIA V5 Structural Analysis, and the Solver, all of the time.  Primarily for Assembly Analysis, since our other FEA tools do not have the Contact Elements nor the Spider Elements that CATIA has.

Types of things analyzed: Aircraft Landing Gear, Spar Caps, Fittings, etc.  Mostly machined parts with mechanical fasteners and joints.

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