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Finite Elements for geotechnical practitioners - simple and 3D

Unique limit analysis tool with lower and upper bounds. Works for shallow foundations, monopiles and much more.
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OPTUM G3

Shallow foundations, monopiles and much more. OPTUM G3 is a ground breaking Finite Element Analysis software package with all the Optum functionality in 3D.

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OPTUM G3

Foundations

OPTUM G3 is the ideal solution for shallow foundation analysis and design. The unique Optum analysis type of Limit Analysis provides a means for determining bearing capacities in an efficient and convenient manner. Rigorous upper and lower bounds can be computed to bracket the true solution from above and below, thus providing an in-built means of numerical verification. Elastoplastic analysis is available for determining settlements.

Slope stability

In OPTUM G3, factors of safety are computed using Strength Reduction Finite Element Limit Analysis (SR-FELA).Besides short calculation times, SR-FELA also provides the possibility to calculate rigorous upper and lower bounds on the true factor of safety. In practice, this means that the true factor of safety can be determined with within a negligible tolerance in a matter of seconds.

Retaining walls

In Retaining walls come in a wide variety of types including mass gravity walls, mechanically stabilized earth walls, gabion walls and sheet pile walls. All of these can be analysed efficiently and accurately using the OPTUM G3. The unique ability to compute rigorous upper and lower bounds on the true factor of safety add confidence in the results. When combined with mesh adaptivity, the result is a superior tool for design of retaining walls.

Embankments

A road, railway line or canal is normally raised onto an embankment made of compacted soil (typically clay or rock-based) to avoid a change in level required by the terrain. OPTUM G3 provides an efficient and reliable means of simulating the construction of embankments. Settlements and pore pressures are calculated in a straightforward manner and the overall stability of the embankment can be gauged at any time.

Excavations

Deep excavations are often risky undertakings that require careful planning and, as part of that, detailed and accurate analysis. The reliability and efficiency of OPTUM G3 makes it the ideal tool the simulation of deep excavations. Accurate soil models and a wide array of tools and options for modelling support systems, from retaining walls to anchors and soil nails, are available.

Monopile foundation

A monopile foundation consists of a steel pile, typically with a diameter of 3 to 5 metres driven some 10 to 20 metres into the ground depending on the conditions. OPTUM G3 provides all the necessary tools for detailed analysis and design of monopiles including Limit Analysis for ultimate capacity assessment and Elastoplastic analysis for determining displacements.

Load-displacement analysis – FEM

Precise and realistic assessment of displacements is a fundamental part of many design tasks. With elasto-plastic and consolidation analysis types a wide range of problems can be effectively designed. Staged analysis has never been easier with the user activating and deactivating regions in solid model – not on the meshed model.

Calculate limit load – in one step!

Get access to the most advanced FE capabilities on the market – tailored and made accessible for engineering practitioners. With and unique built-in Limit Analysis options you can now calculate bearing capacities in a single step. Use this unique and amazingly fast analysis type in connection with traditional elasto-plastic analysis and move fast and safer ahead than ever before

3D reinvented – faster than ever

For many geotechnical practitioners 3D FE analysis is considered as the very last resort for completing a design – mainly due to complexities with setting up models combined with often very long CPU times. With OptumG3 begins a new chapter. With the unique MIXED element users can within seconds compute bearing capacities with unseen precision. Validate with UPPER and LOWER bound computations and compute Load-Displacement curves using the Elasto-Plastic analysis feature.

Model creation – intuitive and fast

Setting up models and defining geometry in 3D has never been easier. OptumG3 comes with state-of-the art built in 3D modelling tools that lets the user built 3D models with almost same ease as in 2D. For more complex geometries you can import IGES and STEP files and continue working on the imported geometry. Add interfaces and shells with same ease as in G2.

