Cold-Formed Steel Design Software
SteelSmart® software programs provide construction professionals with the structural design software tools engineered for both fast and accurate design and detailing of light steel framing (LSF) studs and connectors. SteelSmart® raises the bar for the design and analysis of cold formed steel (CFS) by seamlessly integrating the well-known analytic power of its predecessors with additional functionality and accessibility.
SteelSmart® System
ASI’s SteelSmart® System has been providing structural engineers and light steel framing contractors with a powerful tool to better design and detail light steel framing members and connectors for the last 20 years.
ASI’s SteelSmart® Framer was developed exclusively for The Steel Network, Inc. (TSN) to provide structural engineers and light steel framing contractors with a powerful new tool to better design, estimate, and communicate light steel framing on projects using Autodesk® Revit®Building Information Modeling (BIM) software.
Extreme Loading® for Structures (ELS)
ASI’s Extreme Loading® for Structures Software or ELS, is an advanced non-linear dynamic structural analysis software tool designed with the practicing structural engineer in mind. ELS allows structural engineers to study the 3D behavior of structures through both the continuum and discrete stages of loading. This includes static and dynamic loads such as those generated by blast, seismic events, impact, progressive collapse, and wind.ELS utilizes a non-linear solver based on the Applied Element Method (AEM) a derivative of the Finite Element Method (FEM) and the Discrete Element Method (DEM). This allows ELS is to automatically analyze structural behavior during elastic and inelastic modes including the automatic yielding of reinforcement, detection and generation of plastic hinges, buckling & post-buckling, crack propagation, membrane action & P-Delta effect, and separation of elements. The resulting debris and impacts with structural elements are also automatically analyzed and stress redistribution is inherently calculated.
ELS Viewer
The frame by frame Extreme Loading® for Structures Results Viewer allows the user to view, analyze and export presentation materials.
Static & Dynamic Loads
Various static and dynamic, linear & non-linear loading scenarios can be implemented in ELS utilizing its multi-stage sequential loading.
AEM Analysis
The Applied Element Method (AEM) based solver in Extreme Loading® for Structures is a derivative of the Finite Element Method (FEM) and the Discrete Element Method (DEM).
