3D FEM premium

The solution for challenging projects

The 3D FEM premium package offers all the features for a successfull analysis and design for the most demanding projects in Building Construction and Industrial engineering. Appart the input option of SOFiSTiK AutoCAD^® add-on or Autodesk^® Revit^® Structure, the use of pile elements and nonlinear effects makes the simulation of soil-structure interaction possible.

Design according to Eurocodes, stability analysis and many international standards (e.g. BS EN 1992, AASHTO) complete the design possibilities. Along with the graphicall interactive post-processing, the integration of area-element results with Excel interface and VBA offers full flexibility to the user.

Functionalities at a glance

Modeling in Autodesk Revit or AutoCAD
Automatic Generation & Revision of the Analytical Model in Revit (Building Information Modeling)
Import/Export of calculation model (IFC and SAF)
3D beam-, shell-, slab- and shear wall elements (Finite Element Analysis)

Simulation of construction stages and time-dependent effects for shell elements
Automatic determination of resulting elastic support stiffness for 2D analysis from 3D BIM Models
Tension-only bedding for slabs
Nonlinear springs and worklaws for springs
Integration of area-element results

3D R/C design in ULS and SLS (BS EN 1992-1-1, NF EN 1992-1-1, US ACI-318-14 among others)
Nonlinear beam elements for R/C and steel
Theory of 2nd order and steel design analysis according to Eurocode (automatic sectional classification for classes 1-3 and automatic determination of effective areas for class 4)
Interactive graphical post-processing and plotting

System requirements for 3D FEM premium

For graphical system input with SOFiPLUS, AutoCAD^® or AutoCAD^® OEM license is required.
For full accessibility to BIM modeling, Autodesk^® Revit^®Structure is required.