Dlubal Software Programs provide a materials library. This library covers almost all materials commonly used in civil engineering, including the corresponding parameters for calculation and design.
The integrated project manager helps you to organize design files of Dlubal Software programs. For this, a link is created between an existing project folder on the hard drive and the Project Manager. If you want to delete a project created in the Project Manager, there are two methods.
Dlubal Software provides students with the complete range of its products free of charge during their studies. The licensing is done by a softlock, taking into account the following.
The increasing use of the BIM method in planning buildings also opens up new possibilities for structural engineers. Once a comprehensive 3D model of a building has been created, you want to continue using it for the structural analysis and gain the maximum benefit from it. However, there are also some new challenges for the structural engineer and the software used, which are described in this article.
In RFEM and RSTAB, there are two predefined unit profiles available by default. These profiles cover the metric and the imperial systems of measurement. You can individually adjust the units predefined by Dlubal Software, including the decimal places used. To avoid losing the changes you have made, you can save a new profile for the units (see Item [1] in the picture). The stored profile can be loaded again (see Item [2] in the picture) or transferred from PC to PC. To do this, simply copy the content of the "Units" folder in the RFEM or RSTAB file directory from one PC to another (see Item [3] in the picture). In this way, you can achieve an office standard regarding the units used in all your workplaces.
The Master's Thesis of Tamás Drávai, Haroon Khalyar, and Gábor Nagy deals with the effect of interoperability between Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Finite Element Modeling (FEM) software on structural modeling and analysis. Several case studies were conducted, where a building information model was transferred from CAD to FEM software with different data exchange formats.
The current state of the development of finite element analysis software and computer technology allows for the calculation of more complex structure. More and more frequently, FE calculations are performed on the entire model. In this context, certain practical construction problems may appear. One of these problems is the consideration of a construction process in the model.
SHAPE‑THIN cross‑section properties software determines the effective section properties of thin‑walled cross‑sections according to Eurocode 3 and Eurocode 9. Alternatively, the program allows plastic design of general cross‑sections according to the Simplex Method. In this process, plastic cross-section reserves are iteratively calculated for elastically determined internal forces. The following example describes the effective cross-section properties in the notching area of a rolled I-section. Afterwards, the results are compared with the plastic analysis.
With RFEM 5.06 and RSTAB 8.06, the examples and help files for programming the COM interface are not only available on the Internet, they are also included in the installation. To find them, look for the "SDK" folder in the project directory (usually C:\Users\Public\Documents\Dlubal).
The network-capable Project Manager controls the projects of all Dlubal Software applications in one central location. A table displays the important information for each model and corresponding file. Now, you can set dimension and weight units in the program options.