Alternatives to GenFEA

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    Altair SimSolid
    By performing structural analyses on fully featured CAD assemblies within minutes, SimSolid is the game-changing simulation technology for designers, engineers, and analysts. It eliminates geometry preparation and meshing: the two most time-consuming, expertise-extensive and error-prone tasks performed in a conventional structural simulation. Multiple design scenarios can be simulated quickly under real-life conditions. Early CAD models, in any common format, can be used. SimSolid tolerance of imprecise geometry means that, unlike CAD-embedded simulation tools, there is no need to simplify complex geometries before analyzing designs. SimSolid supports all typical connections (bolt/nut, bonded, welds, rivets, sliding) and analysis of linear static, modal, thermal properties, along with more complex coupled, nonlinear, transient dynamic effects.
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    SolidFEA

    SolidFEA

    BIMWERX

    SolidFEA is our innovative solid finite element analysis tool, designed to make advanced structural engineering design both accessible and affordable. Powered by the Calculix engine, it offers detailed sub-model analysis with lower cost and hardware requirements than competitors like Abaqus. Ideal for complex engineering challenges, including steel connections and bridge engineering, SolidFEA democratizes specialty software with ease of use and IFC file format compatibility, complementing our GenFEA software for comprehensive structural analysis. SolidFEA marks a transformative step in structural engineering design, bridging the gap that has long existed due to the prohibitive costs, complex learning curves, and high-end computing requirements associated with solid finite element analysis (FEA). Designed for ease of use, it supports IFC file format imports, making it a seamless addition to engineering workflows.
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    Digimat

    Digimat

    e-Xstream engineering

    e-Xstream engineering develops and commercializes the Digimat suite of software, a state-of-the-art multi-scale material modeling technology that speeds up the development process for composite materials and structures. Digimat is a core technology of 10xICME Solution and is used to perform detailed analyses of materials on the microscopic level and to derive micromechanical material models suited for multi-scale coupling of the micro- and macroscopic level. Digimat material models provide the means to combine processing simulation with structural FEA. This means to move towards more predictive simulation by taking into account the influence of processing conditions on the performance of the finally produced part. As an efficient and predictive tool Digimat helps its users to design and manufacture innovative composite materials and parts with great efficiency in time and costs.
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    MSC Nastran

    MSC Nastran

    MSC Software

    MSC Nastran is a multidisciplinary structural analysis application used by engineers to perform static, dynamic, and thermal analysis across the linear and nonlinear domains, complemented with automated structural optimization and award winning embedded fatigue analysis technologies, all enabled by high performance computing. Engineers use MSC Nastran to ensure structural systems have the necessary strength, stiffness, and life to preclude failure (excess stresses, resonance, buckling, or detrimental deformations) that may compromise structural function and safety. MSC Nastran is also used to improve the economy and passenger comfort of structural designs. Optimize the performance of existing designs or develop unique product differentiators, leading to industry advantages over competitors. Remedy structural issues that may occur during a product’s service, reducing downtime and costs.
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    MIDAS FEA NX

    MIDAS FEA NX

    MIDAS FEA NX

    MIDAS FEA NX is a specialized finite element analysis (FEA) software built to support detailed structural and civil engineering simulations by providing a user-friendly, CAD-like modeling environment paired with advanced analysis capabilities. It allows engineers to import various 3D CAD formats directly and create high-quality finite element meshes using automatic and hybrid mesh generation techniques, reducing manual preparation time and improving model accuracy. It supports both linear and nonlinear analyses, including complex simulations with high-performance solvers and parallel computing to handle large, real-world projects efficiently. FEA NX excels at refined method analysis required by design codes for structures with complex geometry, enabling in-depth evaluation of stress, deformation, and behavior under diverse loading conditions. It integrates seamlessly with the broader MIDAS COLLECTION tools and other structural analysis programs.
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    Altair S-FRAME
    With S-FRAME, users can model, analyze, and design any structure regardless of its geometric complexity, material type, loading conditions, nonlinear effects, or design code requirements. S-FRAME’s automated framework generators build models quickly and import models with BIM and DXF import links, and users can maximize productivity with integrated concrete and steel design tools for design, optimization, code compliance, and report generation. With S-FRAME, users can quickly define structures using modeling automation to generate regular framework structures, and standard or custom trusses, and use clone tools to replicate all or part of the model. Additionally, users can save modeling time by importing existing BIM and DXF models. S-FRAME’s advanced meshing tools create the finite element mesh, giving users the power to generate detailed analysis results in their specific areas of interest. Users can explore those areas of interest by easily converting members to multi-shell models.
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    SPACE GASS

