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IES, Inc. creates high quality structural design software for engineering and related professionals. Your solution for general analysis, frames, trusses, shear wall systems, foundations, retaining walls, floor systems and more in steel, wood, concrete, aluminum, cold-formed, and masonry. ShapeBuilder is a section properties calculator, stress analysis, shape database customization. Get torsion properties, cracked section properties, concrete section capacities and interaction diagrams. Integrates with VisualAnalysis. VAConnect is a set of connection-design utilities that integrates with VisualAnalysis Design level or higher. Save the time and hassle of copying loads and geometry from one program to another. Face it, checking many load combinations is a pain, but VAConnect does exactly what is needed using all the loads from VisualAnalysis, while grouping similar connections for consistent, organized design. The tools also run stand-alone for the situations where you just have a quick check to make or a question to answer. Get back to any design in seconds to update a value or print a report. To run the stand-alone tools, you must purchase the product outright or get it as part of the IES Building Suite or IES Total Suite. With IES Transparent Reporting you get either summary reports or details that look and feel like you wrote them out by hand with sketches, equations, code references, and a clear, logical flow. These tools are the opposite of black-box and blind-trust. Why use VisualAnalysis? You have choices in the marketplace for general-purpose FEA tools but VisualAnalysis shines in a number of areas: Excellent for everyday projects. + Great for unusual projects, and large, complicated models. + Three feature and price levels available: Compare Levels.+ Building-code support is optional, use it for mechanical applications too. + Extremely versatile: model just about anything! + Reporting is extremely powerful and very flexible (save your own styles). So easy to use, most customers are productive within hours of installing. + Over 3000 companies use IES tools: one part-time support person at IES! + BIM support: VARevitLink provides two-way integration with Autodesk Revit Structure. Why use VisualFoundation? You have choices in the marketplace, for mat footings -even among IES tools! VisualFoundation shines in a number of areas: Dedicated to foundations, so easier to use than VisualAnalysis for this task. + Automated modeling - the FEA model is built and refined automatically. + Incorporate the effects of walls and beams in the slab. + Over 2500 companies use IES tools: one part-time support person at IES!

S-CONCRETE 2017 version 17.2.2, S-FRAME 2017 version 17.1.2, S-LINE 2017 version 17.1.2, S-PAD 2017 version 17.0.4 [Size: 700.7 MB] ... S-FRAME Software Inc., developer of structural engineering software solutions used by Structural and Civil Engineering Professionals worldwide, has announced the release of S-FRAME Products 2017 Suite, is a major release with expanded capabilities designed tomake it easier for users to model complex geometry, generate more accurate analysis results, integrate model data from other 3rd party software plus more.

About S-FRAME Products 2017 Suite: Structural Office R17 is a suite of structural analysis and design software with powerful BIM/CAD links, is designed to increase productivity and collaboration among projects' stakeholders. The various components of Structural Office may be purchased separately or bundled together within Structural Office, and with the exception of S-STEEL Design, they can all operate as stand-alone applications as well. S-CONCRETE - comprehensive section design and detailing tool of reinforced concrete beams, columns and walls. Its powerful graphical output capabilities provide immediate feedback to the engineer as design parameters are changed. S-CONCRETE is integrated with S-FRAME. S-FRAME - a complete structural modeling, analysis, and design environment. S-FRAME features numerous productivity tools, advanced analyses, a variety of material models, flexible load combination methods, fast and accurate solver technology all bundled within a powerful and intuitive user interface. S-LINE - an intuitive yet powerful standalone application for the analysis, design and detailing of continuous reinforced concrete beams. S-LINE supports code checking and automated design and detailing to multiple design codes for a variety of section types. S-PAD - a standalone steel design and optimization product. Quickly check columns, beams or braces without the need to build a detailed model for the complete structure. Built with the structural engineer consultant in mind.

