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Programmable COM Interface for RFEM or RSTAB
Video
First Steps with RFEM
Description
This webinar demonstrates how to use the COM interface to integrate external programs with RFEM and RSTAB.
Time Schedule:
00:00 Introduction
01:45 Features of COM interface
07:50 Principles for creating structural elements
18:10 Interface to the STEEL EC3 add-on module with optimizing the length of a tapered beam
Keywords
Dlubal Webinar Programming Programmable COM interface STEEL EC3 External Programs Webinar about Dlubal Software Webinar Dlubal Tutorial
Downloads
- Slides to webinar "Programmable COM Interface for RFEM/RSTAB" (PDF)
- Excel-Datei zum Webinar "Programmierbare COM-Schnittstelle für RFEM/RSTAB"
Links
- RFEM 5 Online Manual
- RF-COM/RS-COM Add-on Module for RFEM/RSTAB
- Videos and Introductory Examples About RF-COM and RS-COM
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If you read out the results of a surface via the COM interface, you get a one-dimensional field with all results at the FE nodes or grid points.
SHAPE-THIN | Cold-Formed Sections
SHAPE-THIN determines the effective cross-sections according to EN 1993-1-3 and EN 1993-1-5 for cold-formed sections. You can optionally check the geometric conditions for the applicability of the standard specified in EN 1993‑1‑3, Section 5.2.
The effects of local plate buckling are considered according to the method of reduced widths and the possible buckling of stiffeners (instability) is considered for stiffened sections according to EN 1993-1-3, Section 5.5.
As an option, you can perform an iterative calculation to optimize the effective cross-section.
You can display the effective cross-sections graphically.
Read more about designing cold-formed sections with SHAPE-THIN and RF-/STEEL Cold-Formed Sections in this technical article: Design of a Thin-Walled, Cold-Formed C-Section According to EN 1993-1-3.
- How can I set the calculation parameters by using the COM interface?
- How can I create a result beam by using the COM interface?
- How does the asynchronous calculation via the COM interface work?
- Is it possible to create nodal releases via the COM interface?
- Why do I get high differences when designing a longitudinally stiffened buckling panel compared to the German and Austrian National Annexes?
- How can I perform the stability analysis for an edgewise supported flat steel, for example 100/5, in RF-/STEEL EC3? Although the cross-section is rotated by 90 ° in RFEM/RSTAB, it is displayed lying flat in RF-/STEEL EC3.
- How can I create a curved or curved section?
- How are the signs to be interpreted for the release results of the line release and line hinges?
- How is the rotational stiffness of a buckling stiffener determined in FE-BUCKLING?
- How are hot -dip galvanized components considered for fire protection in the Steel EC 3 add -on module?