    SPACE GASS

    SPACE GASS

    SPACE GASS is a multi-purpose 3D analysis and design program for structural engineers. Its extensive range of features make it suitable for anything from beams, trusses and frames to buildings, towers, tanks, cable structures and bridges. Capabilities include a 64-bit multi-core solver, silky smooth 3D rendered graphics, plate finite elements, frame elements, cable elements, tension/compression-only elements, moving loads and links to many CAD and building management programs. Why SPACE GASS Save time, money, and get a safe and efficient design. Silky smooth graphical interface that lets you see your changes visually as you go. A fast sparse matrix solver that fully utilizes the parallel processing power of multi-core computers. A wide range of structural modeling tools, analysis options and design modules. Comprehensive video tutorials to walk you through some of the tricky stuff. Configurable for stand-alone or floating network systems.
    Starting Price: $600 per month
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    SOFiSTiK

    SOFiSTiK

    SOFiSTiK

    SOFiSTiK is a comprehensive suite of structural engineering software that delivers advanced tools for finite element analysis, design, detailing, CAD, and BIM workflows used to plan, analyze, and document buildings, bridges, tunnels, and other infrastructure projects. It supports end-to-end engineering workflows, from model creation and structural analysis to detailed design, reinforcement planning, and documentation, with modules tailored for 3D modeling, BIM integration with tools like Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD, and open interfaces such as IFC and SAF that enable seamless data exchange and collaboration. SOFiSTiK’s FEM packages provide powerful solvers for linear and nonlinear analysis, dynamic and static load cases, and industry-standard code checks. SOFiSTiK helps teams deliver reliable, coordinated designs and documentation throughout the lifecycle of construction projects.
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    STAAD

    STAAD

    Bentley

    You can design, analyze, and document structural projects, anywhere in the world, with any material using STAAD. It offers you a flexible solution to cover all your structural engineering needs from the foundation up. STAAD is a comprehensive structural finite element analysis and design application that allows users to perform analysis on any structure exposed to static, dynamic, wind, earthquake, thermal, and moving loads. STAAD comes in different variations so you can choose what’s best for you. STAAD is a popular structural analysis application known for analysis, diverse applications of use, interoperability, and time-saving capabilities. STAAD helps structural engineers perform 3D structural analysis and design for both steel and concrete structures. A physical model created in the structural design software can be transformed into an analytical model for structural analysis. Many design code standards are incorporated into STAAD.
    Starting Price: $3,000 per year
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    RFEM

    RFEM

    Dlubal Software

    The FEA program RFEM allows for quick and easy modeling, structural and dynamic calculation, as well as the design of models with member, plate, wall, folded plate, shell, and solid elements. Due to the modular software concept, you can connect the main program RFEM with the corresponding add‑ons in order to meet your individual requirements. The structural analysis program RFEM provides structural engineers with a 3D FEA program that meets all requirements in modern civil engineering. Efficient data input and intuitive handling facilitate the modeling of simple and complex structures. The structural analysis program RFEM is the basis of a modular software system. The basic program RFEM is used to define structures, materials, and loads for planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells, and members. The program also allows you to create combined structures as well as model solid and contact elements.
    Starting Price: €697.50 rent 1 month
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    GT STRUDL

    GT STRUDL

    Hexagon PPM

    GT STRUDL® is structural engineering software offering a complete design solution, including 3D CAD modeling and 64-bit high-performance computation solvers into all versions. GT STRUDL includes all the tools necessary to analyze a broad range of structural engineering and finite element analysis problems, including linear and nonlinear static and dynamic analysis, and can do so accurately in a fraction of the time of most other structural design software. Structural design software helps structural engineers create safe and effective designs, while managing the complexity of many different scenarios across a range of industries, including power, civil engineering, marine and infrastructure. Quality software includes many features, such as interoperability, structural analysis, database-driven design and quality assurance - all of which are included in GT STRUDL.
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    RIBTEC
    Integrated solutions are essential in times of tight schedules and scarce resources. Therefore, RIBTEC offers various synergies in calculation, design and construction. You benefit from a time-saving data flow in the sense of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the overall process of structural design. RIB's software solutions for structural engineers range from structural, building and ground engineering as well as finite element calculations to tunnel and bridge construction and the drawing of formwork and reinforcement plans. RIB has been developing pioneering solutions for structural design and FEM since 1961. The RIBTEC programs are successfully used by over 5,000 engineering offices, inspection engineers, construction companies and planning departments in the public and industrial sectors. With more than 100 structural analysis programs, RIBTEC comprehensively covers the practice of structural design.
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    SOLIDWORKS Simulation
    Subject your designs to real world conditions to raise product quality while reducing prototyping and physical testing costs. SOLIDWORKS® Simulation is an easy-to-use portfolio of structural analysis tools that use Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to predict a product’s real-world physical behavior by virtually testing CAD models. The portfolio provides linear, non-linear static and dynamic analysis capabilities. SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional enables you to optimize your design, determine product mechanical resistance, product durability, topology, natural frequencies, and test heat transfer and buckling instabilities. It can also perform sequential multi-physics simulations. SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium lets you efficiently evaluate your designs for nonlinear and dynamic response, dynamic loading, and composite materials. SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium includes three advanced studies: Non-Linear Static, Non-Linear Dynamic, and Linear Dynamics.
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    SwiftComp

