Modeling Features

• Comprehensive drawing/editing environment: draw, generate, modify and load elements as well as snap, move, rotate, copy, mirror, scale, split, merge, mesh, delete, apply, etc.
• Versatile drawing grids (orthogonal, radial, skewed)
• Universal snaps and object snaps allow drawing without grids
• Powerful graphic select/unselect tools including box, line, polygon, invert, criteria, spreadsheet based, save/recall selections with locking
• True spreadsheet editing with cut, paste, fill, math, sort, find, etc.
• Open multiple spreadsheets simultaneously
• Dynamic synchronization between spreadsheets and graphics
• Constant in-stream error checking and data validation
• Unlimited undo/redo capability, automatic timed backup
• Generation templates for grids, disks, arcs, etc.
• Sophisticated in-stream truss builder application; automatic creation of trusses of all kinds, with varying chord slopes, web patterns, etc.
• Automatic generation of continuous beams
• Support for all units systems & conversions at any time
• Automatic interaction with RISASection custom shape libraries
• Modification tools that modify single items or entire selections
• Import and export DXF
• Export to RISA-3D

Design Codes

• Steel Design Codes: AISC 360-16/10/05: ASD & LRFD, AISC 2nd & 3rd: LRFD, AISC 9th: ASD, CSA S16-14/09/05/01/CSA-S16.1-94, BS 5950-1: 2000, EN 1993-1-1:2014/2005, ENV 1993-1-1:1992, IS 800: 2007/1998, AS 4100-1998, NZS 3404: 1997
• Concrete Design Codes: ACI 318-19/14/11/08/05/02/99, CSA A23.3-14/04/94, NTC-DF 2004, BS 8110-1: 1997, BS EN 1992-1-1: 2004+A1: 2014/2004, EN 1992-1-1:1992, IS 456: 2000, AS 3600-2001, NZS 3101: 1995, SBC 304-2007
• Cold Formed Steel Design Codes: AISI S100-16/12/10/07: ASD & LRFD, AISI NAS-04/01: ASD & LRFD, AISI 1999: ASD & LRFD, CSA S136-16/12/10/07/04/01: LSD, CANACERO 16: ASD, CANACERO 12/10/07/04/01: ASD & LRFD
• Aluminum Design Codes: AA ADM1-15/10: ASD & LRFD, AA ADM1-05: ASD
• Wood Design Codes: AWC NDS-18/15/12: ASD, AWC NDS-18/15: LRFD, AF&PA NDS-08/05/01/97/91: ASD, CSA 086-14/09 Ultimate, Structural Composite Lumber, multi-ply, full sawn, Glulam, shear walls
• Masonry Design Codes: TMS 402-16: ASD & Strength, ACI 530-13/11/08/05/02: ASD & Strength, ACI 530-99: ASD, UBC 1997: ASD & Strength
• Stainless Steel Design Code: AISC 360-16/10: ASD & LRFD

Analysis Features

• Accelerated true sparse solver for static analysis
• Flexible modeling of P-Delta effects
• Accelerated (Lanczos) and Ritz Vector Dynamics Solver
• Multiple simultaneous dynamic and response spectra analysis using Gupta, CQC or SRSS mode combinations
• True physical member modeling (members are aware of interior joints)
• State-of-the-art 3 or 4 node plate/shell elements, plane stress option
• Plate Thermal Loading
• High end automatic mesh generation – draw a polygon with any number of sides to create a mesh of well formed quadrilateral (NO triangular) elements
• Accurate analysis of tapered wide flanges - web, top and bottom flanges may all taper independently
• Multiple simultaneous moving loads with standard AASHTO loads and custom moving loads for bridges, cranes, etc.
• Automatic Top of Member offset modeling
• Joint master-slave assignments
• Enforced joint displacements
• 1-Way members, for tension only bracing, slipping, etc
• 1-Way springs, for modeling soils and other effects
• Euler members: Compression up to buckling load, then turn off
• Story drift calculations provide relative drift and ratio to height
• Automatic self-weight calculations for members and plates
• Beam deflection ratio options.
• Masonry lintel analysis using FEA

Design Features

• Designs/optimizes concrete, hot rolled & cold formed steel, wood, masonry and aluminum
• Concrete design using cracked or uncracked sections
• Masonry wall design for in-plane & bearing loads (with or w/o openings)
• Program selected or user-defined rebar layouts for flexure and shear
• Exact integration of concrete stress distributions using a rectangular stress block or a more accurate parabolic stress block
• Concrete wall design, including in-plane, out-of-plane and bearing loads
• Automatic spectra generation for ASCE 7, NBC, IS 1893, NTC
• Extensive user controlled generation of load combinations: ASCE, UBC, IBC, BOCA, SBC, ACI, NBC, International
• Intelligent unbraced length calculations for physical members
• Tapered wide flange design with either ASD or LRFD codes
• Optimization of member sizes for all materials and all design codes, controlled by standard or user-defined lists of available sizes and criteria such as maximum depths/widths, limiting code checks, deflection, etc.
• Automatic calculation of custom shape properties and interaction with RISASection Shape Library
• Steel Shapes: AISC, HSS, CAN, ARBED, AISC Historic & numerous foreign databases
• Light Gage Shapes: AISI, SSMA, Dale/Incor, Dietrich, Marino\WARE
• Wood Shapes: Complete NDS species/grade and Glulam database as well as user defined custom wood species
• Complete wood wall design for bearing & shear walls, including chord strap and/or hold down design. Choose from all three design methods: Segmented, Perforated & Force Transfer Around Openings.

Graphics Features

• Unlimited simultaneous model view windows
• “True to scale” rendering with translucency, even when drawing
• High-speed redraw algorithm for instant refreshing
• Dynamic zoom, pan, rotate, scroll, snap views
• Font and Color Control
• Saved views to quickly restore frequent or desired views
• Full render or wire-frame animations of deflected model and dynamic mode shapes with frame and speed control
• Animation of moving loads with speed controls
• Distance tool for measuring between points
• Force/moment summation about any arbitrary cut line

Results Features

• Graphic presentation of color-coded results and plotted designs
• Color contours of plate stresses and forces with quadratic smoothing, the contours may also be animated
• Spreadsheet results with sorting of: reactions, member & joint deflections, beam & plate forces/stresses, optimized sizes, code designs, concrete reinforcing, material takeoffs, frequencies & mode shapes
• Standard and user-defined reports
• Graphic member detail reports with force/stress/deflection diagrams and detailed design calculations and expanded diagrams that display magnitudes at any dialed location

General Features

• Compatible with Windows 8.1/10 (64-bit Windows)
• Extensive customization options & user defaults
• Program technical support provided by Professional Engineers