Integrated Engineering Software QuickSuite 2018 v5.0 [Size: 14 MB] ... QuickRWall is perhaps the best tool on the market for retaining wall design! It will get you out of the 'black box' and into high-quality wall design in short order. The reports are excellent with full equations and intermediate data readily available for complete checking. QuickRWall is very graphical, extremely easy to use, fast, and robust. This is one of our best-sellers. QuickFooting: Concrete spread footing (single column pad), imports from VisualAnalysis. Design and check reinforced concrete footings under a single column without building a complex analysis model of the building. A standalone tool of masonry components to manage multiple structural components within a single project file. The QuickMasonry "Project Management" tool offers the ability to design a whole series of lintels and walls, for a single building in one project file, following the latest masonry design specifications and offering a host of impressive features. QuickConcreteWall specializes in reinforced concrete shear walls and is an excellent tool for detailing a concrete wall subject to in-plane forces. Complex ACI interaction checks are done instantaneously as you tweak design parameters and view the results. Complete rebar detailing is provided in a productivity-quick format.

GeoStru Loadcap 2018.26.2.845 [Size: 54.6 MB] ... Loadcap is software for computation of bearing capacity on loose or rocky soils, according Terzaghi, Meyerhof, Hansen, Vesic, Brinch-Hansen, Richards et. Al, Meyerhof and Hanna (1978) and computation of bearing capacity factors. Settlements: Elastic (Timoshenko and Goodier), Oedometric, Schmertmann, Burland & Burbidge, liquefaction using the method of Seed and Idriss (1971). Analysis of soil reinforced with geogrids, calculation of: increase bearing capacity, deformation in the reinforcements, tensile force in the reinforcement for membrane effect.

GeoStru GeoUtility 2018.12.0.731 [Size: 42.2 MB] ... Collection of support software for professionals in the fields of geology and geotechnical engineering. For professionals in the fields of geology and geotechnical engineering: • Taylor • Seismic Spectrum • Wells Test • Anchors • Bearing Capacity • Settlements • Liquefaction • Reinforced Earths • Piles • Slope • Converter for PC.

GEOTEC ELPLA Professional v9.2 SP1 [Size: 171 MB] ... ELPLA (ELASTIC PLATE) is a program for analyzing raft foundations of arbitrary shape with the real subsoil model. The mathematical solution of the raft is based on the finite element method. The program can analyze different types of subsoil models, especially the three-dimensional Continuum model that considers any number of irregular layers. A good advantage of this program is the capability to handle the three analyses of flexible, elastic and rigid foundations. In addition, the mesh of the rigid and flexible foundations can be constructed to be analogous to the finite elements mesh of the elastic foundation. Therefore, the three analyses can be compared easily and correctly. ELPLA can also be used to represent the effect of external loads, neighbouring foundations, tunnelling and the influence of the temperature difference on the raft.

Stat-Ease Design-Expert v10.0.7.0 for x64 [Size: 38 MB] ... Stat-Ease, Inc. welcomes you to version 10 of Design-Expert software (DX10) for design of experiments (DOE). Use this Windows^®-based program to optimize your product or process. It provides many powerful statistical tools, such as: Two-level factorial screening designs: Identify the vital factors that affect your process or product so you can make breakthrough improvements. + General factorial studies: Discover the best combination of categorical factors, such as source versus type of raw material supply. + Response surface methods (RSM): Find the optimal process settings to achieve peak performance. + Mixture design techniques: Discover the ideal recipe for your product formulation. + Combinations of process factors, mixture components, and categorical factors: Mix your cake (with different ingredients) and bake it too! Your Design-Expert program offers rotatable 3D plots to easily view response surfaces from all angles. Use your mouse to set flags and explore the contours on interactive 2D graphs. Our numerical optimization function finds maximum desirability for dozens of responses simultaneously! You'll find a wealth of statistical details within the program itself via various Help screens. Take advantage of this information gold mine that is literally at your fingertips. Also, do not overlook the helpful annotations provided on all reports. For a helpful collection of checklists and "cheat sheets," see the Handbook for Experimenters. It's free to all registered users. Furthermore, for quick primers on the principles of design and analysis, we recommend you read the following two soft-cover books from Stat-Ease Principals Mark Anderson and Pat Whitcomb,  published by Productivity Press of New York city: DOE Simplified: Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation,3rd Edition + RSM Simplified: Optimizing Processes Using Response Surface Methods for Design of Experiments.