    SwiftComp

    AnalySwift

    SwiftComp is a revolutionary multiscale, multiphysics composite simulation code that quickly and easily delivers the accuracy of 3D FEA at the efficiency of simple engineering models. In doing so, SwiftComp reduces barriers for engineers by enabling them to model composites as easily as metals using conventional structural elements in their FEA codes (without losing accuracy while capturing all the microstructural details). SwiftComp provides unified modeling for 1D (beams), 2D (plates/shells), or 3D structures, calculating all the effective properties. Use SwiftComp either independently for virtual testing of composites or as a plug-in to power your conventional structural tools with high-fidelity composites modeling. SwiftComp can compute the best structural model for use in macroscopic structural analysis, as well as perform dehomogenization to compute the pointwise stresses in the microstructure. SwiftComp directly interfaces with ABAQUS, ANSYS.
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    AxisVM

    AxisVM

    InterCAD

    The primary applications of AxisVM are in the design of buildings, and industrial and geotechnical structures. Due to its powerful finite element solver and practical modeling tools, it has also been used in bridge design, and in the design of composite structures, machines, and vehicles. Besides the basic configurations, optional design modules are available for structures made of reinforced concrete, steel, timber, and masonry members and connections. In addition, thanks to the special elements and analysis capabilities, users have successfully applied AxisVM to the design of innovative and custom structures. Reports can be created based on tables, drawings, and detailed design calculations with additional headings and text lines. Reports are auto-updating, i.e. generated based on the most current model data and results.
    Starting Price: $500 one-time payment
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    Ansys Mechanical
    Ansys Mechanical is a best-in-class finite element solver with structural, thermal, acoustics, transient and nonlinear capabilities to improve your modeling. Ansys Mechanical enables you to solve complex structural engineering problems and make better, faster design decisions. With the finite element analysis (FEA) solvers available in the suite, you can customize and automate solutions for your structural mechanics problems and parameterize them to analyze multiple design scenarios. Ansys Mechanical is a dynamic tool that has a complete range of analysis tools. Ansys Mechanical offers a dynamic environment with a complete range of analysis tools, from preparing geometry for analysis to connecting additional physics for even greater fidelity. The intuitive and customizable user interface enables engineers of all levels to get answers fast and with confidence. Ansys Mechanical creates an integrated platform that uses finite element analysis (FEA) for structural analysis.
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    Fatigue Essentials
    Fatigue Essentials is a desktop application used to efficiently conduct structural fatigue analysis. Fatigue Essentials provides a user-friendly tool for conducting stress-life analysis either using classical stress calculations or linked with FEMAP™ and using the finite element generated stresses. The program is structured to guide the user through the analysis by following a tree structure. General analysis options are selected following loads, materials, and spectrum branches. Within each branch are options for analysis variations or input methods. Analysis results are available on-screen to paste into a report and/or as a damage contour plot in FEMAP. Covers most engineering requirements. Classic mode with user input stresses. Professional mode (FEMAP-linked) with the ability to read nodal stresses and push back results in a damage contour plot. Option for either interactive input or file input for stresses and cycles.
    Starting Price: $695 one-time payment
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    SDC Verifier

    SDC Verifier

    SDC Engineering B.V.

    SDC Verifier is an all-in-one software solution for structural design, FEA analysis, and verification according to design codes and standards. SDC Verifier can be used independently or as an extension to Ansys Mechanical, Femap, and Simcenter 3D.
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    Simcenter Nastran
    Simcenter Nastran is a premier finite element method (FEM) solver for computational performance, accuracy, reliability and scalability. Simcenter Nastran includes powerful solutions for linear and nonlinear structural analysis, structural dynamics, acoustics, rotor dynamics, aeroelasticity, thermal analysis, and optimization. The advantage to having all these solutions available in a single solver is that input/output file formats are the same for all solution types, which greatly simplifies modeling processes. Available as a standalone enterprise solver or as an integrated solver in Simcenter 3D, Simcenter Nastran helps manufacturers as well as engineering suppliers in aerospace, automotive, electronics, heavy machinery, medical device, and other industries for their critical engineering computing needs so they can produce safe, reliable and optimized designs within ever shorter design cycles.
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    VisualAnalysis

