Stress Analysis Software

For a project in Rotterdam, ADS Ertner used IDEA CONNECTION to analyze a structural steel connection. This program calculates steel connections utilizing the CBFEM method, where each thin-walled cross-section is modeled with nonlinear material properties, nonlinear bolts, and nonlinear welds.

A new research station was built in East Antarctica for the Indian Ministry of Geosciences in the Antarctic summer months of 2010/11 and 2011/12. The design and planning come from the offices of bof Architekten and IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft in Hamburg, Germany.

The complex structure consists of an enveloping steel structure and a total of 134 special containers, which were integrated to transfer vertical and horizontal loads. The final structural analysis was carried out by the German engineering office of KSF in Bremerhaven.

The temporary structure of a steel maze was created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the C‑Mine arts center 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 15,069.5 ft².

A glass pedestrian bridge with a length of 98.4 ft connects St. Michael's Hospital with the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute research center.

The supporting structure consists of several oval steel rings which are twisted together.

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.

The New Candlewood Suites on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, is the first cross‑laminated timber (CLT) hotel constructed in the US.

62,930.7 ft³ of cross-laminated timber and 12,925.1 ft³ of glued-laminated timber were used for the four-story hotel with 92 rooms.

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 LVL type Kerto‑Q.

The steel structure of a sluice with a 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 increasing traffic, as the original structure of the oldest working boat lift in Germany was running near capacity.

This project for designing a filter/dryer device, including agitator, required a complete stress and deformation analysis in RFEM.

The complex modeling of the structure, which had 1,424 surfaces, 158 solids, and 425 members, represented a special design challenge.