Steel connection design – reinvented
Design and check all your steel connections according to the code, in minutes.
IDEA StatiCa Steel
2D frames & trusses
Footings, anchoring
3D frames & trusses
Application IDEA StatiCa Connection can design all types of welded or bolted connections, base plates, footing and anchoring. It provides precise checks, results of strength, stiffness and buckling analysis of a steel joint. Bolts, welds and concrete blocks are checked according to EC/AISC. Templates for most-used connections are available as well as wide range of predefined hot rolled and sheet welded members.
ANY TOPOLOGY
No limits in how many connections there are in the joint and how they are put together. Shape is defined by project requirements, not by software capabilities.
ANY LOADING
All forces are analyzed. The overall check of the joint takes into account interactions between all the beams and connections. Engineers stay on the safe side all the time.
IN MINUTES
The whole design and check process is kept short enough to be a part of everyday work of structural engineers and fabricators all around the world.
IDEA StatiCa Connection provides
Overall check
According to various national design
codes
Stress/strain analysis
FE model of steel joint is composed
automatically
Stiffness analysis
Rotational or transversal stiffness of any
connection
Member capacity design
Seismic check of non-dissipative
connections
Buckling analysis
Local buckling effects and critical load
factors
Design joint resistance
Maximal possible loads, reserve in joint
capacity
Any topology – manufacturing operations
Any loading – all internal forces from 3D global analysis
Base plate – N, My, Mz
3D loaded joint
End plate – My, Mz, Vy, Vz
3D simulation of a steel joint
Steel joint is composed from plates, welds, bolts, contacts and can be anchored into concrete block. FEA model is generated
automatically.
Plates
Model is composed from steel plates – both parts of steel members and stiffening plates. Real shape of plates is kept.
Each plate is meshed independently. Equivalent strain is checked.
Contacts
Contacts appear in places where two plates are in touch. They take 100% of the pressure but do not act in tension at all.
Concrete block
Steel structure can be anchored into concrete block. Base plate is in contact with concrete. Tension is taken by anchors, shear by bolts, friction or shear iron.
Welds
Welds are modeled as constrains between plates. Forces in each weld are evaluated. Stress in weld is checked according
EN/AISC.
Bolts
Bolts are nonlinear springs taking tension and shear.
Designed by IDEA StatiCa Connection