Unique Features

Costs below 2500$ per year
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Gantry frames with steel scissors and rolled I profiles
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Reinforced concrete and steel column systems
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Solve together with singular foundations.
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While performing cost analysis, this can calculate the amount and cost of paint to be used, as well as the surface area to be painted.
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By calculating the quantity of welding, the required labor force and cost as well as the quantity of steel and reinforced concrete structural elements, it can help you to make accurate quotations with realistic cost analysis and prepare business plans.
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Comosys

Analyses
Element Library
Supershell & Automatic Meshing
Loading
Foundations Analyses
General Purpose Finite Element Analysis
Post Processing
International Design Codes
Flexible Design Scenarios
Design Parameter Overrides
Intelligent Design Combo Generation
Design Evaluation
Correct Calculation of K-Factors
Deflection Checks
Special Design Checks
Color Coded Design Output and Easy to Use Output Files
Response Spectrum Analysis Combinations
General Modeling Capabilities
Extensive Connection Library
Complex Details
Comclash Technology
Auto Adjust
IntelliConnect & Intelliclone
Ancillary Steelwork
Automatic Drawings & Lists
General Modeling Capabilities
Modeling of Formwork Elements
Secondary Concrete Modeling
Embedded Steel Modeling
Generalized Anchor Bolt Modeling
Concrete and Formwork Material Take-Off
Embedded Steel Drawings
Formwork Drawings
Surface Rebar-Tracer Technology
Specific Template Macros
Automatic Numbering
Operations on Surface Bars
Template Rebar Drawings
General Rebar Drawings
Model Based – Specification Driven
Cable Tray & Raceway Modeling
Support Modeling
Cable Routing & Cable Lists
Consumer Modeling
Material Take-Off
Electrical Panels
Automatic Plans, Sections, and 3D Views
Shell Plates Modeling
Base Plates Modeling
Roof Plates Modeling
Nozzle and Manhole Modeling
Ladder Modeling
Foundation Modeling
Manual Modeling
Production of Shop Drawings
Automatic Material Take-Off
Adding Views
Taking Sections
Dimensions
Frame, Plate, Bolt, and Weld Annotations
REBAR Annotaions
Material Take-Off
Insertion of Special CAD Details
Export to Popular CAD Formats
Drawing Manager
Automatically Produce Drawings – Steel Shop drawings (Assembly drawings), Steel single-part drawings, Concrete rebar template drawings, Tank detail drawings
Manually Produce Drawings – Steel General Arrangement drawings, Concrete Formwork drawings

Why is COMOSYS different?

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Geotechnics

CESAR is a calculation software enabling modelling and analysis of geotechnical problems. Proven, powerful and user-friendly, it covers a wide scope of soil and rock mechanics applications (deformation, stability…). It is a valuable tool for geotechnical engineers for embankment, excavation, foundation or tunnel studies, and more.

Geotechnical Engineering Applications

CESAR is bundled with an extensive constitutive model library (linear and non-linear elasticity, Mohr-Coulomb, Hardening Soil, Cam-Clay…) relevant to the study of deformations and stresses in soil masses.

Consolidation analysis (coupling) allows the study of primary and secondary settlement of soil masses.

Finally, CESAR features the required calculation procedures in order to obtain safety coefficients in regards to stability (c-phi reduction procedure) or stresses (e.g. limit pressure search).

Failure mechanism of a slope after c-phi reduction (from Perau et al.)

Stability of a slope reinforced with nails

Bearing capacity a footing after limit pressure analysis

CESAR offers intuitive and comprehensive tools for simulating consecutive passes of embanking or excavation, integrating realistic construction stages. Numerous pre-defined elements are available to model structures and their interaction with the soil mass, or the reinforcement of soil masses (anchors, geogrids, bolts…).

These tools enable geotechnical engineers to predict ground movements induced by and endured throughout construction.

Model of retaining wall with anchors

Excavation supported by a braced sheeting wall
 

CESAR is bundled with the required tools for modelling the water table as a mechanical load. The user can also perform independent hydrogeological calculations: transient and steady state flows, in saturated or unsaturated soils (van Genuchten and Gardner models or user-defined saturation curves).

Thus, the user is able to model complex hydrogeologic problems with varying water levels and flow conditions such as dewatering or groundwater control.

Dewatering inside an excavation

Flow in a dike with drainage system

Customer Projects

mkaPEB Features

STRUCTURAL MODELLING ELEMENTS

LOADING

ANALYSIS

RESULTS OUTPUT

CONCRETE DESIGN

STEEL DESIGN

Tunnels

CESAR is a powerful geotechnical software for modeling and analyzing tunnel projects. It supports conventional excavation methods like NATM, tunnel boring machines (TBM), cut-and-cover construction, and ground support design. With its detailed tools for modeling excavation sequences, soil-structure interactions, and reinforcement strategies, CESAR is essential for ensuring stability and minimizing settlements in tunnel engineering

Tunnel Applications

The user will easily produce tunnel design projects by the Conventional Method (or New Austrian Tunneling Method, NATM, or Sequential Excavation Method, SEM). The complete set of CAD tools in CESAR 2D and CESAR 3D allows unlimited types of sketches of the tunnel. The detailed sequence of ground excavation and the activation of the structural components of the final project (shotcrete, final lining and station infrastructure) can be modelled using specific and intuitive tools (excavation forces, long-term effects on the concrete…).