    VisualAnalysis

    Integrated Engineering Software

    Thousands of professionals leverage VisualAnalysis (VA) to meet deadlines. Customers say it is "a great value" and "so easy to learn". You need practical tools; easy on your budget. 3D models of complete buildings, tanks, towers, etc. Static and dynamic response analysis. Design code checks for steel, wood, concrete, cold-formed steel, and aluminum. Complete analysis and design features including automatic plate meshing, command window, nonlinear elements, and dynamic time history analysis. 3D static and dynamic FEA for civil, mechanical, aerospace or any other structural analysis. Optional support of building code load combinations. Easily apply loads. Distribute area loads to members. Gravity and lateral loading in the same project. Create frame, truss, or FEA models of just about any structure. Sketch, generate, and import CAD, or BIM (Revit). Fast static, P-delta, AISC Direct, dynamic, and nonlinear. Proven and validated results.
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    FloCAD

    FloCAD

    C&R Technologies

    FloCAD® is a fluid dynamics software add-on module for Thermal Desktop®, together they provide a complete thermohydraulic software tool for fully integrated fluid flow and heat transfer analysis. With FloCAD, the mechanics of building fluid flow models is very similar to that of building thermal models, with many of the commands applicable to both types of models. FloCAD models can be free-form (non-geometric), sketchpad style flow network modeling for abstraction and simplification, or they can be geometry-based by including objects such as pipe centerlines and cross-sections, complexly shaped vessels, or convection to finite difference of finite element representations of thermal structures. As a generalized pipe flow software tool, FloCAD captures the pressure drops in a piping network due to bends, valves, tees, changes in flow area, etc.
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    GRAITEC Advance Design
    Advance Design is a mature and easy to use FEM Structural Analysis solution dedicated to structural engineers operating in a BIM environment. It fully designs any type of structure, with any kind of loads, mixing concrete, timber and steel members. It includes major code standards (Eurocodes / North American). Advance Design provides an outstanding BIM experience. It enables intelligent model-based workflows for Engineers and construction professionals. Advance Design acts as a BIM platform and guarantees the continuity of geometric and analytical data through model transfers all along the design cycle. Analysis results are also stored in the Digital Model and are part of the BIM process. For instance, they can be used to start a rebar design or a steel connection process directly from Revit. These options open new disruptive opportunities. Powerful, Easy to use and operate, fully compliant with Revit®. Supported by a strong team of experts. Flexible licensing model.
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    Oasys Software

    Oasys Software

    Oasys Software

    Oasys software’s innovative solutions are characterized by attractive, intuitive interfaces and the speed and power with which they allow users to test ideas quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling engineers to define and solve the most complex of design problems accurately, with complete confidence in their compliance with international standards and compatibility with other leading packages. Oasys software tools are offered individually or as discounted bundles of related tools. Oasys Software offers a range of analysis and design solutions for building, bridges, geotechnical engineering, and pedestrian movement. Providing architects, engineers, constructors, students, consultants, planners, and many other disciplines with comprehensive engineering solutions. From the most basic low-rise structure to the most complex high-rise or specialist structure with challenging loading conditions, Oasys has the tools that you need to complete a rigorous analysis and design.
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    HyperWorks

    HyperWorks

    Altair Engineering

    HyperWorks provides easy-to-learn, effective workflows that leverage domain knowledge and increase team productivity, enabling the efficient development of today’s increasingly complex and connected products. The new HyperWorks experience was created to free engineers to move from physics to physics, domain to domain, and even create reports without ever leaving their model. Create, explore and optimize designs within HyperWorks to produce robust designs that accurately model structures, mechanisms, fluids, electromagnetics, electrical, embedded software, systems design, and manufacturing processes. The solution-specific workflows enhance a growing number of engineering processes including fatigue analysis, concept design optimization, CFD modeling, and design exploration. Each provides a meticulously designed and intuitive user interface, differentiated for each user profile while remaining consistent and easy to learn.
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    PRODDIA®AERO

    PRODDIA®AERO

    Stratosphere

    PRODDIA®AERO is an integrated Structural Health Management system that provides key information on the structural condition of aircraft to O&M decision-makers. With in-service visibility of structural integrity at fleet, system and component levels, it increases availability and reduces O&M costs. PRODDIA®AERO is the most advanced platform for Structural Health Monitoring, Operational Loads Monitoring, and Damage Tolerance Analysis of in-service aircraft. PRODDIA®AERO is a comprehensive, beyond state of art health management system for fixed-wing, helicopter, or UAV fleets. PRODDIA®AERO effectively combines model and experimental data from your aircraft through patented technology and uses the appropriate number of sensors to achieve an accurate diagnosis and prognosis of its structural status with an extremely high degree of reliability. Using standard hardware, PRODDIA®AERO works with a wide spectrum of sensor technologies and data acquisition systems.
    Starting Price: $50 one-time payment
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    CAEmate

