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Formatted member reports
Formatted design reports can begenerated to investigate the designcalculations carried out for particularmembers. These show all calculationsmade and reference clauses andequations from the code.
Steel member design reports can becreated individually or be appended amain model report.
Model report templates can be definedto speed reproduction of similarcontent.
Design codes currently supported:
AASHTO LRFD 7th Edition (2014) - AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design
Specifications, 7th Edition, American Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials, 2014.
CSA S6-14 Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code - CSA-S6-14,
Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code, Dec 2014, CSA Group.
EN1993-1-1+A1:2014 - EN 1993-1-1:2005 Eurocode 3: Design of steel
structures – Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings.
AS 4100-1998 Steel Structures (Australia) - Australian Standard:
AS4100-1998, Steel structures, Standards Australia International Ltd, Sydney.
Design summary reports
A tabular summary of design checkresults can be produced for selectedmembers and loadcases. Results may besaved for use with Microsoft Excel orsaved to a text format.
Results can be added to a model report,and each time the report is generateddesign summary data is updated tomatch the current state of the model.
The LUSAS Steel Design option builds upon therenowned modelling and analysis capabilities ofLUSAS and extends the engineer’s workflow toallow design code checking of steel members.
In some finite element softwaresystems, sectional design is offeredthrough summary pass/fail checkson a model. Whilst LUSAS offersthis, it also provides users with fulldetails of the calculations made,referencing all relevant clauses andequations from a design code -giving a step-by-step calculationtransparency normally only found insimple frame analysis software. Fulldetails of the design checksundertaken can also be written to amodel report.
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Steel Design OptionExtend your workflow from
analysis into detailed design.
Say goodbye to “black-box”
approaches that hide the
calculations from the user and
increase the difficulty of checking
and submission.
Don’t need the detail? Produce
summary information instead in
graphical, tabular and report-
based formats and quickly see
pass/fail criteria.
Learn it fast. Existing users can
easily apply the new designer
because it works in exactly the
same way as the other tools they
have become familiar with.
Create design reports individually
or append them to the report for
the whole model.
Mix summary reports for the
whole structure with detailed
reports of critical members.
Create templates to speed
reproduction of similar content.
Design codes supported
AASHTO LRFD 7th Edition (2014)
CSA S6-14 Canadian Highway
Bridge Design Code
EN1993-1-1+A1:2014
AS 4100-1998 Steel Structures
(Australia)
“One of the key benefits thatwe see in LUSAS’ new steeldesign capability is theprovision of fully-detailedcalculation output. This allowsus to easily check the steps inthe calculation. We are alsopleased to see that the facilitysits fully inside LUSAS, rather than as an external utility. Thismeans it functions in a familiar way for the engineer as therest of the modelling process.”
John Harrison, Structural Engineer, Reid International
Testimonials
We used key clients to help assess the Steel Design option whilst it was indevelopment. Read what benefits they see from testing the utility.
“The new section checkingfacility is a valuable addition tothe tools available in LUSAS,providing a convenient andvery rapid way to verify steelframe structures. Time savedextracting results and settingup post-processingspreadsheets enables the engineer to focus on the nonlinearand dynamic behaviour aspects that LUSAS has alwayshandled well. Output is available in convenient contour plotsof utilisation, backed-up by detailed numerical handcalculation-style reports. This provides everything the userneeds to interrogate and verify the implementation of thedesign codes, which is a welcome contrast to the 'black box'approach of some other software packages.”
Ben Curry, Senior Engineer, COWI
Typical report output