Have you ever wondered if you can render without a graphics card? We have the answer! Software rendering for alternative image synthesis without the support of a graphics card is possible. You can easily control this solution with the Windows command scripts:
Enable Software Renderer.cmd (switch on)
Disable Software Renderer.cmd (switch off)
in the program folder C:\Program Files\Dlubal\RFEM 6.02\bin.
Was your design successful? Very good, now comes the relaxed part. Because the program gives you the performed design checks in a table. You can display all result details in detail here. The clearly presented design formulas ensure that you will be able to understand the results without any problems. There is no black-box effect with Dlubal Software.
The design checks are carried out at all governing locations of the members and displayed graphically as a result diagram. You can find more detailed graphics in the result output. This includes the stress distribution on the cross-section or the governing mode shape, for example.
All input and result data are part of the RFEM/RSTAB printout report. You can select the report contents and extent specifically for the individual design checks.
Dlubal Software just makes everything a little easier. The performed design checks of the design standard are displayed in a clear way. A design criterion is determined for each design check. Furthermore, the program deliver the design details displayed in a structured way, including the initial values, the intermediate results, and the final results. An information window in the design details shows you the calculation process with the applied formulas, standard sources, and results in great detail.
After completing the design, the Dlubal Software presents the fire resistance design checks clearly and with all result details. This makes the results comprehensible in detail. Furthermore, the results also contain all the parameters required for the determination of the component temperature at the design time.
You can also specifically evaluate the temperature distribution in the structural component using the temperature-time diagram.
All result tables and graphics, including the ultimate and serviceability limit state results, can be integrated into the global printout report of RFEM/RSTAB as a part of the steel design results.
WebService and API provide you various scope of application. We have summarized some ideas as to how WebService and API can support your company:
Creating additional applications for RFEM 6, RSTAB 9, and RSECTION 1
Possibility to make the workflows more efficient (for example, model definition and input) and to integrate RFEM 6, RSTAB 9, and RSECTION 1 into your company applications
Simulating and calculating several design options
Running optimization algorithms for size, shape, and/or topology
Accessing the calculation results
Generation of printout reports in the PDF format
The level of quality of the work is automatically increased not only by the algorithmic model definitions, but also by:
Extending / consolidating RFEM 6, RSTAB 9, and RSECTION 1 with your own controls
Increased interoperability between the individual software used to complete a project
Communication is the key to success. This also applies to a client-server relation. WebService and API provides you with an XML based information exchange system for direct client-server communication. Programs, objects, messages, or documents can be integrated into these systems. For example, a web service protocol of the HTTP type runs for the client-server communication when you are looking for something in the Internet using a search engine.
Now back to Dlubal Software. In our case, the client is your programming environment (.NET, Python, JavaScript) and the service provider is RFEM 6. Client-server communication allows you to send requests to and receive feedback from RFEM, RSTAB, or RSECTION.
What is the difference between WebService and an API?
WebService is a collection of open source protocols and standards used to exchange data between systems and applications. In contrast, an application programming interface (API), is a software interface through which two applications can interact without a user being involved.
Thus, all web services are APIs, but not all APIs are web services.
What are the advantages of the WebService technology? You can communicate more quickly within and between organizations.A service can be independent of other services.Webservice allows you to use your application to make your message or feature available to the rest of the world.Webservice helps you to exchange data between different applications and platforms Several applications can communicate, exchange data, and share services with each other. SOAP ensures that programs created on different platforms and based on different programming languages can exchange data securely.
Communication between the web service client and server is optionally encrypted via the https protocol. To do this, you can install an SSL certificate with the corresponding private key in the settings.
In this case, you calculate the critical load factor for all analyzed load combinations and the selected number of mode shapes for the connection model. Compare the smallest critical load factor with the limit value 15 from the standard EN 1993‑1‑1, Clause 5. Furthermore, you can make user-defined adjustment of the limit value. As a result of the stability analysis, the program displays the corresponding mode shapes graphically.
For the stability analysis, RFEM uses the adapted surface model to specifically recognize the local buckling shapes. You can also save and use the model of the stability analysis, including the results, as a separate model file.
Reinforced concrete usually answers the question "How much can you carry?" simply with "Yes". Nevertheless, you need a three-dimensional moment-moment-axial force interaction diagram for the graphical output of the ultimate limit state of reinforced concrete cross-sections. The Dlubal structural analysis software offers you just that.
