Input: Create structural finite element analysis models using CAD and BIM links, directly in the table or graphical views, or using your own scripts via the Application Programming Interface. Assign linear and nonlinear materials to a variety of element types, whether beams from catalogues, standard shapes, profiled slabs, or your own special requirements. Add static, dynamic, prestress, or thermal loads and analyse the effect.

Analysis and Design: GSA includes several solvers, including:

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• bridge load optimisation

• steel member and concrete slab design

• footfall analysis for human induced vibration

• matrix-based stiffness method for static and p-delta analyses

• dynamic relaxation and explicit solvers for nonlinear static and dynamic problems

• eigenvector solvers for modal vibration and buckling analyses

• dynamic response analyses for seismic response spectrum or time history, harmonic and periodic vibrations

• soil structure interaction for rafts and piled structures

• diagnostic analyses for resolving modelling problems

 

GSA will find the lightest, shallowest, cheapest, or most environmentally friendly steel beam section to carry the load, and work out the ideal quantity of reinforcement in your concrete slabs and walls.

Output: Output forces, moments, deformed geometry, and other results in graphical views, tables, and graphs. Export analysis models to LS DYNA, model changes to Revit, or text and numbers to Office documents.