    CAEmate

    CAEmate

    WeStatiX SHM combines true simulation-based Digital Twins with Artificial Intelligence into a revolutionary platform for infrastructure monitoring. It can be applied to any kind of structure, from bridges to tunnels, and even to slopes and rock walls, to provide accurate insight into the current and future behavior of the monitored object. WeStatiX can be used to improve structure safety, optimize monitoring costs, and reduce the environmental impact of the build world. All in your favorite browser. With WeStatiX|SHM, you can create custom digital twins for real-time monitoring of existing structures in the cloud. This is possible for many kinds of infrastructure, such as bridges, rock walls, slopes, dams, buildings, and much more! The system is based on the combination of several innovative digital technologies, and thanks to artificial intelligence algorithms it is a powerful tool for the inspection and maintenance of any monitored object.
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    MasterSeries

    MasterSeries

    MasterSeries

    MasterSeries is the UK's leading range of integrated structural analysis, design, drafting, and detailing software with over 10,000 users worldwide. From the industry-leading multi-material BIM-enabled modeling and design environment to a collection of powerful stand-alone modules, MasterSeries features the most extensive range of technically advanced structural engineering software you'll find under one roof. For you, this means you get more done in one package, avoiding the need to swap between different incompatible software and enter the same data multiple times. No two businesses are the same, so why should their software be? That's why the MasterSeries product range is modular in nature, providing an extremely flexible and scalable software solution. In this way you aren't forced to buy a costly single large product, perhaps with many features you don't need. You simply combine the modules you need to create the ideal software solution to meet the demands of your business.
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    Abaqus

    Abaqus

    Dassault Systèmes

    Today, product simulation is often being performed by engineering groups using niche simulation tools from different vendors to simulate various design attributes. The use of multiple vendor software products creates inefficiencies and increases costs. SIMULIA delivers a scalable suite of unified analysis products that allow all users, regardless of their simulation expertise or domain focus, to collaborate and seamlessly share simulation data and approved methods without loss of information fidelity. The Abaqus Unified FEA product suite offers powerful and complete solutions for both routine and sophisticated engineering problems covering a vast spectrum of industrial applications. In the automotive industry engineering work groups are able to consider full vehicle loads, dynamic vibration, multibody systems, impact/crash, nonlinear static, thermal coupling, and acoustic-structural coupling using a common model data structure and integrated solver technology.
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    OpenBridge Designer

    OpenBridge Designer

    Bentley Systems

    Better bridges beginning to end. OpenBridge Designer features advanced interoperability, allowing access to Bentley’s civil application data, as well as a seamless connection to Bentley’s bridge design and analysis applications. Project team members can take the conceptual model from OpenBridge Modeler into the design stage and move through the workflow by performing analysis and design including evaluation of construction work stages using Bentley’s LEAP applications and RM Bridge, OpenRoads Designer, ProStructures, ProjectWise, and other applications. With all these capabilities in one application, you’ll accelerate performance, produce intelligent models through intuitive capabilities for 3D parametric bridge modeling, and improve project deliverables with intelligent data management and automated drawing production that revolutionizes the bridge delivery process. OpenBridge Modeler is a 3D parametric modeling software for bridges.
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    LIRA-SAPR

    LIRA-SAPR

    LIRALAND Group

    LIRA-SAPR is comprehensive software package that benefits from BIM technology. The software is intended for analysis and design of building and mechanical engineering structures of different purposes. - Static (forces and displacements) and dynamic analyses - Selection and check for sections of steel and/or reinforced concrete (RC) structures - Preliminary drawings of steel structures as well as separate RC elements
    Starting Price: €280/month
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    ProtaStructure