Design of a tunnel section with NATM

Vertical displacements induced by 3D tunnelling in urban area

CESAR (2D and 3D) is bundled with the required tools for modelling the complex sequence of the tunnel boring machine excavation.
  • Pressure at the front,
  • Controlled excavation forces for TBM shield conicity,
  • Variable pressure for the radial grouting,
  • Modelling of the lining segments with shell or volume elements.
All these tools help the tunnel engineer for the calculation of the settlement trough and the control of the volume loss.

Modelling of the TBM excavation process

Bi-tube tunnel (vertical displacements)

This method is declined in Conventional Bottom-Up Construction or in Top-Down Construction. CESAR 2D and CESAR 3D provides the tools and analysis components for the accurate modelling of the construction stages: retaining walls, struts, the various slabs and final backfill. With structural elements (beams and bars, shells) and adapted interface elements (joints), the tunnel engineer will analyse properly the soil-structure interaction.

Cut-and-cover construction of a metro station

Covered trench analysis

In poor ground conditions or in urban projects, the design of the tunnel requires the soils reinforcement in order to reduce the settlements. CESAR is equipped with a full set of elements (1D beams and bars) for the modelling of radial or front bolts, or pipe umbrellas. User can also use specific elements with friction law for a sharp modelling of the soil-reinforcement behaviour.

Bolted tunnel

Pipe umbrella and front reinforcement

Structural Expertise

CESAR is equipped with standard features for structural analysis: beams and shell elements, springs and other links, various types of loads, static and dynamic analysis algorithms….

CESAR proposes several constitutive models dedicated to the modelling of concrete (parabolic criterion, Willam-Warnke…) or masonry (homogenization of Zucchini…). In particular, damage models are integrated for the evaluation of durability of structures: Mazars, Faria, Oliver…

In addition, CESAR is suited to analyse the concrete behaviour in service or ultimate conditions. Specific modules, named TEXO & MEXO, have also been developed to enable modelling of the early age concrete behaviour. TEXO serves to compute both the temperature and degree of hydration fields, used to express the material’s state of hardening. These results are then input in the MEXO module in order to determine the displacement and stress fields, in the aim of predicting the risk of cracking at early age.

As such, CESAR can contribute to the understanding of the overall behaviour of a project and to the expertise of failure mechanisms.

IDEA StatiCa Connection

Any Geometry and Loading

Design steel connections of any type or complexity. Start from scratch or import connections directly from your CAD or FEA software. Apply simplified or complex loading, visualize the behavior, and generate connection sketches and detailed reports. Connections include:

  • Steel moment connections in steel structures, shear and axial connections, including seismic 
  • Beam to beam, beam to column, column to column, or column to base plate connections

The Worlds Largest Database of Steel Connections

Connection Library is a cloud application that provides you with 700,000+ ideas for your connection designs from all around the world.

Browse examples matching your project, find & download the best suitable model for your project in 4 steps! 

  1. Define geometry
  2. Browse the database
  3. Sign in or create account
  4. Explore & Download the model

Bolted and welded connections, anchoring
Stress&strain analysis of steel sections and plates
Stiffness analysis
Buckling analysis (local stability)
Capacity design (seismicity)
Fatigue analysis
Joint design resistance
Fire design
Horizontal tying resistance
Rolled sections
Welded sections
Thin-walled sections
General cross-section
Cut, stiffener, rib, stub
End plate, connecting plate, gusset plate
Angles
Anchoring
Steel-to-timber connections with gusset plate
Timber-to-timber connections with gusset plate
250+ editable templates
Pre-design
Connection browser – clever templates
Connection browser – company set in the cloud
Report
Bill of material
Drawings of plates
User-defined views and cuts

IDEA StatiCa Member

No More Estimates of Buckling Lengths and Connection Stiffness

Using the easy-to-use interactive application, perform advanced analysis of members modeled in 3D by shell elements with a detailed connection model with all stiffeners, bolts, openings, etc. Accurately simulate the behavior of your structures and members and use code-based geometrically and materially nonlinear analysis with imperfection (GMNIA) for final checks.

