my point of view:
- ansys has not so friendly user interface and I find difficult to use it
- sap2000 is my favorite (I do steel mainly)
- strand7 is good and excellent for more mechanical related jobs. I find editing not so smart as it could be.
- algor: I don't know it
- risa: not bad, though...
Introduction:
Just an introduction to better understand the questions: we are a foreign engineering company specializing in steel construction design (calculation) and detailing. We work most of all in industrial projects (steel buildings for factories, silos and other plants with steel...
Introduction: We are a small firm in Italy and we build little machines for agriculture (kind of stirrers for manure). Those machines are obviously composed of mechanical and electrical parts: an electric motor and a low tension switchboard. I mean, nothing special, just a normal little machine...
Introduction: We are a small firm in Italy and we build little machines for agriculture (kind of stirrers for manure). Those machines are obviously composed of mechanical and electrical parts: an electric motor and a low tension switchboard. I mean, nothing special, just a normal little machine...
Recently I have been designing silos according to DIN 1055, DIN 4119, DIN 18914 and ECCS recommendations: I would like to exchange opinions with somebody using different standards about calculating wind effects on shells and how to consider ring stiffenings in buckling behaviour.
