Structural Design and analysis FE softwares
Structural Design and analysis FE softwares
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I am going to design a 2-story office steel buidling (probably moment frame, colum base may be designed as fixed).
I am wondering if there is a FE software can design the steel building frame (column, beam), base plate, anchor bolts, concrete footing for columns, and check the soil bearing capacity under footing? So I do not have to use one software for column & beam, and use another one for footing or anchor bolts.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
I am wondering if there is a FE software can design the steel building frame (column, beam), base plate, anchor bolts, concrete footing for columns, and check the soil bearing capacity under footing? So I do not have to use one software for column & beam, and use another one for footing or anchor bolts.
Any suggestions? Thanks.






RE: Structural Design and analysis FE softwares
RISA
ROBOT
Staad
There's quite a few out there.
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Can Visual Analysis do that?
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if something changed (always), ...
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http://www.risatech.com/forms/demo_request.html
If you also have RISAFoot, then you can analyze and "design" your footings directly from within RISA-3D. The base plates and anchor bolts can be done from within RISABase. Though that is not directly integrated with RISA-3D. You can also download demo versions of these smaller programs. They just won't integrate with 3D and they will have some weird material limitations (like an Fy of 20ksi for the base plate) that prevent the program from being used for anything other than evaluation.
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It may just be that I don't have enough experience integrating my foundations into my structural model. I tend to only do it when I'm looking at large lateral loads being taken via bending in piles. Even then I'll mostly do that to get a better feeling for how the loads move around and will still design the substructure seperately once I've worked that out.
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