Rolled sections
Welded sections
Thin-walled sections
General cross-section
Cut
Stiffener
Stiffening member
Opening
Stress/strain analysis (MNA)
Stability analysis (LBA)
Geometrically nonlinear analysis with imperfections (GMNIA)
Fire resistance
Report

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Steel Design without Re-Entry

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%!

Use your FEA Model

Use your CAD Model

Share Connections

Links with FEA software – SAP 2000, ETABS, Robot Structural Analysis, STAAD PRO, RAM Structural System, STRAP, Tekla Structural Designer, Scia Engineer, RFEM/RSTAB. AXIS VM and others
Links with CAD software – Tekla Structures, Advance Steel, Revit
Automatically update models in IDEA StatiCa based on changes in the FEA/CAD application
IDEA StatiCa API, IDEA Open Model (IOM), support through Github

Features List

IDEA StatiCa Detail

Get your report in 3 simple steps
Create a model
  • Create any shape you need
  • Import from DXF
  • Add openings, hangers, supports
  • Model real reinforcement
  • Define loads and combinations
Run the calculation
  • Uses an advanced nonlinear FEA model called CSFM, enabling sophisticated code-based design
  • Concrete modeled in compression only
  • All rebars taken into account
  • Considers bonds between rebars and concrete
  • Tension stiffening and compression softening effects included
Get outputs
  • Go through the results
  • Create a detailed or simplified report
  • Export the model to DXF
  • Generate a bill of materials

Details: dapped ends, openings, hangings, frame joints
Walls, deep beams, corbels, diaphragms, pier caps, general detail
Geometry and reinforcement import from DXF file
Prestressing – pre-tensioned, post-tensioned detail
Imperial rounding
Realistic reinforcement layouts
Topology optimization
ULS checks – stress and strain in concrete, reinforcement, anchorage stress
SLS checks – crack width, crack directions, stress limitation, deflection
Limited stress check
Long-term losses
Support of regional code ANSI/AISC 360-22
Customized report including export to PDF, Word
2D drawings export
Bill of material

RCS Application

Get your report in 4 simple steps
Define cross-section
  • Use templates
  • Import shape from DXF
  • Create own template
Apply loads
  • Apply all internal forces
  • Import forces from Excel 
  • Load model from your FEA
Specify reinforcement
  • Use smart templates for common cross-sections
  • Edit or add any other rebar or tendon
  • Create your own templates
Get results
  • Quickly perform overall checks
  • Go through them
  • Generate the report
  • Export the reinforced section to DXF

Topology optimization
ULS checks – stress and strain in concrete, reinforcement, anchorage stress
SLS checks – crack width, crack directions, stress limitation, deflection
Limited stress check
Long-term losses
Support of regional code ANSI/AISC 360-22
ULS – Capacity N-M-M, Shear, Torsion, Interaction, Response N-M-M
SLS – Stress limitation, crack width
Flexural slenderness, detailing, stiffnesses, M-N-k diagram
Fire resistance
Customized report including export to PDF, Word

IDEA StatiCa Beam

Reinforced concrete beam
Pre-tensioned and post-tensioned prestressed beam (including combination)
Beam loaded in 3D
Continuous composite beam
Non-linear deflection
Bridge load rating
Tendon shape design, prestressing losses, prestressing effects
Construction stages, time dependent analysis (TDA)
Cross-section code-checks for ULS, SLS – export to the RCS application
Deflection check – short term, long term
Non-linear creep
Customized report including export to PDF, Word

IDEA StatiCa Member

General beams, columns, frames, tepered members
Linear analysis, Materialy non-linear analysis (MNA)
Linear buckling analysis (LBA)
Geometricaly and materialy non-linear analysis with imperfections (GMNIA)
Slender columns analysis
Thermal analysis of concrete members
Customized report including export to PDF, Word

BIM links

RFEM/RSTAB. AXIS VM, SAP 2000, Robot Structural Analysis, ETABS, STAAD PRO
Midas Civil/GEN, AXIS VM, SCIA Engineer
Advance Design, AXIS VM, RFEM/RSTAB, Robot Structural Analysis, SAP 2000

National codes and languages

EN 1992-1-1, EN 1992-2, EN 1992-3; national annexes CZ, SK, AT, BE, DE, UK, NL, PL, SG, SIA 262, and ACI
English, German, French, French, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Chinese, Czech, Slovak

Features

mkaPEB has a wide range of template types defined for portal frame and steel roof truss systems with variable cross-sections. All the features of the roof systems in these templates are parametric. If needed, they can be defined side by side and at different levels.

