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Perform the structural design of any steel connection or member, in minutes

Be safe, save time, optimize

Perform accurate steel connection and member design of any complexity. From welded and bolted structural steel connections to base plates, refine your connection and member designs by leveraging:

  • Intuitive design of any simple-to-complex steel connection 
  • 2D/3D, CHS/HSS steel connections pass/fail results according to AISC, EN, etc. 
  • 250+ ready-made templates and 10,000+ connection configurations 
  • The application of any axial, shear, and moment connection loading
  • Detailed reporting, including stiffness, seismicity, and buckling 
See how we ensure safety
*Be safe*, save time, optimize

STEEL CONNECTION DESIGN OF ANY COMPLEXITY

No matter their complexity, the IDEA StatiCa Connection application lets you safely design and code-check all necessary connections and steel connection details, fast, and generate a comprehensive report to prove it to everybody else. 

Solution for steel connection design

SAFELY DESIGN ANY STEEL MEMBER

Is solving critical safety issues such as stability and buckling a struggle? Using the IDEA StatiCa Member application, you can enjoy efficient, fast, and accurate member design, and: 

  • Analyze and design any steel frame, beam, and column safely and quickly 
  • Stop estimating buckling lengths and understand strut stability, torsion, and deplanation 
  • Provide a clear and comprehensive design report for every critical steel member in PDF or docx 
SOLUTION FOR ASSESSING CRITICAL MEMBERS
SAFELY DESIGN ANY STEEL *MEMBER*

FOR ALL YOUR PROJECTS

Footings, anchorings, anchor bolts
Footings, anchorings, anchor bolts
Beam to column connections
Beam to column connections
Spacial welded HSS connections
Spacial welded HSS connections
Steel-to-timber connections
Steel-to-timber connections
3D loaded steel connections
3D loaded steel connections
HSS Bracing Connection and Trusses
HSS Bracing Connection and Trusses
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Case studies

Natural Gas Plant
The interoperability between structural engineering tools plays a key role in the success of infrastructure projects. In the following case, IDEA StatiCa and Checkbot helped CSF Consulting to save 900-man hours.

Checkbot worked as a translator to communicate between STAAD.Pro and IDEA StatiCa connection, transferring hundreds of nodes and thousands of load combinations, avoiding any load input errors. The structural design process started in STAAD.Pro, where the global structure was analyzed and designed. Using the Checkbot app within STAAD, the entire structure can be imported into Checkbot. Finally, IDEA StatiCa will open every node with the geometry and load combinations where the connection can be modeled and designed.

The following article shows how CSF Consulting took advantage of the interoperability in a Natural Gas plant structural design.
Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport drive-through canopy
At the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, a drive-thru plane canopy is designed with resistance to wind up to 155 mph.
Family home in Massachusetts
CRAFT Engineering Studio worked closely with Selldorf Architects on this single-family residence.
The project consists of three different buildings – the main house, garage, and pool house.
With an open architectural design and unpropped balcony, the two-story building of the main house sits on a steep bluff overlooking the ocean, exposing it to high winds and introducing numerous challenges in terms of the structural design of the vertical and lateral load resisting systems.
Originally conceived in steel, both the client and architect wished to move to a predominantly wood solution.
The Queens Wharf Skydeck
The Queens Wharf Skydeck was designed to become the must-see destination for those seeking spectacular views of Brisbane. Perched 100 meters above the Brisbane River, upon completion, the Skydeck will provide an open-air observation deck and public realm between the towers of the Queens Wharf Development, offering panoramas of the river, South Bank Parklands and city skyline.

Comprising four towers spanned by three fabricated steel truss bridges, structure consisted of complex geometry. Using IDEA StatiCa, Dallas Lee, a principal engineer at the Robert Bird Group, and his team gained the precise flexibility needed to model the three-dimensional truss nodes accurately, safely, and efficiently.
Horizon cruise terminal
Designing the UK’s first plug-in shore-side cruise ship terminal, the British company REIDsteel used IDEA StatiCa for detailed connections analysis. Automatic calculation of hundreds of steel-to-steel and steel-to-glulam connections enabled REIDsteel to quickly assess both rigidity and cost of each connection type and suggest the most effective designs, saving their client time and money.
Curragh Racecourse, Newbridge, 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.
Glass roof topping
The former Diamant fair (De Diamantbeurs) in Amsterdam, from now on Capital C, has been restored to its old glory after a radical renovation. This national monument has not only been returned to its original shape, but it has now also a new special roof topping made from glass and steel. A design by well-known architectural office ZJA Zwarts & Jansma Architects, structural design by Octatube.
The Marshall Building
Bourne Group has been one of the first TOP10 UK Steel contractors to implement IDEA StatiCa back in 2016, and since then they have been using successfully in many high profile projects. One of the latest is The Marshall Building, an iconic structure at the London School of Economics.