IBM SPSS Statistics v25 [Size: 722 MB] ... IBM SPSS Statistics Subscription delivers the power of SPSS Statistics predictive analytics capabilities with a flexible subscription payment option, including an easier purchasing, management and licensing experience. With the introduction of SPSS Statistics Subscription, organizations, groups and individuals can take advantage of predictive analytics capabilities to deliver the maximum amount of value to the user. Propel research & analysis with a fast and powerful solution: A comprehensive set of statistical tools - Work inside a single, integrated interface to run descriptive statistics, regression, advanced statistics and many more. Create publication ready charts, tables, and decision trees in one tool. - Integration with Open Source - Enhance the SPSS Syntax with R and Python through specialized extensions. Leverage the 130+ extensions available on our Extension Hub, or build your own and share with your peers to create a customized solution. - Easy statistical analysis - Use a simple drag and drop interface to access a wide range of capabilities and work across multiple data sources. Plus, flexible deployment options make purchasing and managing your software easy. Subscription Base: Data Preparation - IBM SPSS Data Preparation is a fully integrated module of IBM SPSS Statistics. - Bootstrapping - Bootstrapping is a useful technique for testing model stability. Custom Tables and Advanced Statistics Add-On: Advanced Statistics - Improve the accuracy of your analysis and the dependability of your conclusions with statistics designed for complex relationships. - Regression - IBM SPSS Regression enables you to predict categorical outcomes and apply various nonlinear regression procedures. - Custom Tables: IBM SPSS Custom Tables enables you to summarize SPSS Statistics data, and display your analyses as presentation-quality, production-ready tables.

GeoStru Liquiter 2018.18.4.448 [Size: 47 MB] ... Liquiter software is designed for soil liquefaction analysis and supports a wide variety of field tests. The results of the analysis are presented as: Safety Factor Soil Liquefaction / Probability of Soil Liquefaction; Cyclic mobility of clay; Liquefaction of sand and clay; CSR, variable CSR with depth from SHAKE results; Reconsolidation Settlement, Lateral Spreading; Residual Strength.

ASDIP Structural Concrete v3.3.5 [Size: 64 MB] ... ASDIP CONCRETE is structural engineering software utilized by engineers for design of structural concrete members, such as columns, continuous beams, and bearing walls. ASDIP CONCRETE substantially simplifies time-consuming calculations for structural engineering design. ASDIP CONCRETE FEATURES: Simple and efficient graphical user interface. + Complete control of every single aspect of design. + Impress clients and plan-checkers with eye-catching reports. + Design concrete members in minutes (not hours). + Confidently optimize your design and comply with design Code provisions. + Software finds controlling combination for each condition to optimize design. + Verify every step of a design quickly. Not a “black box”. + Versatility to model a full set of load combinations or just a single load. + No silly assumptions or math shortcuts. Reliable, accurate results. + Design multiple types of beams, columns, and walls fast and reliably. + Sort results per span number and load combination for granular design check. + Generate the interaction, moment, and shear diagrams by click of the mouse. + Focus on engineering and let ASDIP CONCRETE handle mathematical complexity. + Any Windows® Operating System. No additional software required. Full compliance with: IBC 12 + ACI 318-11 + Graphic display of interaction diagram in columns and walls. + Graphic display of shear and moment diagram in beams. + Customizable design criteria, options and conditions. + Multiple options to model the geometry, loads and rebars. + Combined text-with-values output update with each design change. Three different units systems available: US (in, ft, Kip, ksi) + SI (cm, m, N, MPa) + MKS (cm, m, Tn, Kg/cm2). Outstanding high-quality output with Print Preview. + Multiple calculations under a single project file. + Project Manager handles calculations and file management. + At-a-Glance, Condensed, and Detailed calculation tabs. + Step-by-step calculations with formulas exposed. + Multiple loading of dead, live, roof live, snow, wind, and seismic. + Detailed calculation of magnified moments in columns and walls. ASDIP CONCRETE contains a COLUMN DESIGN module. Now structural engineers can work cost-effectively to design circular or rectangular concrete columns based upon a combination of biaxial bending moments and axial loading. All software calculations are based upon ACI design criteria and Ultimate Strength Design Method. This structural engineering software calculates magnified moments due to slenderness and generates capacity axial-moment interaction diagram. Input: The required input data is organized on tabbed pages. The column cross-section may be rectangular or circular. The slenderness condition is considered by specifying the effective member length and if the column is sway or non-sway. This structural engineering software utilizes either the actual parabolic concrete stress-strain curve or the simplified equivalent rectangular one. The steel may consider strain hardening region. The loads may be modeled as part of the dead, live, roof live, snow, wind, and seismic load cases. If necessary, the moments are internally magnified and the program combines the loads per specified load combinations. Output: The output results are organized on tabbed pages. This structural engineering software calculates magnified moments and axial loads for all the specified load combinations. The 3D capacity interaction diagram is accurately calculated based on the geometry and reinforcement for biaxial columns. The moment magnification process is detailed and reported for a granular check of the design. The values that fail the design criteria are highlighted in red for easy to identify.