    ProtaStructure

    Prota Software

    ProtaStructure is an innovative structural BIM solution for structural engineers to model, analyze and design buildings quickly and accurately. From one central model easily compare different schemes and automate your steel and concrete design, reducing design time and increasing project profitability. Use advanced integrated features including grouped member design, 3D FE Analysis, staged construction and seismic design, foundations and punching shear checks to quickly produce results. Handle changes with ease and seamlessly coordinate projects with architects, owners and other stakeholders with intelligent BIM integration. Save time and increase project profits with ProtaStructure.
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    Tekla Structural Designer
    Seamlessly combine design & analysis into one easy and efficient single model-based process. Our simple, integrated design & analysis software enables engineers to deliver safe, effective, and rationalized design more quickly, regardless of structural material. Try it for yourself and revolutionize the way you work today! Tekla Structural Designer is software that gives engineers the power to analyze and design buildings efficiently and profitably. Fully automated and packed with many unique features for optimized concrete and steel design, Tekla Structural Designer helps engineering businesses to win more work and maximize profits. From the quick comparison of alternative design schemes through to cost-effective change management and seamless BIM collaboration, Tekla Structural Designer can transform your business. Achieve faster design times and maximize profitability. Because you are creating a single model with a single data set, BIM integration is smooth and effective.
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    COMSOL Multiphysics
    Simulate real-world designs, devices, and processes with multiphysics software from COMSOL. General-purpose simulation software based on advanced numerical methods. Fully coupled multiphysics and single-physics modeling capabilities. Complete modeling workflow, from geometry to postprocessing. User-friendly tools for building and deploying simulation apps. The COMSOL Multiphysics® software brings a user interface and experience that is always the same, regardless of engineering application and physics phenomena. Add-on modules provide specialized functionality for electromagnetics, structural mechanics, acoustics, fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical engineering. Choose from a list of LiveLink™ products to interface directly with CAD and other third-party software. Deploy simulation applications with COMSOL Compiler™ and COMSOL Server™. Create physics-based models and simulation applications with this software platform.
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    RadCAD

    RadCAD

    C&R Technologies

    An ultra-fast, oct-tree accelerated Monte-Carlo ray tracing algorithm is used by RadCAD to compute radiation exchange factors and view factors. Innovations by C&R Technologies to the ray tracing process have resulted in an extremely efficient thermal radiation software tool. Using finite difference "conics" (simple geometric objects) or curved finite elements from TD Direct®, RadCAD can accurately model diffuse or specular reflections and transmissive surfaces regardless of node density. The needs of the thermal solution dictate the number of nodes, not the accuracy requirements of the radiation. RadCAD makes use of user-defined databases of optical properties. Each surface coating defines absorptivity, transmissivity, and reflectivity along with specularity in both the solar and infrared wavelength regimes. These properties can be defined versus incident angle or even with wavelength dependence.
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    PLAXIS 2D

    PLAXIS 2D

    Bentley Systems

    Every project is challenging, but the geotechnical analysis doesn’t have to be. PLAXIS 2D provides the power of fast computations. Perform advanced finite element or limit equilibrium analysis of soil and rock deformation and stability, as well as soil structure interaction, groundwater, and heat flow. PLAXIS 2D is a powerful and user-friendly finite-element (FE) software for 2D analysis of deformation and stability in geotechnical engineering and rock mechanics. PLAXIS is used worldwide by top engineering companies and institutions in the civil and geotechnical engineering industry. PLAXIS 2D is ideal for a range of applications from excavations, embankments, and foundations to tunneling, mining, oil and gas, and reservoir geomechanics. PLAXIS 2D includes all the essentials to perform deformation and safety analysis for soil and rock that do not require the consideration of creep, steady state groundwater or thermal flow, consolidation analysis, or any time-dependent effects.
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    GPT GES
    Block H125 mainly develops Qingshankou oil layer. The top structure of the Qing 1st sublayer is a broken nose structure blocked by reverse normal faults. The reservoir type is a layered lithological structure reservoir. The current injection-production scale is an encryption five-point well pattern, including 27 injection wells and 38 production wells. The main target layers in the north of Block H125 are delta front deposits. The main microfacies types of each sublayer are bars. Reservoir geological modeling technology is mainly divided into two major workflows structural modeling and property modeling. The property modeling includes sedimentary facies modeling, porosity modeling, permeability modeling, oil saturation modeling, and NTG modeling. In geological modeling, the first step is to use the well header and well picks to establish a structural model and to set the increment in I and J direction to control the grid quality and well pattern.
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    Scia Engineer
    SCIA Engineer is an integrated, multi-material structural analysis software and design tool for all kinds of structures. Its wide range of functionality makes it the ideal partner for the design of office buildings, industrial plants, bridges or any other project, all within the same easy-to-use environment. Powerful CAD-like modeling, advanced types of calculation, code-compliant multi-material design and customizable reports. Typical situations can be automated with built-in or user-defined parametric templates for various geometries and powerful load generation tools. SCIA Engineer provides the most comprehensive implementation of Eurocodes, including National Annexes, U.S. codes and other international standards. Seamless exchange of models with other project stakeholders, through the powerful bi-directional links with Allplan, Revit and Tekla Structures, Open BIM's IFC or third-party plug-ins.
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    MIDAS CIVIL NX
    MIDAS CIVIL NX is a next-generation analysis and design program for bridges and civil engineering structures, offering powerful simulation tools and an enhanced user experience. It supports complex structural analysis including nonlinear behavior, moving loads, staged construction, seismic events, and advanced boundary conditions. The platform introduces automation through APIs, allowing engineers to generate models directly from Excel sheets and streamline repetitive tasks. Its redesigned interface provides an intuitive workspace that helps users navigate features more efficiently and maintain smooth workflows. CIVIL NX integrates seamlessly with the broader MIDAS collection, enabling data exchange across programs and supporting end-to-end civil engineering design processes. Backed by global adoption and continuous innovation, MIDAS CIVIL NX empowers engineering teams to achieve accurate, efficient, and reliable structural designs.
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    Simright