With the additional display of the load action, you can easily recognize or visualize whether the limit resistance of a reinforced concrete cross-section is exceeded. Since you can control the diagram properties, you can customize the appearance of the My-Mz-N diagram to suit your needs.
Take your structural design one step further. RFEM 6 and RSTAB 9 support now a new file format for structural design, Structural Analysis Format (SAF). For this, both programs allow for the import as well as the export. SAF is a file format based on MS Excel, intended to facilitate the exchange of structural analysis models between different software applications.
RFEM is entering a new phase with RFEM 6! The new generation of the 3D FEA software is also used for the structural analysis of members, surfaces, and solids. Many of the tried and tested features remain, but we have improved them and added new features to make your work with RFEM even easier.
What particularly distinguishes RFEM 6 is the modern design concept, with the add-ons integrated directly into the program. Curious to learn more?
We have extensively modernized the 3D structural analysis software RSTAB 9 for you. The add-ons integrated directly into the program allow you to design beam structures consisting of reinforced concrete, steel, timber, masonry, and other materials. Convince yourself!
Calculation of stationary incompressible turbulent wind flow using the SimpleFOAM solver from the OpenFOAM® software package
Numerical scheme according to the first and second order
Turbulence models RAS k-ω and RAS k-ε
Consideration of surface roughness depending on model zones
Model design via VTP, STL, OBJ, and IFC files
Operation via bidirectional interface of RFEM or RSTAB for importing model geometries with standard-based wind loads and exporting wind load cases with probe-based printout report tables
Intuitive model changes via drag & drop and graphical adjustment assistance
Generation of a shrink-wrap mesh envelope around the model geometry
Consideration of environmental objects (buildings, terrain, and so on)
Height-dependent description of the wind load (wind speed and turbulence intensity)
Automatic meshing depending on a selected depth of detail
Consideration of layer meshes near the model surfaces
Parallelized calculation with optimal utilization of all processor cores of a computer
Graphical output of the surface results on the model surfaces (surface pressure, Cp coefficients)
Graphical output of the flow field and vector results (pressure field, velocity field, turbulence – k-ω field, and turbulence – k-ε field, velocity vectors) on Clipper/Slicer planes
Display of 3D wind flow via animated streamline graphics
Definition of point and line probes
Multilingual user interface (German, English, Czech, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese)
Calculations of several models in one batch process
Generator for creating rotated models to simulate different wind directions
Optional interruption and continuation of the calculation
Individual color panel per result graphic
Display of diagrams with separate output of results on both sides of a surface
Output of the dimensionless wall distance y+ in the mesh inspector details for the simplified model mesh
Determination of the shear stress on the model surface from the flow around the model
Calculation with an alternative convergence criterion (you can select between the residual types pressure or flow resistance in the simulation parameters)
Technology takes you further, also in your daily work with RFEM / RSTAB. The new API technology Webservice allows you to create your own desktop or web-based applications by controlling all objects included in RFEM 6 / RSTAB 9. Entire libraries and numerous functions are available to you. Thus, you can easily perform your own design checks, effective modeling of parametric structures, and optimization and automation processes using the programming languages Python and C#. Dlubal Software makes your work easier and more convenient. Check it out now!
Dlubal Software supports its customers with their construction planning worldwide. The modern online licensing system allows licenses of RFEM, RSTAB, and other programs to be distributed all over the world and assigned to the respective users via the Dlubal Account.
With Dlubal Software, you always have an overview, regardless of whether your projects are from the reinforced concrete, steel, timber, aluminum, or other industry. The program clearly displays the design check formulas used in your design (including a reference to the used equation from the standard). These design check formulas can also be included in the printout report.
Search our FAQ page for answers to your questions and problems. You can find answers to frequently asked questions provided by hotline engineers of Dlubal Software as well as solutions to commonly encountered problems.
Do you want comprehensible structural calculations? Then Dlubal structural analysis software is the right choice. The programs provide you with calculations without being a "black box". See for yourself and check out the verification examples available here, which will reveal the calculation methods to you.
The Dlubal structural analysis software does a lot of work for you. The input parameters, which are relevant for the selected standards, are suggested by the program in accordance with the rules. Furthermore, you can enter response spectra manually.
Load cases of the type Response Spectrum Analysis define the direction in which response spectra act and which eigenvalues of the structure are relevant for the analysis. In the spectral analysis settings, you can define details for the combination rules, damping (if applicable), and zero-period acceleration (ZPA).
