C.S.E. (CONNECTIONS STUDY ENVIRONMENT) is an expert program that deals with the design of standard and nonstandard 2D & 3D steel connections. The joints can be created inside the program using CAD environment or can be imported from FEA & CAD programs.
CSE is fruit of a research begun in 1999. It is the most comprehensive solution to the problem of steel joints and steel connections design, calculation, verification and checking.
Presently C.S.E. can work with Sargon or Sap 2000TM, STRAPTM, STAAD PROTM, MIDASTM, RISA3DTM (the fem programs it presently is interfaced with), or as a stand alone tool, and it will surely be interfaced with more software packages, worldwide available (probably also via IFC file format).
CSE Presentation: Steel Connections design & check
CSE Project: Overview
CSE: Importing FEM model to CSE
CSE Tour: BEAM – BEAM Connection
CSE Tour: BEAM-COLUMN Connection
CSE: Splice Joint design
CSE Tour: Base plate design
CSE Tour: Bracing node design
“Scribble” Steel connections by CSE
CSE: FEM modelling of connections
CSE: Linear vs Nonlinear analysis