Snow Loads

Recognisıng the building structure and understanding the regional snow loads within the areas where snow accumulates on the roof, dependent on the load standards selected by the user.

It automatically loads varying loads according to the regions where the roof purlins are located.

When an engineer makes a change in the dimensions and shape of the structure, the most time-consuming load analysis is done in less than 1 second.

Wind Loads

Wind loads are the most complex of loads acting on the structure. The value of the load on the roof and facades varies regionally.

mkaPEB is familiar with the structure and knows the Eurocode, ASCE-07, IS-875 standards, automatically performs this complex calculation when the structure properties change.

The calculation which has been made by the software is automatically transferred to the roof and facade purlins and the main carrier system.

Crane Loads

For overhead crane loads, the overhead crane runway beam should be designed first. mkaPEB calculates this according to the rules given in AISC-Design Guide 7 and EN-1991-3 and automatically assigns loads to the columns.

Earthquake Loads

TDY-2018, AISC-341-16, Eurocode-8, EAK-2000 (Greece), IS 1893 Earthquake regulations are implemented in mkaPEB.

Tension-only member design for wall and roof bracings.

Elements on roofs and facades, especially central braces, buckle under compression loads due to their slenderness. mkaPEB can identify which element will buckle under which load and analyzes the system so that it is only supported by the tension-only members. Whilst making this analysis, it takes into account the thermal effects of Summer-Winter temperature differences and wind and earthquake loads coming from the facade. After solving each one separately, it superposes and controls the element strengths according to this last situation.

By doing this, mkaPEB was able to use tension-only rods in the braces.

Design of main members

Detailed design will be carried out according to various international codes.

Connections Design

mkaPEB steel truss automatically performs joint calculations for many joints on roofs and facades.

It resizes the connection plates according to the welding lengths calculated in the steel shears. Thus, the processing time is shortened and the possibility of error is eliminated.

If the selected steel structure design regulation is AISC-360, Connections is based on AISC-360-16 and design guides published by AISC.

If Eurocode 3 is selected, the strength of the connections is checked based on EN-1993-1-8.

The design of other combinations can be done after static calculations are made from the combination design page.

The properties of the combination can be changed parametrically.

The distances of the bolts to the edges and the limits of the welds are checked.

While calculating the strength of the connection, the changes can be followed on the 3D model.

2D technical drawing of the connection can also be taken.

Pad footing design

In our single-story warehouse-hangar type structure, the columns are under the effect of one-way bending. Especially when calculating foundations in structures with overhead cranes or under the influence of high wind force – Soil capacity It is thought that geotechnical controls should be done in addition to the reinforcement calculation.

The general bearing capacity formula recommended by Hansen Vesic in Eurocode -7 is used. Our aim with mkaPEB is to make all the elements of the steel structure, from the roof to the timeline, resistant to disaster situations.

Detailed design reports

Today, many structure analysis software gives their calculations within tables. And they show the accuracy of their calculations with verification solutions. This view was not adopted in mkaPEB. For this reason, the load calculations are given with detailed calculation reports for the design of steel structural elements and connections. The engineer can follow the reference, formulas, and process steps of the calculation.

We came to the first question asked by the engineer or the investor who prepared the proposal or made the analysis. What is the cost of this structure we calculated?

mkaPEB can extract all the material lists used in the building. The user can change the unit prices of the materials. Amended new unit prices are saved for future projects. Prices can be updated automatically according to the daily changing exchange rates. The ratio of scrap quantities for the offer can be changed from the table. On the table, the total used steel, m2 used steel, m2 unit cost, and the total cost can be examined.

mkaPEB prepares 3D solid model along with connections, which practically represent real-life structure.

