CivilFEM Intro - Capabilities - RESULTS TOOLS (POSTPROCESSOR)
RESULTS TOOLS (POSTPROCESSOR)
General Results Evaluation
Multiple visualization options (Plot Controls).
Plot variables according to a specified path.
Plot analysis results as a function of time (Time-history
variables).
Contour and vector displays. Automatic animation of results
Graphics displays, chart representations or tabular listings.
CivilFEM graph features definition
Types of listing:
- Standard
- HTML
ANSYS and CivilFEM arrays can be exported to HTML
tables, to create reports
or read them in other programs (word processors, worksheets, etc.). Automatic
Report Generator (If
you want to see a complete report click here).
HTML
lists compatible with Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox and Netscape Navigator
(New).
Command to configure lists on HTML or ASCII format (New).
Connection with MS-EXCEL. A wizard to generate graphics and tables in
EXCEL, from results created in CivilFEM.
CivilFEM exportation to MS-EXCEL
Smart load combinations
It is easy, fast and does not require great experience (you can be sure
of covering all the possibilities).
Any load combination scenario can be
quickly and easily simulated by using the load combination wizard.
The
loads are automatically combined and multiplied by variable coefficients
in order to achieve maximum or minimum results predefined by the user. The
concurrent actions can be also plotted.
Main applications:
- Mobile Loads
- Code Combination Logic
- Actions in different directions (wind, earthquakes ...)
- Combinations with variable coefficients (favorable / unfavorable).
Smart Selection of Loads and Coefficients: you only have to define logic
relations between loads (combination rules) and the targets of those combinations.
The program itself selects the loads and coefficients to be used for reaching
each target at each point.
Concomitance at element and global levels.
Code checking and design
Once the structure is checked, elements that are
OK and NO OK are shown
according to specifications as well as the safety factors.
Envelopes: allows
the generation of results as envelope of others previously obtained, three
types; maximum values, minimum values and absolute values.
Steel structures
code checking:
- AISC-LRFD
Tension
Buckling Compression + Bending
Buckling Compression + Bending + Torsion
Bending
Shear
Plate Girder
Bending + Axial
Bending + Axial + Shear + Torsión
- Eurocode No.
3: Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 and Class 4 sections.
Tension (1D)
Compression (1D)
Bending (2D)
Shear (2D)
Bending + shear (2D)
Bending + Axial (3D)
Bending + Axial + Shear (3D)
Compression Buckling (1D)
Lateral Buckling (2D)
Lateral Buckling in Bending + Tension (3D)
Buckling in Bending + Compression (3D)
- British Standard 5950 (1985/2001). The programs takes into account the local buckling in slender sections.
Bending
Lateral Torsional Buckling
Tension
Compression Buckling
Tension Member with Moments
Compression Members with Moments
- EA-95
Tension
Compression
Bending
Concrete Structures code checking:
- Predesign of concrete rectangular sections. It allows carrying out a predimensioning of the necessary reinforcement for rectangular cross sections.
- Checking: CivilFEM checks the structure with initial amount of reinforcement and shows the safety factor of each element.
- Design: CivilFEM checks the structure and optimize the reinforcement until obtaining a safety factor (1/criterion) as closer as possible to 1.00.
- The available results of a concrete checking or design are grouped in beam results (beam cross sections and solid section) and shell results (including results for shell element vertices).
- Ultimate Limit State Checking & Design and Serviceability Limit State (Cracking) checking according to the following codes:
ACI 318
ACI 318 2005 (New)
Eurocode No. 2
British Standard 8110
Australian Standard 3600
Chinese Code GB 50010
EHE
CEB-FIP
Brazilian Code NBR6118
AASHTO Code for Highway Bridges.
SP 52-101 (New)
IS456 (New)
- Checking and design options:
Axial+Biaxial Bending Interaction Diagram (2D/3D)
Axial+ Biaxial Bending Checking
Axial+ Biaxial Bending Design
Shear & Torsion Checking
Shear & Torsion Design
Shell Reinforcement
Shell bending design and shell reinforcement
Shell reinforcement works with ANSYS elements Shell43, Shell63
and Shell93.
CivilFEM allows to check and design the shell reinforcement
according to the following methods:
- Wood-Armer Method: design of reinforcement is done for MX, MY and MXY. In plane loads are ignored. The orientation angles of the reinforcement can be defined for each shell vertex.
- CEB-FIP Method: design of reinforcement taking into account the effects of in-plane loading: Tx, Ty, Txy, Mx, My, Mxy, Nx, Ny.
- Virtual frames method (New).
Solid section reinforcement
CivilFEM captures 2D/3D solid sections as beam sections for
reinforcement design.
