SCAD

SCAD (Structure CAD) is the computer system for the strength analysis of constructions by the finite-element method. It is implemented as the integrated system of the strength analysis and structural design on the basis of the finite-element method. Is a component of the integrated system of the strength analysis and structural design of Structure CAD Office (SCAD Office).

The unified graphical environment of synthesis of the settlement scheme and analysis of results provides ample opportunities of modeling of settlement schemes from the simplest before the most difficult constructions.

The high-performance processor allows to solve problems of big dimension (hundreds of thousands of degrees of freedom at static and dynamic influences).

2018: Description of a complex

For October, 2018 SCAD includes the developed library of terminal elements for modeling of the rod, lamellar, solid-state and combined constructions, modules of the analysis of stability, formation of settlement combinations of efforts, checks of tension of structural elements according to different failure theories, determinations of efforts of interaction of a fragment with other construction, calculations of efforts and movements from combinations of zagruzheniye. The structure of a complex includes programs of selection of an armature in elements of reinforced concrete structures and checks of sections of elements of metalwork.

Compliance Construction Norms and Regulations is confirmed with the certificate of Gosstroy of Russia.

Computing opportunities

• high speed of calculation
• the developed library of terminal elements
• effective optimization methods of a stiffness matrix

Modeling of constructions

• the developed graphic means of formation and correction of geometry of settlement schemes, descriptions of physicomechanical properties of materials, tasks of conditions of an opiraniye and an adjunction and also loadings
• a big set of parametrical prototypes of constructions including frames, farms, frame grillages, covers, surfaces of revolution, analytically set surfaces
• automatic generation of any grid of terminal elements on the plane
• possibility of formation of difficult design models by assembly from different schemes
• wide choice of means of graphic control of all characteristics of the settlement scheme
• opportunity for work on a grid of marking (coordination) axes
• the developed mechanism of work with groups of nodes and elements
• formation of a design model by copying of all scheme or its fragments
• import of geometry from the systems ArchiCAD, HyperSteel, data reading in the DXF, DWG formats

Results

• results of calculation are displayed both in graphic, and in tabular forms
• in a graphic form results of calculation of movements are displaid in the form of the deformed scheme, color and digital indication of values of movements in nodes and also isofields and isolines of movements for lamellar and volume elements, animation of forms of fluctuations for dynamic and process of deformation for static zagruzheniye is executed
• for rod elements the deformed schemes taking into account deflections and also diagrams of deflections for separate elements can be received
• efforts in rod elements are presented in the form of diagrams for all scheme or a separate element and also color indication of the maximum values of the selected power factor
• efforts and tension in lamellar and volume elements are displaid in the form of isofields or isolines in the specified range of a color scale with a possibility of simultaneous display of numerical values in the centers and nodes of elements
• graphical representation of results of operation of the post-processor of selection of an armature in elements of reinforced concrete structures in the form of diagrams for rod and isofields or isolines of distribution of an armature for lamellar elements
• possibility of localization of results of calculation in the set range of values of movements and power factors
• results of calculation in a tabular form can be exported in the editor of MS Word or spreadsheets of the MS Excel
• tabular representation of results can be complemented with the graphic materials which are selected in the course of creation of the settlement scheme and the analysis of results
• export of results of selection of an armature in plates and overlappings in the AllPlan system

Design

• selection of an armature in sections of elements of reinforced concrete structures for rod and lamellar elements on limit statuses of the first and second group
• check of bearing capacity and selection of sections of elements of steel structures from rolling profiles

Data exchange with other programs

SCAD provides data exchange with other programs, using:

• universal formats (IFC, CIS/2, DXF, DWG);
• formats of these Advance Steel programs (version 2014, 2015, 2016), Ansys, STAAD, Abacus, Femap, GMSH, NetGen;
• plug-ins for programs of Revit (version 2013, 2014.2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), ArchiCAD (version 16,17,18, 19, 20), Tekla (versions 18 19 20 21, 2016, 2017).