Metal buildings/Pre-engineered buildings
While designing metal buildings may seem like an everyday task, it can also be complex and challenging. Factors such as non-uniform (tapered) members, lateral-torsional buckling, tension-only bracings, frame corners, restraints, and considerations of sheeting pose exciting challenges that often make traditional design approaches difficult to apply.
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At Consteel, we provide comprehensive solutions that empower you to navigate the intricacies of structural design effortlessly. Our platform equips you with the tools not only to analyze and understand the behavior of your structures but also to exert precise control over their performance.
With Consteel, every project becomes an opportunity for learning, allowing you to rediscover the joy of structural design.
Specific Feature Solutions for Hall and hangar Structures 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 purlins – Purlinline
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.
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.
Load combination filtering
In nearly all structural design projects, a major challenge arises from the vast number of load cases and combinations defined by standards. While many of these combinations are neither relevant nor critical for design, it is often unclear which ones can be safely disregarded. As a result, the optimization process becomes burdened with excessive and unnecessary calculations.
To address this issue, the load combination filtering function provides a powerful solution. By leveraging the type of load combinations and prior analysis and design results, users can define a variety of filtering rules to identify only the most relevant cases. The refined list of load combinations can then be saved for different stages of the optimization process, streamlining the design workflow and significantly reducing computation time.
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WHY CHOOSE CONSTEEL?
TRUSTED EXPERIENCE
ConSteel Solutions Ltd. is a software developer company specialized in structural analysis and design for steel, composite structures with more than 25 years of experience in steel design.
Pioneer innovations
We continuously research and implement the most modern ways of steel design based on high-level, integrated numerical analysis. We are also seriously dealing with design issues outside of the standard methods in order to offer practical solutions for the engineers in these complex fields as well.
Unparalleled support
With Consteel, you benefit from expert local support and valuable guidance at every stage, provided by our highly regarded and experienced support team. We’re proud that our users are satisfied with the support they receive.
WHO RECOMMENDS US?
‘Consteel is a great asset for Arambol Ingeniería S.L. Thanks to its workflow we can design, calculate and present a project in record time. The program is very intuitive and easy to use. Technically, the seventh degree of freedom is an enormously useful tool to check structures with the general method, and even obtain reliable results thanks to the use of buckling shapes together with the imperfections to obtain utilization ratios that, physically, are more realistic than the reduction coefficients. Consteel has very specialized features such as the shear field or the frame corner wizard that add an extra degree of professionalism to the calculation, which translates into greater efficiency in the use of steel and, therefore, money.’
‘The Alba Arena project highlighted the extraordinary potential of the Consteel software and Pangolin. It is a pioneering technology that enables the parametric design of complex geometry and large-scale structures through the Grasshopper system. The Pangolin award is an exceptional recognition for me and the bim.GROUP, as it is a positive feedback on the quality of our work and an opportunity to showcase our expertise on an international level.’ said Dávid Lewandowski, Steel Structure Designer, regarding the award.’
‘Consteel’s technical support team is very professional. Especially Mr. Balint Vaszilievits-Sömjén, he has been a great help to us! We were impressed by his professionalism and dedication. We are satisfied with the use of Consteel, which has proven its worth in our international projects.’
‘I started using the Consteel design software during my university studies, when it was Consteel version 6. Even then I was impressed by the simplicity, transparency, and speed of the program. Since then, I have had the pleasure of designing many structures with the program, from small to large: industrial halls, office buildings, large opening roof structures, staircases, flying garages, pipe bridges, canopies, secondary closure elements, or the transmission line poles on which my doctoral thesis was based.
The bottom line is that it allows a structural engineer to model any structure in 3D in a structurally correct way, yet quickly and with a low risk of error. The most complex geometric type includes, for example, a lattice structure, where stability loss shapes can be efficiently calculated and sections optimised. One of my favourite features is the interpretability of the results, and the fact that the program receives significant updates year after year, which is the most user-oriented.’
‘From the very beginning, I really like Consteel because it can be used to perform global steel structure tests in a complex and compact way, efficiently. In addition, the software integrates well with automated parameter-driven design algorithms – so I can heartily recommend it.’
The approach of the Consteel team to software development also deserves praise, which shows a well-thought-out path of software development in terms of suitability for practical applications (and not only in terms of changing the graphic interface as is the case in other developers).
We recommend Consteel to all experienced engineers.’
knowledge behind consteel
Frame corner wizard
Theory and application of the general method of Eurocode 3 (full access)
Accurate beam finite element for tapered members
Frame design using nonprismatic members – Satisfying the need for speed
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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