Using the "Beam Panel" thickness type, you can model timber panel elements in 3D space. You just specify the surface geometry and the timber panel elements are generated using an internal member-surface construct, including the simulation of the connection flexibility.
A "beam panel" provides you with the following advantages:
Single-sided and double-sided sheathing is possible
Automatic calculation of a semi-rigid coupling
Boarded sheathing
Stapled sheathing
User-defined sheathing
Representation as a complete geometric 3D object (frame, crosstie, column, sheeting, staples), including eccentricity
Considering openings via surface cells
Design of the structural elements utilizing the Timber Design add-on
Independent of material (for example, drywall with cold-formed sections and gypsum fibreboards as the sheathing)
In the "Steel Joints" add-on, you can consider preloaded bolts in all components during the calculation. You can easily activate the preloading using the check box in the bolt parameters, and it has an impact on the stress-strain analysis as well as the stiffness analysis.
Preloaded bolts are special bolts used in steel structures to generate a high clamping force between the connected structural components. This clamping force causes friction between the structural components, which allows for the transfer of forces.
Functionality Preloaded bolts are tightened with a certain torque, causing them to stretch and generate a tensile force. This tensile force is transferred to the connected components and leads to a high clamping force. The clamping force prevents the connection from loosening and ensures safe force transmission.
Advantages
High load-bearing capacity: Preloaded bolts can transfer large forces.
Low deformation: They minimize the deformation of the connection.
Fatigue strength: They are resistant to fatigue.
Easy assembly: They are relatively easy to assemble and disassemble.
Analysis and Design The calculation of preloaded bolts is performed in RFEM using the FE analysis model generated by the "Steel Joints" add-on. It takes into account the clamping force, friction between structural components, shear strength of bolts, and load-bearing capacity of the structural components. The design is carried out according to DIN EN 1993‑1‑8 (Eurocode 3) or the US standard ANSI/AISC 360‑16. You can save the created analysis model, including the results, and use it as an independent RFEM model.
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.
The model is rendered photorealistically (optionally with textures). This gives you the advantage that you always have immediate control of the input. You can freely adjust the display colors and save them separately for the screen as well as for the printout.
Discover the advantages of working with the various add-ons for RFEM 6 and RSTAB 9. All add-ons are integrated in the programs. This allows seamless interaction between the individual program parts and ensure that your analysis and design runs smoothly. Some examples of this are the determination of the ideal overturning moment of timber beams using the "Torsional Warping (7 DOF)" add-on and the consideration of staggered form-finding processes by means of the "Construction Stages Analysis (CSA)" add-on.
Convince yourself by the powerful calculation kernel, its optimized networking and support of multi-core processor technology. This provides you with the advantages, such as parallel calculations of linear load cases and load combinations using several processors without additional demands on the RAM. The stiffness matrix only has to be created once. Thus, you can calculate even large systems with the fast direct solver. If you need to calculate multiple load combinations in your models, the program initiates several solvers in parallel (one per core). Each solver then calculates a load combination, which improves the core utilization. You can systematically follow the development of the deformation displayed in a diagram during the calculation, and thus precisely evaluate the convergence behavior.
Clear arrangement is a great advantage of RFEM 6. In your result tables, it is shown in color whether the internal forces are positive or negative, and what is the relation to the extreme values. Also in the graphic, you can recognize the positive or negative internal forces due to different colors. These colors can be changed, if necessary.
When archiving projects, you can also save other document files from the project folder. Then, the data are compressed in a ZIP file. The advantage is that the archive can be unzipped by programs other than Dlubal Software programs.
A global dialog box manages the units of input data, loads, and results in RFEM/RSTAB as well as in all add‑on modules.
Take advantage of the helpful functions offered below: You can save your settings and import them again later. In this way, you can This requires, for example, to use different sections for steel and reinforced concrete structures.
When archiving projects, you can also save other document files from the project folder. Then, the data are compressed in a ZIP file. The advantage is that the archive can be unzipped by programs other than Dlubal Software programs.