Plastic Hinges in Steel Design – New Functionality
The release of FEM-Design v21 is just around the corner and a big new feature is the ability to consider Plastic Hinges in the Steel Design Module. With this [...]
Masonry Walls as Stabilisation – A Quick Design Guide
In Sweden, the Masonry Wall is mostly used as a shell wall, i.e. as climate protection. In our neighbouring countries, on the other hand, their load bearing capabilities are [...]
API Specialist for FEM-Design – Introducing Johanna Riad
API Specialist, Johanna Riad, nurtures a curiosity about how to find and improve upon smart structural design solutions. It was therefore natural to take the step towards automation and [...]
Non-linear Structural Analysis – “Why do I get tension?”
In FEM-Design Structural Analysis software Non-linear behaviour is possible to consider for supports (e.g. uplift), connections and truss members (e.g. tension-only). The analysis where this is included are in [...]
Underwater restaurant designed with FEM-Design
It seems as if the concrete structure has slipped into the sea. The underwater restaurant "Under" in southern Norway looks like nothing else and offers the guests an incomparable [...]
World’s highest hybrid timber tower design with FEM-Design
Rising almost 180 metres into the city skyline, the Atlassian tower in Sydney, Australia, will be the highest commercial hybrid timber building in the world.The project is a forty-storeyed tower in [...]
Get control of the foundation with FEM-Design
Modelling foundations with the correct rigidity and element type is crucial for the load distribution and stability analysis. Options within FEM-Design are the Foundation Design and 3D Soil modules [...]
Sweco Denmark map Revit models into FEM-Design
StruSoft offers a free tool that allows Engineers to integrate and map 3D Revit models into FEM-Design structural analysis software and vice versa. StruSoft's StruXML Revit Add-in enables two [...]
Support to Automate FEM-Design with API
Our new Automation Group at StruSoft are fully adapted to you as a User and your goals to get smarter and more efficient workflows in everyday life. Program for [...]
3D Soil Supports Geotechnics Foundation Design
When technology consultant PCC Projekt AS in Estonia designed the foundation for a new School in Tallinn, the choice was between piling or using concrete slabs. With the help [...]
Probably the best structural design software in the world
A 100-meter-tall tower has been designed in the new Carlsberg City area in Copenhagen using probably the best structural design software in the world, FEM-Design by StruSoft. The impressive [...]
Export Structural Data to Excel – new feature helps COWI save design time
A new town hall will be built in Höje-Taastrup, Denmark. Engineer Nicolae Rares Nonu of COWI analysed the loads in FEM-Design, and documented in PREFAB-Print which is a plug-in [...]