No more struggle with steel connection design
Design and code-check all your steel connections. Any topology, any loading, safely, in minutes.
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Steel connections and members
IDEA StatiCa is a steel connection design software for all types of welded and bolted connections, base plates, footings, and anchoring. It also enables you to solve buckling and stability of steel members.
- Intuitive design of simple and even highly complex connections
- Pass/fail results for any connection, based on AISC, Eurocode, etc.
- 250 ready-made templates, 10,000+ configurations
- Easy application of any required loading to the project
- Complete report including stiffness, seismicity and buckling
We solve your connections
Watch how IDEA StatiCa transforms one of the biggest pains of steel design into a practical solution for your daily work. No matter the complexity of topology or loading, you can design and code-check whatever connections and joints your project requires. And get a comprehensive report which will prove it to everybody else. This is a connection design tool every structural engineer and detailer deserves to have.
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We help you on every project
Steel-to-steel connections
Steel-to-concrete connections
Steel-to-timber connections
Safety first
Clear pass/fail checks. Complete reports. Design assumptions explained. Thousands of
tests ensure your project is safe and ready to build so you can rest easy.
Save time
Save time designing and code-checking connections and details. Hundreds of templates, no limits to topology.
Design confidence
Quickly assess the buildability of connections and details at any phase of a project. Better presentation of your work to customers.
Leverage BIM
Import data from CAD or FEA applications. Synchronized assumptions adjust to reflect any changes made. Minimize errors.
Unique method and engine
IDEA StatiCa was the first one to combine the traditional Component method (i.e equations) with FEM analysis. Together with universities, we have created a method called CBFEM, tested it thoroughly, and enabled its usage in a beautiful engineering application.
Proven, reliable calculations
We work closely with numerous universities to test and verify IDEA StatiCa results. No matter the topology, your designs are complete, accurate, and in accordance with AISC, Eurocode, and other design codes.
Case studies
Bus station steel structure, Rosenheim, Germany
Together with LEICHT Structural engineering and specialist consulting GmbH (“LEICHT”), we are happy to present a case study of using IDEA StatiCa on a project of a new bus station in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany.
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Anchorage design of steel spherical storage tanks, 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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The Jakarta International Velodrome, Indonesia
Mott MacDonald — global engineering, management, and development consultancy company - used IDEA StatiCa extensively to analyze and design complex, earthquake-resistant connections for an iconic and very challenging project — The Jakarta International Velodrome, a venue for the 18th Asian Games 2018.
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Railway bridge across Vltava river, Czech Republic
IDEA StatiCa Connection helped to analyze a railway bridge across Vltava river connecting cities Tabor and Pisek in the Czech republic.
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Facade connections at Midland Metropolitan hospital, UK
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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Permanent service bridge truss, Heathrow Airport, UK
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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Optimizing steel connection production, Rijssen, 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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Our customer projects
6-8 Bishopsgate, London, UK
Museum of the Future, Dubai
Capital C (De Diamantbeurs), Amsterdam
Helsinki Olympic stadium
What do our customers say about us
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
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.
Marcel van Odenhoven
Owner – Staalbouwkundig Adviesburo Van Odenhoven
Netherlands
Netherlands
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
United Kingdom
IDEA StatiCa Connection works easy and fast. There is no other alternative solution on the market that provides both FEM and Component Based Method. IDEA Statica is a solid and good tool for the design of our steel connections.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Luc Schueremans
Engineering Manager – Frisomat
Belgium
Belgium
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 – Echols, Lindsey & Moore Structural Engineers
USA
USA
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