Simcenter S-Frame enables you to model, analyze and design any structure regardless of its geometric complexity, material type, loading conditions, nonlinear effects or design code requirements.
Its automated framework generators build models quickly and import models with BIM and DXF import links. You can maximize productivity with integrated concrete and steel design tools for design, optimization, code compliance and report generation.
Quickly define structures using modeling automation to generate regular framework structures, standard or custom trusses, and replicate all or part of the model with cloning. Save modeling time with model import (BIM & DXF).
Advanced meshing tools enable you to generate detailed analysis results in your areas of interest and further analyze them by converting members to multi-shell models with equivalent shell loading.
With the comprehensive list of analysis capabilities and library of FE types, you can model any structural component accurately and generate reports with detailed analysis results.
Simcenter S-Frame can perform any of the following analyses: linear static, stressed or unstressed vibration or RSA, plus ESFP/ELFP (equivalent static/lateral force procedure), time history, P-Delta, buckling, staged construction, moving load analysis, nonlinear-static, quasi-static or nonlinear time history.
You can model nearly any structure, such as a truss, cable, beam, membrane, plate, shell, solid, linear and nonlinear springs, link beams with nonlinear hysteresis material behavior, and tension/compression only members. Generate reports with detailed analysis results.
Design and optimize steel members for strength and serviceability, or create composite beam designs with automatic effective width assignments, camber calculations, shear stud layouts, different member layouts, and support for overhangs and openings. Perform gravity and lateral analysis in one model. Export transparent steel design results to create custom steel design reports.
Use structural analysis results to code check and design concrete beams, columns, walls and continuous beams. Users can design and detail a single member or entire concrete structure in one step, then generate professional engineering design reports with information for all concrete members, governing load cases, utilization ratio and messaging for all failing members, including their design clause references.
Export Simcenter S-Frame models and reactions to Simcenter S-Frame Timber and Simcenter S-Frame Foundation for timber design and foundation analysis. Transfer model data via bidirectional BIM links with Revit® and TEKLA® Structures. Advanced AutoCAD® DXF import enables efficient model creation. Collaborate with Simcenter S-Frame View for validation and visualization.
Beck Engineering Ltd | Delivered a high-quality, low-cost structure via off-site fabrication
“Beck Engineering has relied on Simcenter S-Frame for over twenty years because it has so many capabilities, is user-friendly and has efficient workflows that help us interpret analysis and steel design results.” – Justin Nally, Lead Structural Engineer, Beck Engineering
Design safe and efficient high-rise structures using comprehensive analysis tools such as static, dynamic, RSA and time-history analyses. Perform code-compliant checks for steel, concrete and timber members across global design codes. Address critical challenges like wind loads, seismic events and material optimization with precision.
Analyze and design structures for industrial facilities such as factories, plants and warehouses. Accurately assess and optimize load-bearing members for heavy equipment, dynamic machinery and environmental factors. Ensure compliance with international and regional codes while accounting for safety, performance and cost-efficiency.
Optimize offshore platforms, refineries and other petroleum-related structures with versatile analysis capabilities including dynamic, nonlinear and seismic analyses. Handle complex loading scenarios such as wind, wave, thermal and vibration forces while ensuring code compliance and addressing environmental challenges unique to the energy sector.
