Three Dimensional

Static and Dynamic

Analysis and
Design of Buildings
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the Modeling, Analysis and Design of
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• Optimized for modeling of
Features
multistory buildings
• 3D perspective, plan, elevation,
developed elevation, and custom
views
• 3D model generation using plans
and elevations
• CAD drawing/editing for fast,
intuitive framing layout
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Features
• Extensive Analysis Capabilities
– Linear Static Analysis
– Linear Dynamic Analysis
– Static and Dynamic P-Delta Analysis
– Static Non-Linear Analysis
– Dynamic Non-Linear Analysis
– Pushover Analysis
– Multiple Response Spectrum Analysis
– Multiple Time History Analysis
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– Construction sequence loading analysis

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Features
• Fast generation of model
using the concept of
similar stories
• Automated templates for
typical structures
• Easy editing with move,
merge, mirror and
replicate
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Features
• Multiple views in 3D perspective with zooming and
snapping
• Onscreen assignment of properties, loading and
supports
• Powerful grouping, selection and Display options
• Cut, copy and paste options
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Features
• Unlimited levels of undo and
redo
• Cut/Paste geometry to and
from spreadsheets
• Import and export of .DXF file
for model geometry
• Detailed context-sensitive
online help
• Analysis integrated with post-
processing and design
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Interacti Realistic
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Modeli
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Interacti Powerful Viewing
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Modeli
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Interacti Powerful Viewing
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Modeli
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Interacti Powerful Viewing
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Modeli
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Interacti Flexible Grid
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Modeling
Systems
• Convenient dividing and
meshing of design objects
• Multiple simultaneous
rectangular and cylindrical
grid systems
• Accurate dimensioning with
guidelines and snapping
• Quick-draw options to create
objects with one mouse click
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Interacti Parametric
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Modeling
Templates
• Automated model generation for typical structures
using powerful templates
– Steel Deck
– Flat Slab
– Two-way Slab
– Waffle Slab
– Ribbed Slab
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Interacti “Similar “ Story
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Modeling
Concept
• Time saving Story
definitions using
the concept of
similar Stories
• Common labeling
of Objects
between similar
Stories
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Interacti Object Based
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Modeling
Modeling
• Area objects for
– Walls, Slabs/Decks, Opening,
Springs, Mass, Loads

• Line objects for

– Columns, Beams, Braces, Links,
Springs, Mass, Loads

• Point objects for

– Supports, Springs, Mass, Loads
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Interacti Rigid Diaphragm
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Modeling
Concept
• Define Rigid
Diaphragms to
effectively model
floor slabs and to
constrain
deformations
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Interacti Extensive Section
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Modelin Database
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• Built-in
database of
steel sections
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Interacti Powerful Section
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Modeling
Designer
• Graphical Section Designer for
defining custom sections
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Interacti Feedback and
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Modeling
Information
• Right button click for element or
design information
• Customized display of
parameters and attributes
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Interacti Building
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Modeling
Loads
• No limit on number
of independent load
cases
• Gravity loads
specified as point,
line or area loads
• Wind and Seismic
Load Generator for
several codes
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Interacti Building
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Modeling
Loads
• Automatic wind load
generation
– UBC, BOCA, ASCE,
NBCC
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Modelin Loads
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• Automatic Seismic Load

Generation
– UBC, BOCA, NBCC
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Modeling
Loads
• Built-in response
spectrum and time
history input
• User-defined
response spectrum
functions
• User defined time
history functions
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Modeling
Loads
• Temperature and
thermal-gradient loads
• Algebraic, absolute,
SRSS, and enveloping
load combination
• Mass directly specified
or calculated from
gravity load
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 Modeli Powerful Object Based
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ts Elements
• Area objects • Lines objects • Point objects
– Walls • Columns – Supports
– Slabs/Decks • Beams – Springs
– Opening • Braces – Mass
– Mass • Links – Loads
– Loads • Springs
• Mass
• Loads
• Plastic Hinge
• Non-linear
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 Modeli Beam, Column and Brace
Elements
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Elements
• Axial, bending, torsional
and shear deformations
• Multiple non-prismatic
segments over element
length
• Ends offset from reference
nodes in any direction
• Automated evaluation of
offsets for joint size
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 Modeli Beam, Column and Brace
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Elements
• Moment and shear
releases and partial-
fixity
• Point, uniform and
trapezoidal loading in
any direction
• Temperature and
thermal-gradient loading
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 Modeli Wall, Slab, Deck
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Elements
• Shell, plate or
membrane action
• General quadrilateral or
triangular element
• Six degree of freedom
per joint
• Uniform load in any
direction
• Temperature and
thermal-gradient loading
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 Modeli Wall, Slab and Deck
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Elements
• Use these
Elements to Model
– Shear Walls
– Bearing Walls
– Wall Panels
– Concrete Slabs
– Diaphragms
– Metal Decks
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 Modeli Joint
Elements
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Element
• For modeling of Support
• Coupled or uncoupled
grounded springs
• Force loads
• Ground-displacement loads
• Inclined Supports
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 Modeli Plastic Hinge
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Elemen Element
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Panel zone or inside
Frame Elements
• Axial, flexural, shear and
torsional behavior
• Axial-load/ biaxial-
moment interaction
• Multilinear behavior
including softening
• Tabulated and Graphical
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 Modeli Nonlinear Link
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Elements
• Used with the Dynamic
Nonlinear Analysis
option
• Used as Link, Spring or
as Panel zone
• Viscous damper with
nonlinear exponent on
velocity term
• Gap (compression only)
and Hook (tension only)
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 Modeli Nonlinear Link
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• Uniaxial plasticity (all 6
degree of freedom)
• Base isolator with
biaxial-plasticity
behavior
• Base isolator with
friction and/or pendulum
behavior
• Force or displacement
vs. time plots
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• Force vs. deformation

