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DESIGN ANY STEEL MEMBER

Report as per code for members of any geometry and loading

SOLVE THE CRITICAL STEEL MEMBER

Design and code-check the critical frames of your projects (beams, columns, diagonals, etc.). Perform stability and buckling calculations of members without over simplifications, and safely analyze with boundary conditions.

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NO MORE ESTIMATES OF BUCKLING LENGTHS

Perform compromise-free analysis of members modeled by 3D shells with real connections, stiffeners, and openings. Accurately simulate your project's structural behavior, including strut stability, buckling, torsion, and deplanation, and confidently design any steel member.

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What Does Member Solve?

Stability issues 

  • No more estimating buckling lengths, stiffness of connections or the effects of local section inconsistencies 
  • Accurately analyze stressed columns as well as roof girders, heavy industrial structure members and lightweight bridge segments 
  • Ideal for both standard and non-standard cases

Cold-form sections

  • Analyze thin-walled sections for roof purlins or floor beams, girts or beams for facade construction 
  • Perform member analysis of thin-walled sections, offering you full graphical control of the behavior of element and stability checks influenced by imperfections through advanced GMNIA

Frames and subframes 

  • Cost-effectively design hall structures, including stability analysis of individual frames or subframes 
  • Calculate the spatial stiffness and stability of the entire structure in your current FEA software, and perform the rest of the stability analysis in Member for selected subframes 
  • Analyze the influence of frame corner stiffness on roof beam stability, the stability of bracing system columns or roof purlins 

Strengthening structures

  • Cover any changes in loading or structural details in existing structures 
  • Go beyond conventional procedures that do not provide you with sufficiently accurate results 
  • Eliminate the need for simplifications and estimates 
  • Gain complete confidence in your design solution using advanced nonlinear analysis

COMPLETE ANALYSIS in 3 steps

MATERIALLY NONLINEAR ANALYSIS

  • 3D shell models of analyzed members  
  • Detailed connection modeling with real stiffness/bearing capacity  
  • Calculate stress and strain of a selected member using the CBFEM method
  • Materially nonlinear steel models with plasticity/plastic strain limit 
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Linear buckling analysis

  • Check buckling mode shapes directly in a 3D view
  • Display critical load factors and amplitudes set the initial imperfection value
  • Linear buckling mode analysis and critical load factor determination  
  • Consider buckling of the whole member and the slender member plate with combination of more buckling mode shapes 
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GMNIA analysis

  • Geometrically and materially nonlinear analysis and checks with initial imperfection definitions  
  • Analysis considering imperfections set in previous step together with material and geometrical nonlinear behavior 
  • Fire design by taking into consideration the degradation of materials according to user-set temperatures during the analysis
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