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What's new in Advance Design 2012

Advance Design is fully integrated with BIM and easy-to-use GRAITEC Advance suite. It is the result of GRAITEC’s 25 years of experience in structural analysis. Version 2012 has further integration of Eurocodes with the inclusion of more detailed aspects of the codes, new Finite Element functionality and further performance optimization.

New features in Advance Design 2012

  • New functions for quicker modeling
  • New command line functions
  • New options for the automatic 3D climatic generator (according to EN1991)
  • Several new “National Appendices” for Eurocodes Design
  • Timber design according to EN1995
  • New post-processing tools
  • EC2: concrete design taking into account the applied reinforcement on columns, beams and plates
  • Detailed reports for concrete and steel design
  • Automatic testing system
  • Quality assurance: automatic crash handler and automatic testing system

New functions for quickermodeling

In Advance Design 2012, it is possible to call a function directly from the command line. When starting to write the name of a function, Advance Design automatically lists all existing functions

New command line functions

Advance design 2012 provides the option of saving user property templates, new copy/paste functions in the browser, new dialog boxes, new annotations on selection, etc.

3D climatic generator

New options for automatic generation of wind and snow loads:

  • Wind loads on structures with a dominant face according to §7.2.9(4) of EN1991-1-4
  • Additional information for soil categories according to the French appendix to EN1991-1-4
  • Update concerning article 5.2(6) of the French appendix for snow loads values on roofs with a shallow slope

New National Appendices for Eurocodes Design

The 2012 version includes the French-UK-Romanian- German-Czech national appendices for Eurocodes 0-1-2-3-8

New post-processing tools

To make the FE results analysis simpler, Advance Design 2012 provides new specifi c tools: • New options to display the main axes results on planar elements • Option to defi ne clipping values on FEM results • Option to view the torsors on user section cuts • New dialog box for stresses on sections

Timber Design

Advance Design 2012 is able to perform a timber design calculation according to Eurocode 5 (including French, UK, Romanian, German and Czech national appendices):

  • Property sheets for timber elements include parameters such as Service class and Humidity percentage and all the required fi elds for defl ection checks
  • Fire calculation according to EN1995-1-2
  • Section optimization according to user defi ned criteria
  • Detailed shape table providing timber design results on a selected element

Crack Design analysis

Advance Design 2012 is able to do all SLS verifi cations taking into account the applied reinforcement on linear and planar elements:

  • Concrete and steel stresses verifi cation
  • Accurate crack width calculation depending on the exposure class defi ned by the user
  • Calculation of the cracked inertia with the ability to update the FE results according to those new values

Quality assurance

GRAITEC has invested heavily in quality assurance in order to deliver the software with a quality level as high as possible. To achieve this objective, there are two aspects which must be handled by the editor:

  • Automatic functions to get the feedback from the customer in the case of unknown problems on their system => the crash handler
  • An automatic system able to test the software daily with a database including thousands of tests. This test database is run daily and the system provides several reports with statistics (speed, failed tests, comparison to previous benchmarks, etc.)