FRAME2Dexpress + Eurocode Design

FRAME2Dexpress is a program for static and dynamic analysis of 2-dimensional framed structures. Distributed or nodal dead and live loads can be specified. Load combination is used according to Eurocode 1, with user defined load combination coefficients. The program performs computation of internal forces and diagrams for displacements, bending moments, shear and axial forces. In the dynamic analysis the eigenfrequencies and the mode shapes are computed. Graphical output for the diagrams and mode shapes is displayed.

The structure is defined by structure prototype wizard, with 21 ready types of frames or by giving the nodal coordinates and the element connectivity.
The graph of the structure appears simultaneously with the data you enter.
The support conditions are defined from graphical menu.
The cross sections are defined either with the area and inertia properties, or by their dimensions ( rectangular, T or L type sections).
For steel structures, lists of every nominal steel profile available with its properties.
Nodal loads have dead and live components.
Element distributed loads (uniform, triangular, parabolic), with dead and live components. The self weight may or may not be included. Element distributed load direction, vertical, horizontal or perpendicular to the elements.
The load combination coefficients may be defined by the user.
Material properties can be picked from menu.
Nodal masses corresponding to dead or live loading.
Mass combination coefficients for nodal masses or element distributed masses due to dead and live weight may be defined by the user.
In reports, the values of deformations are included in addition to bending moments, shear force and axial force in the diagrams of every element.
Units : Metric units.

Additions to FRAME2Dexpress for Eurocode Design:

· Design for reinforced concrete, steel and timber according to Eurocodes.
Full design for all the members of the frame structure, in axial force bending and shear at span and supports.
Verification for buckling and torsional buckling for steel and timber elements. Design according to Eurocodes 2, 3 and 5.
Complete design report.
· Frame prototypes for easy generation of structural models.
· Steel profiles. All the standard steel profiles for the design of steel frame structures.

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