Concrete Beam Design: Beams are structural elements that support loads applied transversely, and therefore they mostly resist bending moments, as well as shear forces. Concrete beams are usually continuous, this is, they span between several supports. A common example of a T-beam occurs at the interior bay of a building floor, where a portion of the slab acts together with the projecting beam web. A beam at the border of the floor is called a spandrel beam. The program performs the design of a multi-span rectangular, T, or inverted-T concrete beam when subjected to a combination of bending and shear loading, based on the latest ACI design criteria and the Ultimate Strength Design Method. Multiple options are included to model the beam geometry and loads, as well as the reinforcing steel. Input: The required input data is organized on tabbed pages at the left half of the screen. The beam cross section may be either rectangular, T, spandrel, inverted-T, or L. A maximum of five spans may be modeled and two cantilevers. The end supports may be either pinned or fixed. This structural engineering software uses either the actual parabolic concrete stress-strain curve, or the simplified equivalent rectangular one. The steel considers the strain hardening region. Distributed and concentrated loads may be modeled as part of the dead, live, roof live, and snow load cases. The program internally combines the applied loads per the specified load combinations. Output: The output results are organized on tabbed pages. This structural engineering software calculates moments and shears along the beam for all the specified load combinations. The capacity is accurately calculated based upon geometry and reinforcement considering the moment gradient due to the development length of all the reinforcing bars. This structural engineering software allows to show the beam per span number and per load combination, for a granular check of the whole design process. The construction graph shows a scaled sketch of the beam elevation with information of the reinforcement.

Concrete Bearing Wall Design: Bearing walls are structural compression members which also may resist out-of-plane lateral loads. The resulting moments are referred to as weak-axis bending. A tilt-up wall panel exposed to wind is an example of this type of wall. Per ACI, bearing walls may be designed as compression members using the strength design provisions for flexure and axial loads, like columns. Any wall may be designed by this method and no minimum wall thicknesses are prescribed. As with columns, the design of walls is difficult without the use of design aids. Wall design is further complicated by the fact that slenderness is a consideration in practically all cases. The ACI Moment Magnification method is generally used to account for the slenderness effects. This structural engineering software performs design of concrete bearing wall when subjected to a combination of weak-axis bending moments and axial loading. All calculations are based upon the latest ACI design criteria and the Ultimate Strength Design Method. This structural engineering software calculates magnified moments due to slenderness and generates the capacity axial-moment interaction diagram. A multi-story wall may also be modeled. Input: The required input data is organized on tabbed pages. The wall section is rectangular with either one or two curtains of reinforcement. A parapet may be specified or the wall may be continuous at top. In this latter case, the load from the upper floor is accounted for by setting the uniform load eccentricity as zero. This structural engineering software uses the actual parabolic concrete stress-strain curve rather than the simplified equivalent rectangular one. The steel considers the strain hardening region. The loads may be modeled as part of the dead, live, roof live, snow, and wind load cases. The moments are internally magnified and the program combines the loads per the specified load combinations. Output: The output results are organized on tabbed pages. This structural engineering software calculates magnified moments and axial loads for all the specified load combinations. The capacity interaction diagram is accurately calculated based on the geometry and reinforcement. The moment magnification process is detailed and reported for a granular check of the design. The values that fail the design criteria are highlighted in red for easy to identify.