Dlubal Software makes many of your work steps easier to support you. Thus, the surfaces, members, member sets, materials, surface thicknesses, and sections defined in RFEM/RSTAB are preset to facilitate the data input. You can use the [Select] function at many places of the program to select the elements graphically. Furthermore, you have an access to the global material and cross-section libraries.
You can group surfaces or members into "Configurations", each with different design parameters. This way, it is possible for you to efficiently calculate design alternatives with different boundary conditions or modified cross-sections, for example. You will be amazed how much faster everything works with RFEM/RSTAB.
RSECTION also offers everything you need in terms of overview. You can evaluate and visualize all results in an appealing numerical and graphical form. Selection functions support you in the targeted evaluation.
The printout report corresponds to the high standards of the FEA software RFEM and the frame analysis software RSTAB. Any modifications are updated automatically. You don't have to do anything.
There is a known complexity in calculating footfall response on irregular floors or staircases of any type. Footfall Analysis uses the RFEM model and the modal analysis results of RF-DYNAM Pro - Natural Vibrations to predict the vibration levels at all locations on a floor. A rigorous analysis method is essential to enable an accurate investigation of the dynamic behavior of the floor.
The software incorporates the most up-to-date analysis procedures, allowing the user to select between the two most often used calculation methods available, namely the Concrete Centre Method (CCIP-016) and the Steel Construction Institute Method (P354).
Footfall Analysis links with RFEM, using the model geometry from there, thus the user is not required to create a second model specifically for footfall analysis
Allows the user to analyze any type of structure for footfall analysis, irrespective of the shape, material, or use
Quick and accurate predictions of resonant and impulsive (transient) responses
Cumulative measurement of vibration levels – VDV analysis
Intuitive output enabling the engineer to advise improvements of critical areas in a cost-effective way
Pass/fail limit check in accordance with BS 6472 and ISO 10137
Selection of excitation forces: CCIP-016, SCI P354, AISC DG11 for floors and stairs
Frequency weighting curves (BS 6841)
Quick investigation for full model or specific areas
Vibration Dose Analysis (VDV)
Adjusting the minimum and maximum walking frequencies as well as the walker’s weight
User input damping values
Varying the number of footfalls for resonant response, user input or software calculated
Environmental response limit based on BS 6472 and ISO 10137
Work on your models with efficient and precise calculations in the digital wind tunnel. RWIND 2 uses a numerical CFD model (Computational Fluid Dynamics) to simulate wind flows around objects. Specific wind loads are generated from the simulation process for RFEM or RSTAB.
RWIND 2 performs this simulation using a 3D volume mesh. The program provides automatic meshing; you can easily set the entire mesh density as well as the local mesh refinement on the model using a few parameters. A numerical solver for incompressible turbulent flows is used to calculate the wind flows and the surface pressures on the model. The results are then extrapolated to your model. RWIND 2 is designed to work with different numerical solvers.
We currently recommend using the OpenFOAM® software package, which has provided very good results in our tests and is also a frequently used tool for CFD simulations. Alternative numerical solvers are under development.
If you are interested in making your daily work easier and more efficient, you should also pay attention to this feature. Program configuration menus and toolbars can be freely customized. This allows you to arrange your frequently used functions in a user-defined way and save time. Everything from the beginning? No problem: You can restore the default settings of the program with a mouse click. Tables, navigators, and toolbars can also be moved and docked as required.
Furthermore, you can use the configuration manager to set the graphic display properties, toolbars, and so on in a user-defined way and save them as your own configuration. Thus, the software becomes your individual productivity enhancer.
Dlubal Software customers come from all over the world and there are, of course, numerous language options for the structural analysis software. It is possible to operate the program in the following languages: English, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
You can also modify the design of the RFEM/RSTAB user interface: There are nine different styles of graphical user interface to choose from; for example: Office 2007 Blue, Silver, Aqua, and Black. Customize the programs to your individual needs.
The Dlubal programs are user-friendly. This way, you will have a short induction period and easy handling of the software.
Your structure is created in a user interface usual for CAD or via tables. By right-clicking the graphical or navigator objects, you can activate a shortcut menu that allows you to easily create or modify the objects. Try it out for yourself and let yourself be inspired by the intuitive user interface! Therefore, you can create the structural and loading objects in a minimum amount of time.