DSTV-NC files for CNC machines

Today, CNC machines are widely used in the manufacture of steel structures. The biggest feature of 3D modeling software such as Tekla, Advance Steel, Bocad, SDS/2 is that it can produce DSTV-NC files. This issue was primarily targeted when mkaPEB was started to be developed

DRAWINGS – Footing plan

DRAWINGS – Anchor and base plate details

DRAWINGS – General arrangement

DRAWINGS – Assembly

DRAWINGS – Parts

Export model to Tekla with macros

Design Codes

EN-1991-1-3 (Snow Load + 16 EU-National Annexes)
EN-1991-1-4 (Wind Load + 16 EU-National Annexes)
EN-1991-1-5 Temperature Load
EN-1991-3: Crane Loads
EN-1992-1 (RC Column Design)
EN-1993-1-1 (Hot rolled Steel Design)
EN-1993-1-3 (Cold Formed Steel Design for purlins and girts)
EN-1993-1-8 (Steel Connection Design)
EN-1998-1 (Eearhquake Loads + 16 EU-National Annexes)
ASCE-07-16/22 (Wind Loads – Chapter27, Chapter28, Chapter30)
ASCE-07-16/22 (Snow Loads)
ASCE-07-16/22 (Eearthquake Loads)
AISC-Desgn Guide 7: Crane Loads
AISC-360-10/16 (Hot Rolled Steel Member)
AISC-341 (Seismic Design for Steel Members)
AISI-S100-16 (Coming soon: Cold Formed Steel Design for purlins and girts)
ACI-318-2014 (RC Column Design)
AISC-358 (Steel Connection Design)
IS-875-1-3 (Wind Loads)
IS-875-1-4 (Snow Loads)
IS-1893 (Eearhquake Loads)
ACI-318 (RC Column Design)
IS-800 ( Hot Rolled Steel Design)
EN-1993-1-3 (Cold Formed Steel Design for purlins and girts)
AISC-358 (Steel Connection Design)
TS–EN–1991–1–3 (Snow loads)
TS–EN–1991–1–4 (Wind loads)
TS–EN–1991–1–5 Thermal effects
AISC-Desgn Guide 7: Crane Loads
2018 Earthquake Code
2016 Steel Structures Code
2016 AISC-358 Steel Connection Calculations

Earthquake Codes

IS 1893 : 2016 Indian Standard: Criteria for Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures
GB50011: 2010 Chineese Standard: Code for Seismic Design of Buildings
SBC-301: 2016 Saudi Arabia: Seismic Provisions in the Saudi Building Code
DUBAI: 2013 United Arab Emirates: Seismic Design Code For Dubai, Dubai Municipality
BNBC: 2020 Seismic Provisions in the Bangladesh National Building Code
BCP: 2021 Seismic Provisions in the Building Code of Pakistan
NSCP: 2010 Seismic Provisions in the National Structural Code of the Philippines
SI-413: 2019 Israeli Standard: Design of Structures for Earthquake Resistance
TAIWAN:2019 Seismic Force Requirements for Buildings in Taiwan
MALAYSIA: EC-8 NA Malaysia National Annex to MS EN 1998
SINGAPORE: EC-8 NA Singapore National Annex to SS EN 1998
TCXDVN 375-2006 Vietnamese Earthquake Design Code (Based on EN-1998)
ASCE/SEI 7-16 USA Standard: Minimum Design Loads For Buildings And Other Structures
ANSI/AISC 341-16 USA Standard: Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings
NBCC-2020 Canada: Seismic Provisions in the National Building Code of Canada
INPRESS-CIRCOS-103 Argentinean Standards for Earthquake Resistant Constructions
NDBS: 2006 Bolivia: Norma Boliviana de Diseño Sísmico (2006)
NCH433: 2012 Chile: Chilean seismic code
NSR-10 Colombia: Reglamento colombiano de construcción sismo resistente
CRSC- 2010 Costa Rica: Código sísmico de Costa Rica 2010
MOC-2008 Mexico: Normas Técnicas Complementarias para Diseño por Sismo
ECP‑201: 2012 Egyptian Code of Practice for Calculation of Loads and Forces in Structures and Buildings (Based on EN-1998)
RPA-99: 2003 Algerian Earthquake Resistant Regulations
RPS-2011 Morocco: D’utilisation Du Reglement De Construction Parasismique
SANS-10163-4 South Africa: Seismic actions and general requirements for buildings (Based on EN-1998)

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