ASDIP Structural Steel v4.1.5 [Size: 9 MB] ... ASDIP STEEL is structural engineering software utilized by engineers for design of steel base plate, steel and composite beam, steel columns, and other structural steel members. ASDIP STEEL is based upon the latest AISC specifications (AISC 360). ASDIP STEEL substantially simplifies time-consuming calculations for structural engineering design. Now ASDIP STEEL includes the ACI and AISC seismic provisions. Load combinations per ASCE 7-05 or 10.

Culvert Studio 2017 v1.0.0 [Size: 2.48 MB] ... Tired of struggling with government-issued, outdated culvert design software? There’s good news. Culvert Studio was built from the ground up using the latest software technology providing you with a rich user experience and rock-solid, time-tested results. It employs industry standard FHWA HDS-5 methodology so you can design and model culverts and channel sections with confidence. Use Culvert Studio to model single-barrel crossings to multi-barrel culverts with various shapes, inlet configurations, materials, slopes, sizes and flow regimes including supercritical flow with hydraulic jumps and overtopping flow. The first thing you’ll notice is the graphical representation of your culvert analysis. Realistic water surface profiles match the exactness of the highly technical calculations taking place behind the scenes.

UniSoft Geotechnical Solutions: UniPile v5.0.0.56 UniSettle v4.0.0.55 [Size: 44 MB] ... UniPile 5.0:  An application for the analysis of piles and pile groups according to various design methods. UniPile considers bearing capacity, pile group settlement, negative skin friction, and drag load. Aspects of drivability and residual stress are also included. It also simulates the load-movement behaviour of the pile in a static Head-Down and Bidirectional (O-Cell) loading test. Pile ultimate resistance may be calculated using the Static (Beta or Alpha), Eslami & Fellenius (CPTu), Schmertmann & Nottingham (CPT), deRuiter & Beringen - Dutch (CPT), Bustamente - LCPC (CPT), Decourt (SPT), O'Neill-Reese (SPT), or the Meyerhof (SPT) methods. UniSettle 4.0: A software application specifically developed to assist engineers in performing stress and settlement calculations involving complex load combinations and site conditions.

Bentley STAAD.Pro Connect Edition v21.00.00.57 [Size: 486 MB] ... Bentley Systems Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, has released the 21.00 version of STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition, is a comprehensive and integrated finite element analysis and design offering, including a state-of-the-art user interface, visualization capabilities, and international design codes. It is capable of analyzing any structure exposed to static loading, a dynamic response, wind, earthquake, and moving loads. STAAD.Pro provides FEM analysis and design capabilities for any type of project including towers, culverts, plants, bridges, stadiums, and marine structures. Design any type of structure and share your synchronized model data with confidence among your entire design team, using STAAD.Pro. Ensure on time and on budget completion of your steel, concrete, timber, aluminum, and cold-formed steel projects, regardless of complexity. You can confidently design structures anywhere in the world using over 80 international codes, reducing your team’s need to learn multiple software applications. Thanks to the flexible modeling environment and advanced features such as dynamic change revisions and management, you can: - Lower total cost of ownership: Design any type of structure including culverts, petrochemical plants, tunnels, bridges, and piles - Increase design productivity: Streamline your workflows to reduce duplication of effort and eliminate errors- Reduce project costs and delays: Provide accurate and economical designs to your clients and quickly turnaround change requests.

Golden Software Strater v5.3.873 [x86 and x64] [Size: 101 MB] ... Strater displays your raw data as borehole and well logs, maps and cross sections. Strater offers unsurpassed flexibility in design and layout. Strater’s intuitive point-and-click user interface makes it easy to quickly visualize your subsurface data and create professional reports. Strater is a powerful and innovative well log, borehole and cross section plotting software package for geoscientists. With its modern and easy-to-use user interface, Strater is so straightforward even a beginner can create high-quality professional representations of subsurface data in no time. Strater is compatible with all popular data formats, and can graphically display the data in fourteen fully customizable log types. Maps and cross sections are just a click away. All aspects of your design are easily changeable by simply clicking on it and updating its properties. Batch print or export all your hole data, and save your project file to a template to make log creation efficient and consistent for future projects.