RISA-3D 8.10 is so popular among structural engineers for many reasons but one in particular stands out: ease of use. We designed our premier product with the daily use of structural engineering professionals in mind.
User friendliness combined with advanced analysis capabilities make this industry standard software a very powerful tool for the analysis and optimization of all types of structures and all common structural materials, including steel, concrete and wood. It\’s a tool no structural engineer should be without!
Analysis Features
•Accelerated true sparse solver for static analysis
•Flexible modeling of P-Delta effects
•Accelerated Sparse Lanzcos dynamics solver, very fast and robust
•Multiple simultaneous dynamic and response spectra analysis using Gupta, CQC or SRSS with automatic calc of scaling factors
•Automatic inclusion of mass offset (5% or user defined) for dynamics
•Automatic generation of wind and seismic forces (IBC 2000/2003/2006)
•True physical member modeling (members are aware of interior joints)
•State-of-the-art plate/shell elements with plane stress only option
•State-of-the-art 8 node solid elements with automatic meshing
•High end mesh generation — draw a polygon with any number of sides to create a mesh of well formed quadrilateral (NO triangular) elements.
•Accurate analysis of tapered wide flanges
•Automatic rigid diaphragm modeling with detachable joints
•Area loads with one-way or two-way distributions with optional “blow through” distribution for loading open structures
•Plate thermal loads
•Simultaneous moving loads, AASHTO/custom for bridges, cranes…
•Torsional warping calculations for stiffness, stress and design
•Member end releases, rigid end offsets, top of member offsets
•Joint master-slave assignments
•Enforced joint displacements
•One Way members, for tension only bracing, slipping, etc.
•One Way springs, for modeling soils and other effects
•Euler members: Compression up to buckling load, then turn off
•Stress calculations on any arbitrary shape
•Inactivate members, plates, solids and diaphragms without deleting them
•Story drift calculations provide relative drift and ratio to height
•Automatic self-weight calculations for members, plates and solids
Design Features
•Designs/optimizes concrete, hot rolled & cold formed steel, masonry and wood
•Concrete Design Codes: ACI 1999/2002/2005, BS 8110-97, CSA A23.3-94, IS456:2000,EC 2-1992, NZS3101-1995, AS 3600-2001, NTC-DF2004
•Maintains consistent bar sizes through adjacent spans
•Program selected or user defined rebar layouts for flexure and shear
•Concrete beam detailing (Rectangular, T and L).
•Concrete column interaction diagrams.
•Masonry Design Codes: MSJC 1999/2002/05, UBC 97 (ASD & Strength)
•Masonry wall design for in-plane, out-of-plane & bearing loads (with or without openings)
•Steel Design Codes: AISC ASD 9th, LRFD 2nd & 3rd, HSS Specification, CAN/CSA-S16.1-1994 & 2004, BS 5950-1-2000, IS 800-1984, Euro 3-1993, NZS 3404-1:1997, AS 4100-1998 including local shape databases.
•AISC 13th Edition using the Direct Analysis Method.
•AISI 1999/2001, CSA S136-01 cold formed steel design
•NDS 91/97/2001/2005 wood design, Glulams, SCL, multi-ply, full sawn
•Automatic spectra generation for UBC 1997, IBC 2000/2003/2006
•Extensive user controlled generation of load combinations: ASCE, UBC, IBC, BOCA, SBC, ACI, International
•Intelligent unbraced length calculations for physical members
•Automatic approximation of K factors
•Tapered wide flange design with either ASD or LRFD codes
•Optimization of member sizes for all materials and all design codes
•Steel Shapes: AISC, HSS, CAN, ARBED & numerous foreign databases
•Light Gage Shapes: AISI, SSMA, Dale/Incor, Dietrich, MarinoWARE
•Wood Shapes: Complete NDS species/grade and Glulam database
•Complete wood wall design for bearing & shear walls
•Seamless integration with RISAFoot (Ver 4) for advanced footing design
Product:RISA-3D 8.10
Lanaguage:English
Platform:/WinNT/2000/XP
Size:97MB