    Simright

    Simright

    Simright Simulator can import a CAD model, setup and execute the structural analysis in web browser. It is designed to be very easy to use. Even you have no experience about CAE analysis, you can complete a simulation quickly. Simright Simulator can help you solve complex structural problem in many different industries online. The CAE technology can greatly reduce costs of physical experiments and help you to make wiser decisions.
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    Skanect

    Skanect

    Skanect

    With Skanect, capturing a full color 3D model of an object, a person or a room has never been so easy and affordable. Skanect transforms your Structure Sensor or Structure Core depth sensor into a low-cost 3D scanner able to create 3D meshes out of real scenes in a few minutes. Enter the world of 3D scanning now! Unlike existing technologies, Skanect can acquire dense 3D information about a scene at up to 30 frames per second. Just move around your Structure Sensor or Structure Core to capture a full set of viewpoints, and you will get a 3D mesh in real time. Skanect makes it easy to 3D scan different kinds of scenes by providing a set of predefined scenarios, suitable for most use cases. You can then share your models online in a few clicks, there’s no need to be a trained professional to start 3D scanning! Skanect leverages consumer-grade 3D cameras like the Structure Sensor and Structure Core, limiting the hardware cost to a fraction of previous 3D scanning solutions.
    Starting Price: $129 one-time payment
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    CAE Fidesys

    CAE Fidesys

    CAE Fidesys

    Powerful and flexible preprocessor for high quality finite element meshes. Attractive cost - an order of magnitude lower than foreign counterparts. Strength calculations under static and dynamic loading. Calculation of natural frequencies and vibration modes. Calculation of critical loads and buckling modes. 2D and 3D calculations for volumetric, thin-walled and bar structures. Elastoplastic deformation according to the mises and drucker-prager models. Strength calculations for large displacements. Calculation of thermal conditions, heat loss, temperature deformations of parts and structures. Strength calculations for highly elastic materials.
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    RSECTION

    RSECTION

    Dlubal Software

    Do you often spend too long calculating cross-sections? Dlubal Software and the RSECTION stand-alone program facilitate your work by determining section properties of various cross-sections and performing a subsequent stress analysis. With the stand-alone program RSECTION, Dlubal Software provides you with a time-saving solution for the calculation of thin-walled and massive cross-sections. The program determines the section properties and performs a stress analysis. The seamless integration with the FEA software RFEM and the structural frame & truss analysis software RSTAB allows for efficient cooperation. RSECTION cross-sections are available in the RFEM and RSTAB libraries, and you can easily import the internal forces in the programs.
    Starting Price: €292.50 rent 1 month
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    AutoPIPE

    AutoPIPE

    Bentley

    AutoPIPE provides you with a comprehensive and advanced software tool specializing in pipe stress analysis. Increase your productivity and improve quality control with an intuitive modeling environment and advanced analysis capabilities. Ensure efficient workflows between pipe stress engineers, structural engineers, and CAD designers through interoperability with leading plant design applications. AutoPIPE includes special features for advanced buried pipeline analysis, operational (hot) clash detection, wave loading, fluid transients, and FRP/GRP or plastic pipe, as well as time-saving integration with other Bentley and third-party applications such as OpenPlant, AutoPLANT, PlantSpace, Hexagon PDS and SmartPlant, Autodesk Plant 3D, and Aveva E3D Design. AutoPIPE automatically determines the optimal pipe support locations to satisfy your design requirements with the most cost-effective solution, without sacrificing quality or safety.
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    fe-safe

