Tools for Connection Design
 

Examples of Software

FINE offers the 2D and 3D structural analyses program including elements and connection check for structural steel.

Please run the setup of demo version from the library on CD Fin10Demo/Disk1.

www.fine.cz

ESA PT 4.3 is software for design, calculations and drawings of steel structures with complete connection design.

www.scia-online.com

RSTAB is a 3D structural analysis program that includes various integrated modules for connection design.

Run Setup.exe to view videos of RSTAB and the connection modules.

More information including a demo version, more videos and manuals can be found at www.dlubal.com.

PowerConnect offers a user-friendly solution for connection design, see at page www.buildsoft.be.

CoP - The Connection Program - design of steel connection according to Eurocode 3, DIN 18800 or BS 5950.

www.ConnectionProgram.com

JOINT is a tool for design of Scandinavian types of connections developed under the FINSTEEL project.
www.vtt.fi/virtual/try/public/Try110.htm

SCS Fastrak connection design software enables in accordance with the BCSA/SCI Green book a full design for: Bolts , End plates, Wide range of stiffeners, Local stanchion and rafter checks, Local haunch sections checks, Local tension and compression checks, All relevant welds.

www.fastrak5950.com

Examples of Design Tables

Joints in steel construction: Simple connections, SCI P212, London 2002, ISBN 1-859420-72-9;

Joints in steel construction: Composite connections, SCI P213, London 1998, ISBN 1-859420-85-0;

Joints in steel construction: Moment connections, SCI P207, London 1995, ISBN 1-859420-18-4. scinews.steel-sci.org

Typisierte Anschlüsse im Stahlhochbau, Deutscher Stahlbau-Verband DSTV, Düsseldorf 2000, Vol. 1 and 2, ISBN 3-923726-74-0. www.deutscherstahlbau.de

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