IDEA StatiCa
Connection Code-check

DESIGN CONFIDENCE FOR ALL STEEL CONNECTIONS

Reports, code references, behavior visualizations. Be 100% sure.

The best steel connection design software

Your connections are getting more demanding, demand more from your software for steel connection design! Overall stress & strain check, stiffness analysis, seismic and capacity design, design resistance, buckling. Everything as per AISC, EN and other. 3D modeling and result visualizations allow you to take control of the design and test various design options for your structural steel connections.

Steel as well as concrete

Accurate design of welded connections bolted connections, as well as footing and anchoring. Overall stress and strain check, buckling shapes, equivalent stress, plastic strain, the stress in contacts, bolt forces and deformations. All components and steel connection details are taken into account. Anchor check, concrete check, and shear lug. Geometrically and materially non-linear analysis.

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Case studies

Curragh Racecourse, Newbridge, Ireland

Ireland

In this case study, we are really proud to present an extraordinary project of a world-famous horse racing venue in Ireland that has won an award at the Structural Steel Design Awards 2020. Designed by Kiernan Steel, who also erected various ancillary buildings.

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Steel

Anchorage design of steel spherical storage tanks, Canada

Canada

In this case study, Odan Detech Group presents a project that they have been involved in – stress analysis and design of a generic propane/butane storage sphere in a high seismic area.

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Steel

Permanent service bridge truss, Heathrow Airport, UK

United Kingdom

In this project, IDEA Connection was used for the analysis and design of the connections of a steel truss structure made of hollow sections located at Heathrow Airport, London.

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Steel

Optimizing steel connection production, Rijssen, Netherlands

Netherlands

With the installation of the fully automatic assembly and welding machine, Voortman redesigned all standard connections with IDEA StatiCa Connection to maximize production efficiency.

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Steel

Facade connections at Midland Metropolitan hospital, UK

United Kingdom

In this showcase, we are presenting an example of connections of an interior steel structure with an unusual offset arrangement for the cross bracing required by the team of architects of the Midland Metropolitan Hospital near Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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Steel

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Report that sells your work

Export all the calculations in a readable and presentable document in PDF and docx. You can build the report by adding/removing pictures, sketches, code-check results, formulas and explanations, bill of material. Sell your work by adding beautiful and accurate 3D visuals of the geometry and results.

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Understand your connection, in 3D

What do our customer say about us?

We have used IDEA StatiCa on 6-10 different projects already. One project called Crabapple Market was six buildings, all part of a complex. Another company had the other eight buildings at the complex, and after the initial round of RFI’s and comments from the EOR, they chose to use us on any revisions and changes because of our calculation package (IDEA StatiCa) was superior to the other company.

Ryan K. Carpenter

Structural Engineer

IDEA StatiCa allows a stress analysis to be carried out on very complex connections and the software is very easy to use. This aided our connection design for the main node connections on The Marshall Building.

Mark Hill

Associate Director – Bourne Group Ltd
United Kingdom

IDEA StatiCa allows us to design a much wider range of connections, in less time, as well as look into the stiffness behaviour of connections to see how this interacts with the global structural analysis.

Matthew Pearce

Principal Structural Engineer – Mott MacDonald UK
United Kingdom

Thanks to IDEA StatiCa Connection, we have done in our project each steel connection is less than 1 day what would have taken more than a week with the old processes. Today, I only use IDEA StatiCa with some side manual verifications.

Denis Lefebvre

Expertise Director – Stantec
Canada

IDEA StatiCa Connection is a very helpful package for the modeling of a wide range of joints in steel structures. Modeling and interpretation of the results requires an understanding of the forces within a node and is equal to the complexity of the connection.

Gordon Clannachan

Senior Structural Engineer – ARUP
United Kingdom

Once you have used the software for a while, it becomes quite intuitive and therefore much easier to use. It is very powerful in terms of the complexity of connections that it can cope with.

Paul Heathcote

Director & Principal Structural Engineer – Abacus Design Associates
United Kingdom

Marcel van Odenhoven

Owner – Staalbouwkundig Adviesburo Van Odenhoven
Netherlands

Proven, reliable calculations

We work closely with numerous universities to test and verify IDEA StatiCa results. No matter the geometry, your designs are complete, accurate, and in accordance with AISC, Eurocode, and other design codes.

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All connection types analyzed

Bolted gusset plate truss connections

Column base plate connections

HSS splice connections

Beam to column flange-bolted frame connections

Frame moment footings

Spatial welded CHS connections

3D connections with braces and stiffeners

Heavy anchoring

3D hollow section connections

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DESIGN CONFIDENCE FOR ALL STEEL CONNECTIONS

The best steel connection design software

Steel as well as concrete

Case studies

Curragh Racecourse, Newbridge, Ireland

Anchorage design of steel spherical storage tanks, Canada

Permanent service bridge truss, Heathrow Airport, UK

Optimizing steel connection production, Rijssen, Netherlands

Facade connections at Midland Metropolitan hospital, UK

Report that sells your work

Understand your connection, in 3D

What do our customer say about us?

Proven, reliable calculations

All connection types analyzed

From the first idea to fabrication

Become a certified connection design professional

Try IDEA StatiCa for free