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.

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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.

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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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