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Custom sections

How can engineers create and incorporate any type of custom cross-section directly into their design process, particularly intricate thin-walled profiles?
Consteel offers the solution with its versatile feature that allows users to manually create any cross-section, ensuring flexibility and precision in their structural designs. During the definition process, the complete set of design parameters can be specified, enabling comprehensive automatic design covering all standard checks like strength, global, local, and distortional buckling. This gives you the freedom to innovate and optimize custom cross-sections.

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Specific Feature Solutions for Custom sections in Consteel

User defined thin-walled section drawing

Besides several parametrically defined sections, custom profiles can also be created in Consteel. Profile definition includes not only drawing geometry but setting parameters necessary to Consteel’s automated design options too. These are standard Eurocode parameters of cross sections used for the automatic stability check, local buckling and distorsional buckling in case of cold-formed sections. Ultimately, manually defined cross-sections can be fully integrated into Consteel’s highly automated design workflow, just like standard or built-in macro cross-sections.

Parametric cold-formed profiles

Extended possibilities are provided for our users to define the most commonly used types of cold-formed sections parametrically. Z, C, Sigma, Zeta, hat, L and closed profiles are all available with possible web, flange and edge stiffeners where applicable. Definition is straightforward and design is handled through General Method in a fully Eurocode-conform way with the consideration of supplementary rules of EN 1993-1-3.

Local and distortional buckling design of parametric cold-formed profiles

In Consteel, numerous different cold-formed sections can be defined parametrically, including Z, C, U, Sigma, Zeta and hat sections with variations of edge, flange and web stiffeners. Complete design calculation is provided for all of them considering local buckling according to EN 1993-1-5 and distortional buckling as per EN 1993-1-3 and interaction of those, fully automatically.

Design support for custom cold-formed profiles

Besides, several parametrically defined cold-formed sections, custom profiles can also be created in Consteel. Profile definition includes not only drawing geometry but setting standard parameters too. Therefore, complete design calculation is provided for custom cold-formed profiles considering local buckling according to EN 1993-1-5 and distortional buckling as per EN 1993-1-3 and interaction of those, fully automatically.

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Advanced modeling and structural analysis of photovoltaic tracking systems

This time, we will take a look at the pioneering technologies used and developed by one of our customers, as well as the implementation in Consteel software for the structural design process, which has allowed them to evaluate and design to the significant loads that a solar panel support structure can be subjected to. The benefits of using Consteel in terms of workflow and productivity will also be demonstrated.

Array Technologies (STI Norland) is a company founded in Spain dedicated to the construction and implementation of photovoltaic utilization projects, including both tracking systems and fixed systems. In 2002, it built the world’s first solar tracking plant in Navarra.

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.

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Example ModelS

Draw a user-defined cross section and calculate

Did you know that you could use Consteel to draw a user-defined cross section and calculate its section properties?
Download the example model and try it!

Include in your model a wide range of cold-formed macro sections

Did you know that you could use Consteel to include in your model a wide range of cold-formed macro sections?
Download the example model and try it!

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