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Options
Options
• Linear Static Analysis
• Linear Dynamic Analysis
• Static and Dynamic P-Delta
Analysis
• Static Non-Linear Analysis
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 Main Analysis
Options
• Dynamic Non-Linear
Analysis
• Pushover Analysis
• Multiple Response
Spectrum Analysis
• Multiple Time History
Analysis
• Construction sequence
loading analysis
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 Analys Special Analysis
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Options
Options
• Explicit Panel-zone
deformations
• Automatic tributary-
area calculations for
Live-Load reduction
factors
• Construction
sequence loading
analysis
• Automated center of
rigidity calculations
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 Analys Special Analysis
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Options
Options
• Automatic transfer of
loads on decks/slabs
to beams and walls
• Automatic meshing of
frame members into
analysis elements
• Automatic meshing of
decks/slabs for
flexible diaphragm
analysis
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 Analys Dynamic Analysis
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Options
Options
• Static and dynamic
response combinations
by ABS or SRSS
method
• Eigen and load-
dependent Ritz vector
determination
• Model combination by
SRSS, CQC or GMC
(Gupta) method
• Combination of three
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direction by ABS or
SRSS method
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Optio
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• Multiple Response
Spectrum cases
• Multiple Time history
cases
• Sequential Time History
cases
• Seismic acceleration or
displacement excitation
• Wind-load forcing
functions
• Transient or steady-
state excitation
• Envelope or step-by-
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History loads
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Optio
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• Static Nonlinear Analysis
– Large displacement option
– Sequential loading option
• Dynamic Nonlinear
Analysis Options
The nonlinear dynamic
analysis option extends the
capabilities of the Linear
Time History option by
allowing for nonlinearity in
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predefined nonlinear
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 Analys Static Pushover
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Options
Analysis
• Considers FEMA 273, ATC-40 provisions
• Automated force-deformation relations for steel and
concrete hinges
• Modal uniform, or user-defined lateral load patterns
• Start from applied gravity load
• Capacity Spectrum conversions
• Effective damping calculation
• Demand Spectrum comparisons
• Performance point calculation
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• Summary reports including plastic-hinge

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Optio
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 Analys Analysis
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Results
Results
• Deformed and Un-
deformed geometry
in 3D perspective
• Animation of
deformed shapes
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 Analys Analysis
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Results
Results
• Bending-Moment and
Shear-Force diagrams
for Frames
• Instantaneous on-
screen results output
with right-button click
on element
• Integrated-force
diagrams for Wall Piers
and Spandrels
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 Analys Analysis
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Results
Results
• Loading diagrams
• Stress contours for
shells
• Interactive Section-
force results using
Groups
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 Analys Dynamic Analysis
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Results
Results
• Time-History deformed
shapes as real time AVI
file
• Displays of nodal and
element time-history
records
• Time History displays of
function vs. time or
function vs. function
• Response spectrum
curves for any joint from
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Time History response

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Results
Output
• Selective or
complete tabulated
output for all output
quantities
• Graphics output to
screen, printer, DXF
file, or Windows
Metafile
• Tabulated output to
screen, printer, or
Access Database
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 Memb Fully Integrated Element
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Design
Design
• Design of Steel Beams, and Columns
• Design of Concrete Beams and Columns
• Design of Composite Beams
• Design of Concrete Shear Walls
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 Memb Steel Frame
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Desig
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Design Output

Analysis Model
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 Memb Steel Frame
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Design
Design
• Fully integrated steel frame
design
• AISC-ASD, AISC-LRFD, UBC,
Canadian and Euro codes
• Design for static and dynamic
loads
• Graphical display of stress
ratios
• Interactive design and review
• Summary and detailed reports
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 Memb Steel Frame
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Design
Design
• Optimizations for
strength and lateral drift
• Seismic design of special
moment-resisting frames
• Seismic design of
concentric and eccentric
braced frames
• Check of panel zones for
stiffener and continuity
plates
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 Memb Concrete Frame
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Desig
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 Memb Concrete Frame
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Design
Design
• Fully integrated concrete frame
design
• ACI, UBC, Canadian and Euro
codes
• Design for static and dynamic
loads
• Seismic design of intermediate/
special moment-resisting
frames
• Seismic design of beam/
column joints
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• Seismic check for strong-

column/ weak-beam design
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 Memb Concrete Frame
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Design
Design
• Graphical Section Designer
for concrete rebar location
• Biaxial-moment/ axial-load
interaction diagrams
• Graphical display of
reinforcement and stress
ratios
• Interactive design and review
• Summary and detail reports
including database formats
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 Memb Composite Beam
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Desig
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 Memb Composite Beam
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Design
Design
• AISC-ASD and AISC-LRFD
Specifications
• Automatic calculation of
effective slab widths
• Numerous user-specified
constraints
• Shored and un-shored
design
• Optimal design for strength
and deflections
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• Camber calculation
• Floor Vibration analysis
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 Memb Shear Wall
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Desig
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 Memb Concrete Shear Wall
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Design
Design
• Fully integrated wall pier and
spandrel design
• ACI, UBC and Canadian Codes
• Design for static and dynamic
loads
• Automatic integration of forces
for piers and spandrel
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 Memb Concrete Shear Wall
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Design
Design
• 2D wall pier design and boundary-
member checks
• 2D wall spandrel design
• 3D wall pier check for provided
reinforcement
• Graphical Section Designer for concrete
rebar location
• Graphical display of reinforcement and
stress ratios
• Interactive design and review
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• Summary and detailed reports including

database formats
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The Most Comprehensive Software for
the Modeling, Analysis and Design of
Buildings