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IDEA StatiCa is the world-leading solution for the structural design of steel connections, concrete details, and critical members.

QUICK CONNECTION DESIGN

 

Quickly determine if your code passes or fails within minutes using IDEA StatiCa. This tool can significantly cut down your connection design time by up to 80%. Here’s what it offers:

  • Choose from a collection of over 10,000 pre-designed 2D/3D connections, footings, CHS and HSS connections, steel-to-timber, and other types.
  • Easily model and design any bolted and welded connection with speed and safety.
  • Ensure compliance with AISC standards, covering advanced analyses such as buckling, stiffness analysis, design resistance, and seismic considerations.
  • Generate customizable reports with equations and visuals to support and showcase your design work effectively.

Simplify your connection design process and get accurate results swiftly with IDEA StatiCa.

 

⇣ DOWNLOAD SAMPLE REPORT

 

 

ANY GEOMETRY, ANY LOADING

 

Create steel connections of any kind or level of difficulty effortlessly. Whether you’re starting from scratch or importing connections directly from your CAD or FEA software, IDEA StatiCa has you covered. Apply simplified or complex loading, visualize the behavior, and generate connection sketches along with detailed reports. Our capabilities cover a range of connections, including:

  • Steel moment connections within steel structures, shear and axial connections, with a focus on seismic considerations.
  • Various connections like beam to beam, beam to column, column to column, or column to base plate connections.

Designing steel connections becomes straightforward with IDEA StatiCa, offering flexibility and comprehensive solutions for your specific needs.

 

⇣ CHECK OUT OUR SAMPLE PROJECTS

 

 

 

DESIGN CONNECTIONS, ANALYZE, AND REPORT

 

 

 

AVOID OVERDESIGNED CONNECTIONS

 

According to the Steel Construction Cost joint publication from the SCI, BCSA and TATA Steel, the combined cost of fabrication and raw materials is about 60-80% of the end-product. IDEA StatiCa for steel connection design helps you dramatically lower these costs by:

  • Reducing the number of overdesigned structural steel connections
  • Enabling engineers and detailers to share accurate and actionable steel connection data quickly
  • Using efficiently designed connections to decrease carbon consumption during fabrication
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BECOME AN EXPERT ON IDEA STATICA STEEL

Learn how to use IDEA StatiCa Steel with our self-paced e-learning courses from our Campus.

 

 

SIMPLE, MODERATE AND COMPLEX STEEL CONNECTIONS

 

 

 

USE YOUR FEA MODEL

 

⇢ CHECK IF YOUR FEA SOFTWARE IS SUPPORTED

 

 

 

USE YOUR CAD MODEL

 

⇢ CHECK IF YOUR CAD SOFTWARE IS SUPPORTED

Types Of License We Offer

Perpetual Licenses
Duration: Lifetime info
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  • Customised training
  • Maintenance - Unlimited Support
  • Suitable for in-house design teams
  • Bulk Discounts
  • Long-term investment
  • Perfect for Institutions & Corporates
  • Available for all software we sell
Subscriptions Licenses
Duration: Customisable info
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  • Customised training
  • Unlimited Support
  • Suitable for in-house design teams
  • No bulk discounts
  • Less expensive upfront
  • Perfect for MSME's
  • Available for all software we sell

Who Can Benefit

  • Steel Fabricators
  • Structural Design Engineers
  • Academicians

Supported Integrations

Features Integrated with IDEA StatiCa

STRAP
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ETABS
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SAP2000
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TEKLA
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ROBOT
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RISA 3D
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SCIA ENGINEER
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RFEM and RSTAB
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Advance Design
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Modest
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NextFEM
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STAAD.Pro
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FEM-Design
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SkyCiv
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Sofistik
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AxisVM
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ConSteel
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SCADA Pro
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BuildSoft Diamonds and BIM Expert
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SDS2
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Tekla Structures
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Revit
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Advance Steel
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Rhino/ Grasshoppper
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More Features

THE WORLD’S LARGEST DATABASE OF STEEL CONNECTIONS

 

400,000 # of connections

8 # cross-section types

Code Independent

 

 

STUCK FINDING A SOLUTION?

 

Explore the Connection Library, a cloud-based application offering over 400,000 connection design ideas from across the globe.

Effortlessly browse through examples that align with your project, enabling you to quickly find and download the most suitable model within seconds!

 

⇢ OPEN CONNECTION LIBRARY

 

 

SOLVE THE CRITICAL STEEL MEMBER

 

Design and code-check crucial project members such as girders, beams, columns, frames, and more with confidence. Conduct rapid and precise analyses of their load response, stability, and buckling calculations, avoiding the pitfalls of traditional oversimplification.

