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RFEM - FEM Structural Analysis Software
RFEM - Powerful, Easy, and Intuitive
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First Steps with RFEM
RFEM is a powerful 3D FEA program helping structural engineers meet requirements in modern civil engineering. Efficient data input and intuitive handling facilitate modeling of simple and large structures.
The structural analysis program RFEM is the basis of a modular software system. The main program RFEM is used to define structures, materials, and loads for planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells and members. The program also allows you to create combined structures as well as model solid and contact elements.
RFEM provides deformations, internal forces, stresses, support forces, and soil contact stresses. The corresponding add-on modules facilitate data input by automatic generation of structures and connections or can be used to perform further analyses and designs according to various standards.
The modular software concept allows you to compile a program package tailored to your individual needs. It is possible to upgrade the program at any time.
BIM Engineering
Due to a wide range of interfaces, RFEM provides perfect interaction between CAD and structural analysis programs in Building Information Modeling (BIM). Thus, the bidirectional data exchange between RFEM and the programs Tekla Structures, Autodesk Revit and Bentley ISM is possible, for example.
Customer Reviews
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“Great praise again, I really enjoy my structural analyses with RFEM. Your advertising slogan is actually true.”
Heiko Bessel
7 March 2016
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Advantages of Spatial FEA Model
"The spatial FEA model offered very good options to analyze and design the load-bearing behavior of a special complex structure in a verifiable way. Due to the extremely high safety requirements concerning the most famous landmark of Germany, the Brandenburg Gate, it was necessary to mount the support structure in two stages. The specific mounting situations could be modeled very well in RFEM."
Project: Column Substitution for Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany
Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Sando
22 October 2013
Structural Analysis Models to Download
Select numerous structural models to utilize them for training purposes or for your projects.
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Book About FEA and RFEM
In this book for engineers and students, you will learn the basics of the finite element method in a practical way by means of manageable examples that have been calculated with RFEM.
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Simplified Blast Design According to AISC Steel Design Guide 26
Blast loads from high energy explosives, either accidental or intentional, are rare but may be a structural design requirement.
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Depending on stiffness, mass, and damping, structures react differently to wind action.
- When comparing RF‑CONCRETE Columns with another design software, I get different results. How to explain the differences?
- The tables (or navigator) are not displayed despite activating the table window (or navigator). How to make them visible again?
- Why are certain model generators only displayed inactive/grayed out?
- I have problems with my printout report. The font is very large. In some cases, the columns overlap and the font is no longer legible.
- How is it possible to make factorized combinations of a dead load in the context of form‑finding?
- Is it possible to perform design without an additional reinforcement in RF‑CONCRETE Surfaces?
- My aim is to mesh a circular hole plate in a mapped way. Is such a meshing possible in RFEM?
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I have installed Halfen HDB 13.60 on my PC. The version does not seem to be compatible with RF-PUNCH Pro anymore. The interface does not work. I am using version 5.26.02 of RFEM.
- Do you have a list of FAQ in Excel, for example, to give us with an overview of the existing FAQ?
- Where can I find detailed information about orthotropy mentioned in the manual?
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