    fe-safe

    Dassault Systèmes

    Material usage optimization has become the cornerstone of the transformation that the industry is currently experiencing. Manufacturers relentlessly pursue lightweight and robust components to deliver cost-efficient production with lower warranties, minimal recall costs, and accelerated timelines. Advanced finite element analysis is a staple in design stress calculations. Many companies still rely on manual stress point selection for spreadsheet analysis to conduct fatigue analysis. This approach is time-consuming and unreliable because it increases the risk of overlooking critical failure locations. fe-safe is the technical leader in fatigue analysis software for finite element models. fe-safe has set the benchmark for fatigue analysis software since the early 1990s in close collaboration with the industry. The fe-safe software suite is a world-leading technology for durability analysis from FEA. It directly interfaces with all major FEA suites.
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    Causeway Professional Design Suite
    Transform your infrastructure design productivity with our end-to-end solution enabling the production of fast, accurate and fully-integrated design models. Causeway’s Infrastructure Design solution is used extensively by civil and structural engineers, incorporating modules for volumetric, alignment design, drainage design and vehicle path analysis, as well as functionality for creating road markings and designing traffic signs. Offering intelligent 3D modelling capabilities and powerful integration functionality, the solution delivers all of the benefits of Building Information Modelling (BIM) to the civil engineer. Causeway PDS delivers powerful 3D design tools to aid the design engineer in producing the best designs possible. Offering dedicated auto-design and auto-updating features, the solution is designed specifically to save engineers' time, to reduce risk, and to ensure value is engineered into every design.
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    nCode DesignLife
    nCode DesignLife is an up-front design tool that identifies critical locations and calculates realistic fatigue lives from leading finite element (FE) results for both metals and composites. Design engineers can go beyond performing simplified stress analysis and avoid under- or over-designing products by simulating actual loading conditions to avoid costly design changes. Product options containing functions for virtual shaker testing, fatigue of welds, vibration fatigue, crack growth detection, fatigue of composites, thermo-mechanical fatigue analysis. Advanced technology for multiaxial, welds, short-fibre composite, vibration, crack growth, thermo-mechanical fatigue. Intuitive, graphical interface for performing fatigue analysis from leading FEA results data, including ANSYS, Nastran, Abaqus, Altair OptiStruct, LS-Dyna and others. Multi-threaded and distributed processing capabilities for processing large finite element models and complete usage schedules.
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    ADAPT-Builder
    Easily create complex concrete geometry including single levels, ramps, and multi-story concrete structures using robust modeling tools as well as import from CAD and BIM software. Efficiently analyze slabs or entire structures for the combined effects of gravity, lateral, and vibration loading, utilizing true 3D finite element analysis, straightforward load takedown, and realistic slab alignment. Whether you’re investigating an existing reinforced concrete slab or designing a multi-story post-tensioned building, ADAPT-Builder allows you to control all aspects of design including cracking, long-term deflections, and punching shear, ensuring results are accurate and complete. Whatever your concrete design needs are, there is ADAPT software for you. Compare packages and get started. ADAPT-Builder is the 3D modeling, analysis, and design platform for ADAPT-Floor Pro, Edge, MAT, and SOG, while Modeler can be used together with ADAPT-PT and RC.
    Starting Price: $3,745 per year
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    RISA-3D
    Our user interface was created to be as easy to use as possible. Whether you’re creating geometry graphically in multiple views using advanced modeling tools or using spreadsheets to input data directly, RISA-3D has you covered. RISA-3D’s analysis and design features allow you to rapidly design structures of all types using a wide range of materials. Design buildings, bridges, tanks, culverts, and everything in between. Create reports with both graphical and numerical results including robust detailed output, giving you and your colleagues full confidence in your design. The latest user interface of RISA-3D was created with a structural engineers' workflow in mind. The familiar left-to-right, tab-by-tab ribbon approach, makes it effortless to progress through a model from conception to final design optimization by simply following the icon sequencing. Additionally, users have the ability to customize the interface so that their most used tools are available at all times.
    Starting Price: $1,970 per year
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    ASTRA Pro

    ASTRA Pro

    Techsoft Engineering Services

    ASTRA Pro has optional structural analysis and design applications for RCC framed multi storied buildings and RCC tunnel lining with steel ribs and RCC portal based on rock quality designation (RQD) and rock mass rating (RMR), RCC & PSC jetty design. ASTRA Pro gives the complete analysis and design details in step wise format and complete set of sample drawings in editable CAD format. In the demo version the default input data can not be changed and drawings are for viewing only. The Reports and drawings are complete as a set for each design modules. Detail estimation for BoQ, item rates & cost are also available for girder type bridges, box type bridges/culverts and composite bridges. ASTRA Pro is the software for Engineering Design of RCC 'T' Girder Bridges, Composite Bridges with Steel Plate/Box Girder and RCC Deck Slab with single and Multi-Span in Straight or Curve layout, PSC 'I' Girder Bridges, PSC Box Girder Bridges, Continuous PSC Box Girder Bridges, Steel Truss Bridges, etc.
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    Akselos Cloud
    The Akselos Cloud platform delivers a complete Digital Twin framework via the cloud. It provides an end-to-end solution covering automated updates of asset loads and condition, through to clear dashboards showing current asset integrity. No more limitations, Akselos technology enables you to model the most complex problems in structures of any size, and in full detail. Our approach runs structural simulations a 1000x faster than legacy software. Design and operational workflows that used to take months can now be done in hours. Any relevant data, such as sensors and process parameters, can be directly connected to our models, allowing you to optimize your asset even further. All of our simulations will validate results against the applicable engineering code/standards, so that you can feel confident you asset is safe and meets all the relevant requirements.