Versatility and data integration drive productivity for building and non-building structures. Altair’s S-FRAME structural analysis and design solutions simulate responses to wind, snow, water, seismic, blast, dead, live, and moving loads, or other dynamic, nonlinear loading conditions while ensuring design resiliency and regional code compliance. Extensive data transfer links manage consecutive import and export cycles between analysis and design solutions, building information modeling (BIM) systems, and/or CAD platforms. Design and optimize concrete, steel, and timber to regional codes, generating report-ready results for all structural elements in a model.
Linear and Advanced Structural Analysis
Simulate the response to internal and external forces during and after construction. Regardless of geometric complexity, material type, loading conditions, or nonlinear effects, S-FRAME analyzes structural behavior and generates reaction forces so engineers can optimize models while verifying compliance. Integration with BIM, DXF, and design solutions accelerate project workflows.
Steel Design
S-STEEL lets users code-check and auto design for both strength and serviceability to regional design codes, and supports composite beam design, staged construction, and numerous optimization criteria and constraints. Its transparent design results and engineering reports include clause references and equations deployed that target passing or failing steel members.
Concrete Design
S-CONCRETE quickly and accurately designs reinforced concrete column, beam, wall sections, and continuous beams to regional design code requirements. Users can save time by automatically checking thousands of concrete designs at once. Transparent and comprehensive design reports list clause references and intermediate results, indicating areas that require more attention. S-CONCRETE incorporates concrete design principles and state-of-the-art analysis techniques, making it powerful, versatile, and easy to use.
Foundation Design
With S-FOUNDATION, users can analyze, design, and detail substructures in a flexible, automated foundation management solution. Analyze and design deep or shallow foundations, irregular and stepped mats. Save time by smoothly transferring the superstructure model and analysis results from S-FRAME and S-TIMBER to perform the substructure design.
Mass Timber Analysis and Design
S-TIMBER is an all-in-one solution for mass timber structural analysis and design. Use a single work environment to model and analyze hybrid structures built from timber, concrete, and steel elements, and efficiently design all timber structural members for code compliance whenever a model is updated. With built-in automation for fast model creation, section, and material property calculators, linear, nonlinear, vibration and RSA structural analysis capabilities, plus design report exports, S-TIMBER is a time-saving solution for mass timber code compliance validation.
Section Properties
S-CALC increases productivity and design accuracy by quickly generating over sixteen distinct section properties for nonstandard geometry and built-up configurations. With its intuitive, interactive work environment users can easily define models in the graphical editor or import geometry, material, and section property data from DXF and BIM files. They can also select different calculation methods, including database values, closed-form solutions, FEA methods, and more. Export properties with S-FRAME, S-FOUNDATION, and S-TIMBER integration links.
Integrated solutions let you perform advanced structural analysis, design and code compliance checks for different building materials and regional design codes, reducing the time needed to complete projects.
Intuitive modeling environments combined with extensive BIM and DXF file import/export lets users become productive quickly while maintaining data integrity. Foundation and Mass Timber design generates and manages the underlying FE model
Automatic and instant concrete design checks show results as parameters change. Optimize steel members to user-defined constraints. Generate suggested optimum design configurations and produce design reports quickly.