The Steel Joints add-on is also available to you for structures in the USA. You can use it to design connections according to the American standard ANSI/AISC 360-16. The following design procedures are integrated:
- Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD)
- Allowable Stress Design (ASD)
Design of Steel Joints According to American Standard ANSI/AISC 360-16
Shear walls and deep beams of a building model are available as independent objects in the design add-ons. This allows for faster filtering of the objects in results, as well as better documentation in the printout report.
The building story generator in the Building Model add-on allows you to automatically create building stories, depending on the topology of the model.
In the Concrete Design provides an option to perform seismic design according to AISC 341-16 for steel members.
Five SFRS types (Seismic Force-Resisting Systems) are available for this.
The combination wizard provides you with the option to consider more than one initial state. RFEM and RSTAB allow you to specify different initial states (prestress, form-finding, strain, and so on) for the target combinations in the combinatorics.
You can thus, for example, generate load states on the basis of a form-finding analysis with varying imperfections.