STEEL
NO MORE STRUGGLES WITH CONNECTION DESIGN
Design all your structural steel connections, no matter their geometry, in minutes
FAST CONNECTION DESIGN
Design steel connections of any type or complexity. Start from scratch or import connections directly from your CAD or FEA software. Apply simplified or complex loading, visualize the behavior, and generate connection sketches and detailed reports. Connections include:
- Steel moment connections in steel structures, shear and axial connections, including seismic
- Beam to beam, beam to column, column to column, or column to base plate connections
ANY GEOMETRY AND LOADING
Receive clear pass/fail checks, according to your code, in minutes. IDEA StatiCa enables you to shorten your connection design time by up to 80% by providing you with:
- A database of 10,000+ pre-designed 2D/3D connections, footings, CHS and HSS connections, steel-to-timber, and other connections
- The ability to model and design any bolted and welded connection quickly and safely
- Comprehensive AISC/EN and other code checks, including buckling, stiffness analysis, design resistance, and seismic
- Fully customizable reports with equations and pictures that help prove and sell your work
Model
Load
Calculate
Report
AVOID OVERDESIGNED CONNECTIONS
According to the Steel Construction Cost joint publication from the SCI, BCSA and TATA Steel, the combined cost of fabrication and raw materials is about 60-80% of the end-product. IDEA StatiCa for steel connection design helps you dramatically lower these costs by:
- Reducing the number of overdesigned structural steel connections
- Enabling engineers and detailers to share accurate and actionable steel connection data quickly
- Using efficiently designed connections to decrease carbon consumption during fabrication
SIMPLE, MODERATE, AND COMPLEX STEEL CONNECTIONS
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
TRY IDEA STATICA FOR FREE
- Experience all features, the User Portal, and workflows
- Receive support from our product engineers
- Learn through training and free tutorials
WHAT DO OUR CUSTOMERS SAY ABOUT US?
This software gives me the freedom to be really creative with the connections. What's more, it pays for itself very quickly.
IDEA StatiCa has transformed the way I view finite element analysis. IDEA StatiCa gives me the flexibility to model anchors and flange connections with complex parts and geometries and provides an in-depth picture as to how these components are behaving structurally. IDEA StatiCa has been an invaluable tool providing us as a client with solutions to our most complex challenges.
Implementing the IDEA software into our company has been a real turning point for us. It allows us to create connections that are lightweight, cost-effective and structurally efficient all the while giving us the flexibility to design a connection to any imaginable configuration whilst still giving us the confidence that the connections are designed in accordance with the relevant design standards.
IDEA StatiCa has proven to be the perfect choice because modeling such complex details, with bolts, welds, cuts and openings, in FEM software like SAP2000 or Ansys would have involved an excessive amount of time and several technical difficulties.
IDEA StatiCa is a great tool and helped us a lot. Without the software and working knowledge of it, you cannot be competitive in this market.
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.
IDEA StatiCa software is a fantastically efficient tool that’s helped us streamline our connection design processes. The cloud-based license makes it easy for us to access the software from anywhere, and the support team is always on hand to sort out any issues.
I have been using IDEA StatiCa since 2015 and use it every day. It saves me time, and I can calculate connections with more than three bars in the node. It’s very, very useful.
