Structural engineering FEA software RFEM is the basis of a modular software system. 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.
Structural frame analysis and design software RSTAB contains a similar range of functions as RFEM, with special attention to frame and beam structures. Therefore, it is very easy to use and for many years it has been the best choice for structural analyses.
For design of various materials such as reinforced and prestressed concrete, steel, aluminium, timber, and glass, there is a wide range of powerful add‑modules available for the main program RFEM/RSTAB.
These modules allow you to perform nonlinear, stability and dynamic analyses as well as joint designs and form‑finding processes for cable and membrane structures.
RF‑PIPING Design compares the existing pipe stresses with the allowable stresses according to EN 13480‑3, ASME B31.1, and ASME B31.3.
Design in RF‑PIPING Design is based on pipeline modeling in RF‑PIPING.
Customer Projects of Stress Analysis
A new research station of the Indian Ministry for Earth Sciences was built in East Antarctica.
The complex structural system consists of an enveloping steel structure and a total of 134 special containers.
Customer Projects of Stress Analysis
The temporary structure of a steel maze was created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the arts center C‑Mine in Genk (Belgium) which is located at the former coal mine of Winterslag.
It took almost one month to install the steel structure at the arts center on an area of 1,400 m2.
Customer Projects of Stress Analysis
A glass pedestrian bridge with a length of 30 m connects the St. Michael hospital with the research center Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.
The supporting structure consists of several oval steel rings which are twisted together.
Customer Projects of Stress Analysis
At the end of 2013, the ‘Vechthoeve’ was transported over a distance of 1,640 ft. The wooden house, referred to as the Pippi Longstocking house, is situated close to Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. The villa had to be relocated because of plans to widen the A1 highway.
Customer Projects of Stress Analysis
The New Candlewood Suites on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, is the first cross‑laminated timber (CLT) hotel constructed in the US.
This four story building, made of 56,700 ft3 of CLT and 1,200 ft3 of glulam material, serves the lodging needs of the Redstone Arsenal Army post.
Customer Projects of Stress Analysis
The Metropol Parasol is a hybrid structure consisting of timber, concrete, steel and composite steel.
The most interesting and impressive part of the building is the accessible timber roof structure consisting of multi-layer glued timber panels of the LVL type Kerto‑Q.
Customer Projects of Stress Analysis
The steel structure of a sluice with flap gate is a part of the new Niederfinow boat lift on the east end of the Oder-Havel canal in Germany.
It was built due to the increasing traffic as the original structure of the oldest working boat lift in Germany was running near to its capacity.
Customer Projects of Stress Analysis
The project for designing a filter/dryer device including agitator required a complete stress and deformation analysis in RFEM.
A special design challenge represented the complex modeling of the structue having 1,424 surfaces, 158 solids and 425 members.
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When designing a steel cross-section according to Eurocode 3, it is important to assign the cross-section to one of the four cross-section classes. Classes 1 and 2 allow for a plastic design, classes 3 and 4 are only for elastic design.
In RFEM, there is an option to couple surfaces with the stiffness types "Membrane" and "Membrane Orthotropic" with the material models "Isotropic Nonlinear Elastic 2D/3D" and "Isotropic Plastic 2D/3D" (RF-MAT NL add-on module required).
This functionality enables the simulation of the nonlinear strain behavior of, for example, ETFE foils.
Main Program
Structural engineering software for finite element analysis (FEA) of planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells, members (beams), solids and contact elements
Main Program
The structural engineering software for design of frame, beam and truss structures, performing linear and nonlinear calculations of internal forces, deformations, and support reactions
Add-on Module
Physical and geometrical nonlinear calculation of beam and plate structures consisting of reinforced concrete
Add-on Module
Stress analysis of steel surfaces and members
Add-on Module
Dynamic analysis of natural frequencies and mode shapes of member, surface, and solid models
Add-on Module
Dynamic and seismic analysis including time history analysis and multi-modal response spectrum analysis
Add-on Module
Seismic and static load analysis using the multi-modal response spectrum analysis
Add-on Module
Nonlinear dynamic analysis to external excitations
Add-on Module
Modeling piping systems
Add-on Module
Piping design and pipe stress analysis
Add-on Module
Design of rigid bolted frame joints according to Eurocode 3 or DIN 18800
Add-on Module
Design of pinned connections according to Eurocode 3
Add-on Module
Design of hinged and restrained column base footings according to Eurocode 3
Add-on Module
Design of indirect timber connections with dowel-type fasteners and steel plates according to NDS and Eurocode 5
Add-on Module
Design of Direct Timber Connections According to Eurocode 5
Add-on Module
Comparison of results with defined limit values
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