LUSAS Civil & Structural LT

A structural analysis system for linear static stress analysis of structural frames and grillages.

Analysis capabilities:

• Linear static stress analysis

Comprises:

• Basic element library

• 2D Grillage
• 2D and 3D Structural Bars
• 2D and 3D Engineering Thick beams

• Material models

• Isotropic materials

Integrated Windows 2000/XP/Vista user interface

• Single model and results viewing window
• Supplied startup templates
• User-defined start-up templates
• Working and page layout modes
• Dynamic model rotation, pan, zoom and isometric viewing

Geometry

• Point and line geometry creation facilities
• Point and line measurement facilities
• Group facility
• Associative geometry / assigned attributes
• Multi-level undo / redo

Attributes

• Line mesh creation
• Standard steel section libraries for selected countries
• User-defined line geometric properties
• Tapered beam sections
• Fleshing of members
• Isotropic material libraries
• User-defined isotropic materials
• Structural supports including free, fixed and spring
• Structural loadings including concentrated, body force, global and local distributed, temperature, internal beam point and distributed loading, prescribed displacement loading, discrete point and patch loading
• Local coordinate facility

Utilities

• Annotation facility
• Drag and drop assignment of attributes
• Transformation facilities including translate, mirror, scale, rotate etc
• Loadcase creation
• Results envelopes
• Basic and Smart load combinations
• Graph wizard
• Animation of deformed shape
• Print Results Wizard
• Section library management
• Standard section property calculator
• Report writer

Civil & Structural specific features

• None in this version

Result viewing

• Viewing of results for all or selected parts of model

• Deformed mesh plots

• Contours of displacements, moments or forces using line contours or colour fill on fleshed or unfleshed members

• Bending moment and force diagrams for beam elements with optional peak values displayed

• Beam stresses at beam fibre locations

• Peak results value display

• Stress vector plots

• Graph plotting with export to standard spreadsheet packages
• Animate deformed shape
• Results window summaries
• Copy and paste of results plots to other applications
• Printing and plotting of results for all or selected parts of model

LUSAS Civil & Structural LT product options

There are no software product options available for this product.

LUSAS Civil & Structural LT upgrade options

• LUSAS Civil & Structural - for linear static stress analysis, linear buckling, natural frequency analysis, linear dynamics including forced response, Interactive Model Dynamics, and fatigue analysis.
• LUSAS Civil & Structural plus - for nonlinear, dynamic and field/thermal analysis problems