Key Features

Modelling
  • fd-model2User-friendly working environment with intuitive CAD tools for easy model creation and editing
  • OpenGL for fast fly through rendered views, animated results and powerful 2D and 3D graphical representation of input geometry and results
  • Intelligent data connections provide options to create your model from architects’ layout by importing of IFC, DWG and DXF files
  • Point-point, line-line and edge connections between structural objects for real life situation modelling
  • Point, line and surface supports with rigid, free and/or elastic stiffness components
  • Section editor for defining custom section shapes for bars, beams and columns with automatic property calculation
  • Inbuilt structure wizard for quick and easy input of slab and frame systems

Analysis
  • fd-beamVarious loading types including, point, line, surface, temperature, support motion and stress loads. Automatic wind and snow loading are also available
  • Automatic loading combinations for unfavourable loads, combining permanent, variable and accidental loads
  • Automatic optimal finite element mesh generation for any geometry with no element limit and the ability to mesh to load positions if required
  • Options for advanced static, dynamic (eigen frequencies), stability and seismic analysis. FEM-Design can automatically convert load cases to masses for dynamic calculations and surface loads into line loads in frame structures
  • Automatic solving of singularity problems in internal/design force results above supports

Design
  • Choose your desired design code for reinforcement and steel from 10 national standards, including British, Danish, Eurocodes, Hungarian, Norwegian and Swedish.
  • Steel design includes automatic utilisation checks for stresses, flexural buckling, lateral torsional buckling and web and flange buckling
  • Choose your preferred results display from 3D graphs, contour lines, colour palette or sections for each display result
  • Documentation editor, for quality multi-page documentation within the FEM-Design environment
  • Input and output data as tabular form can be opened in Microsoft Excel
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