- Analysis of steel joints via automatic generation of an FE model from the connection in the background
- Consideration of all internal forces in the design (N, Vy, Vz, My, Mz, and Mt), no restriction to planar loading
- Automatic transfer of the loading of all load combinations at all selected nodes into the FE model
- Time-saving modeling for complex connection situations, you can also save and use the generated FE model for your own detailed analyses
- Extensive, extensible library with predefined steel connection templates
- Possible to be used for any connections with almost all rolled and welded, composite, and thin-walled cross-sections. Currently available cross-sections are I-sections, channel sections, angles and T-sections, built-up cross-sections, rectangular hollow sections, and thin-walled parametric sections.
Steel Joints | Features
The Steel Joints add-on provides you with the option to connect circular hollow sections using welds.
It is possible to connect the circular sections to each other or to planar structural components. The fillets of standard and thin-walled sections can also be connected with a weld.
In the Steel Joints add-on, you can classify the joint stiffness.
In addition to the initial stiffness, the table also shows the limit values for hinged and rigid connections for the selected internal forces N, My, and/or Mz. The resulting classification is then displayed in tables as "hinged", "semi-rigid", or "rigid".
Go to Explanatory VideoIn the Steel Joints add-on, you have this option to consider the preloaded bolts in the calculation of all components.
You can easily activate the prestress using the check box in the bolt parameters, and it has an impact on the stress-strain analysis as well as the stiffness analysis.
Go to Explanatory VideoIn the Steel Joint add-on, you can design the connections of members with composite cross-sections. Furthermore, you can perform joint design checks for almost all thin-walled cross-sections in the RFEM library.
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