IDEA CONNECTION: Steel connection design Reinvented! A novel way to design and check all steel connections according to the code, in minutes.

IDEA StatiCa Connection can design all types of welded or bolted connections, base plates, footing and anchoring. It provides precise checks, results of strength, stiffness and buckling analysis of a steel joint. Bolts, welds and concrete blocks are checked according to EC/AISC. Templates for most-used connections are available as well as wide range of predefined hot rolled and sheet welded members.

IDEA Connection integration with FEA software:

Design your joint from scratch or build on geometry and loading imported from Robot, Revit, MIDAS Civil + Gen, STAAD.Pro, SAP 2000, Scia Engineer, RFEM, RSTAB,  AxisVM, ConSteel, and others, cutting design time even more.

IDEA Connection integration with CAD software:

Take advantage of integration into Tekla Structures and Advance Steel to provide workshops drawings and support manufacturing process.

IDEA CONNECTION: EC/AISC design of 3D steel joints – reinvented!

IDEA CONNECTION: EC/AISC design of footing and anchoring

IDEA CONNECTION: Buckling analysis

IDEA CONNECTION: Stiffness analysis

IDEA CONNECTION: Link between IDEA StatiCa and STAAD.Pro

IDEA CONNECTION: Link between IDEA StatiCa and SAP2000

IDEA CONNECTION: Link between IDEA StatiCa and RFEM

IDEA CONNECTION: Link between IDEA StatiCa and Tekla Structures

IDEA CONNECTION: Link between IDEA StatiCa and Revit Structure

IDEA CONNECTION: Link between IDEA StatiCa and Advance Steel

CSE is an expert system for the design of 3D steel Connections for Euro, AMERICAN, Indian and British standards

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 2000^TM, STRAP^TM, STAAD PRO^TM, MIDAS^TM, RISA3D^TM (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

Quikjoint: Comprehensive Steel connection design software to Eurocode, BS5950 and the Green books

Steel connection design for simple and moment connections in accordance with EN 1993-1-8 and the green books (P212, P207, P358 and P398).

The most comprehensive connections package available. Select a joint type, enter member sizes and loads. That’s all you have to do! Quikjoint’s connect wizard will produce a connection design to Eurocode 3 or BS5950 based on the fabricator experience stored in its unique knowledge base. Working with an automatically drawn fully dimensioned and annotated drawing, you can click any any item to change it. That’s if you don’t like the Wizard’s design. Links to Quikframe, Quikport and CAD make Quikjoint the No. 1 connections program.

Quikjoint: Product overview and simple connection design 

Quikjoint: Rigid moment connection

Quikjoint: Beam splice connection

Quikport: Multi-span portal frame design program to Eurocode and BS5950

Steel portal frame design in accordance with EN 1993-1-1 and BS5950. Now with extensions for Eurocode design with BS 5502-22 for class 2 for agricultural buildings.

Quikport is the most versatile portal frame design program on the market. In addition to elastic and elastic-plastic methods, it incorporates a unique optimising routine based on linear programming techniques. With no restrictions on frame geometry, Quikport will deliver the goods where other programs fail. Intelligent wizard technology for automatic design and checking. Includes second order analysis and automatic load generation including wind-loading. Designs to Eurocode-3 and BS5950.

Quikport: Introduction

Quikport: Input wizard

Quikport: Load cases and combinations wizard

Quikport: Design wizard

Quikport: Check wizard

Quikport: Conclusion

Quikport: Exporting data to Quikjoint for joint design

PowerConnect: Fast and Easy Steel Connections Design Software

PowerConnect is the perfect software to design the standard steel steel connections.  Design codes include Euro, American and Indian standards.

Connection types

Moment connections

• End plate, angles or welded
• Extras: haunches, stiffeners, …, …
• Optimal bolt positions
• M, V and N
• Rotational stiffness graph

 

Shear connections

• Shear end plate
• Fin or single plate
• Angles
• Optimal bolt positions
• V and N

 

Column bases

• I or rectangular cross-section
• Stiffeners and cramps
• Straight or bent anchors
• M, V and N
• Rotational stiffness graph

 

Tubular connections

• Type T, Y, DY, X, K, N, KT & DK
• Round, square, rectangle or I cross- sections
• M_i, M_o and N

Simple and fast connection with PowerConnect

PowerConnect: Column web – Beam moment connection 

PowerConnect: Beam – Beam shear connection

PowerConnect: Beam splice connection

PowerConnect: Column base plate connection

PowerConnect: Tubular RHS connection

PowerConnect: Tubular CHS connection