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Non-uniform members

Striving for the optimal cross-section, welded tapered members are the real deal. However, engineers frequently face the dilemma of how to efficiently design these members while adhering to unclear and insufficient from standards. The difficulty arises from the complex behavior of these structures due to Class 4 cross-sections and irregular support systems.
With Consteel’s advanced analysis and design capabilities, engineers can seamlessly optimize tapered members, ensuring both mechanical accuracy and structural performance.

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Specific Feature Solutions for Non-uniform members in Consteel

Easy modeling of nonunifrom members – Tapered members

In Consteel, the tapered members are easy to define with just a few clicks and with the help of realistic visulalisation, despite of the numerous options provided for geometry. Member eccentricities due to placement options are recognized and considered automatically during analysis, as well as the special calculation method serving the correct transfer of warping between the finite elements of different heights.

Easy modeling of plated girders – Superbeam

Considering shear and rotational restraints provided by the various types of sheeting is unavoidable during cold-formed purlin design. In Consteel, the definition of these restraints is practical for everyday use and supplemented with an automatically applied special purlin design mode of analysis and design calculations. As purlins can be modelled as integrated parts of the structural model, their restraining effect to the main structure can also be considered.

Immersive visualization of the true structural behavior

The key uniqueness of Consteel lies in its ability to model real structural behavior as accurately as possible, building automation and unique design procedures upon this foundation.
A crucial element of this approach is the immersive visualization, which enables a realistic representation of the deformations associated with the actual structural behavior—whether they result from applied loads or buckling shapes.
This visualization goes beyond conventional displacement components by also incorporating warping and other local deformations of structural elements, making the representation smoother and more realistic. It almost depicts the structure as if the beams and plates were analyzed using shell models.
Why is this important?
Because a visually striking and intuitive representation conveys the structural behavior far more effectively than even multiple pages of calculations or tables.

Exact analysis of continuous frame corner regions

Corner zones have usually significantly different behavior than the connected beam members. Since these zones are very short, the behavior is influenced dominantly by the shear effect. Frame corner regions are semi-automatically recognised in Consteel and specific methods are applied to them during analyis and design with the consideration of kinematic constraint elements between the 7. DOF displacements of the neighbouring members (warping transfer) according to the chosen frame corner topology.

Automatic buckling design based on the ‘General Method’

General Method is the smartest way of stability design, described in EN 1993-1-1. It is applicable for any complex cases of out-of-plane buckling problems (flexural, torsional, and lateral-torsional buckling, and any interactions of these) with arbitrary members, loading and support conditions. Based on the global buckling and sensitivity analysis, it provides a comprehensive and automatic solution for stability design.

ReferenceS by OUR users

Dunapack packaging building P2

Nave industrial

Hangar for Sabadell airport

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Example ModelS

Design a pre-engineered Metal Building

Did you know that you can use Consteel to design a pre-engineered Metal Building with all its unique characteristics, including web-tapered welded members, the interaction of primary and secondary structural elements, flange braces, shear and rotational stabilization effect provided by wall and roof sheeting? 

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Connected categories

What can you do with Consteel?

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Metal buildings/Pre-engineered buildings
Halls and hangars
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What can you do with Consteel?

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Hot-rolled hauched portal frames
Welded tapered portal frames
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