 

⇣ CHECK OUT A SAMPLE REPORT






NO MORE ESTIMATES OF BUCKLING LENGTHS AND CONNECTION STIFFNESS

 

Utilize our user-friendly interactive application to conduct advanced analyses on members modeled in 3D using shell elements. This detailed connection model includes all components such as stiffeners, bolts, openings, etc. Accurately simulate the behavior of your structures and members, employing code-based geometrically and materially nonlinear analysis with imperfection (GMNIA) for thorough final checks. This ensures a comprehensive assessment of your project’s structural integrity.

 

 

 

WHAT DOES MEMBER SOLVE?

 

  • Stability Issues
  • Cold-Form Sections
  • Frames and Subframes
  • Strengthening Structures

 

COMPLETE ANALYSIS IN 3 STEPS

  • Materially Non-Linear Analysis
  • Linear Buckling Analysis
  • GMNIA Analysis

SEAMLESS STEEL DESIGN

 

Design any steel connection or member without re-entering data you already have in another application. Import and synchronize all your connections and members and slash design time by up to 80%!

 

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BIM TOOLS FOR YOUR ENTIRE WORKFLOW

 

Not everyone requires IDEA StatiCa installed on their PC to manage numerous connections with Checkbot. However, everyone can inspect connections through our free cloud application, Viewer. Detailers have the option to export from their CAD using dedicated plugins for added convenience.

 

Talk With An Expert

Our IDEA StatiCa experts are available round the clock to assist you, go ahead and connect now.

Frequently Ask Questions

IDEA StatiCa Steel has been introduced to the engineering world in 2014. Since then, it brought to its users a true revolution and significant advantages on time-saving, productivity and safety of steel structures.

IDEA StatiCa Steel is not a complex software package. 95% of our customers saw the potential in 30 minutes of testing, i.e. after designing a couple of joints themselves. Just to be sure, we provide a 14-day trial.

If you want to learn the steel connection design with IDEA StatiCa Steel thoroughly, you should try out our online course IDEA StatiCa Campus. With an estimated time investment of about 40-50 hours, you can learn all the necessary stuff to be able to use IDE StatiCa fully and effectively.

We have European, American, Australian, Indian, Hongkong, Canadian, Russian, Chinese

Plates has been checked here by Component based finite element analysis

The answer is yes. Validation and verification of the CBFEM solution is the essential part of the process of IDEA StatiCa software development. There has been extensive research done in this field, which is available partly on the IDEA StatiCa webpage or CBFEM webpage or in the book “Component-based finite element design of steel connections” by Prof. Frantisek Wald.

Ideastatica will check for the input provided by the Engineers. Software doesn’t suggest any value specifically to follow.

BIM links to the most widespread FEA and CAD programs are being developed and maintained by IDEA StatiCa and are a part of the installation setup. For any other FEA and CAD program, the BIM link can be created using the public API interface IDEA Open Model (IOM).

 

After installation, IDEA StatiCa automatically integrates the BIM links to your FEA and CAD programs. For later installed programs, BIM links can be activated in the BIM link installer.

 

The data transfer from FEA and CAD projects to IDEA StatiCa is realized via the Code-check manager. The code-check manager is an application to import and manage structural joints and connections that you want to analyze and code-check in IDEA StatiCa. It also allows merging imported models from CAD and FEA projects into one, synchronizing the imported models after you update the source FEA or CAD project and more.

IDEA StatiCa came up with a new method called component-based Finite Element Model, CBFEM which is a synergy of component method and finite element method. We use finite elements to get the stress-strain analysis of the joint and then to apply standard checks like in the component method.

 

We came with a different approach for steel joint design, that is why we paid special attention to its verification and validation, right from the start for years ago.

The first level of testing the new software was to take dozens of standard joints from Eurocode and US design guides and calculate them with IDEA StatiCa.

 

The second level was to laboriously create models in FEA programs and comparing them to results achieved in IDEA StatiCa Connection in minutes.

 

The third level of testing was live lab tests. Again, the same results. Two university teams spent over 3 years on this.

 

And published it in various articles, benchmark studies, and most importantly, verification book.

The database of Connection Library is based on data collected through another IDEA StatiCa cloud application for sharing project files – Viewer. Collected connection designs were anonymized and stripped of all the data but cross-sections, members, and building code. No data from our desktop applications was used to build the Connection Library database.

No, they are not. And they cannot be; we stripped them of all data, including loadings.

These design examples are set to guide the way how such steel connections could be modeled. You can download them and use them as model templates for your own design project. Just apply the respective loading as per project needs, and calculate them.

No, the Connection Library on your desktop works only with data of your IDEA StatiCa installation – predefined connection designs, your company set, and your private set.

Yes, you can! Just upload them to the IDEA StatiCa Viewer

It usually takes us a few weeks to process all the new data and update the database of results.

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