The best steel connection design software

Your connections are getting more demanding, demand more from your software for steel connection design! Overall stress & strain check, stiffness analysis, seismic and capacity design, design resistance, buckling. Everything as per AISC, EN and other. 3D modeling and result visualizations allow you to take control of the design and test various design options for your structural steel connections. 

The best *steel connection* design software

Steel as well as concrete

Accurate design of welded connections bolted connections, as well as footing and anchoring. Overall stress and strain check, buckling shapes, equivalent stress, plastic strain, the stress in contacts, bolt forces and deformations. All components and steel connection details are taken into account. Anchor check, concrete check, and shear lug. Geometrically and materially non-linear analysis. 

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*Steel* as well as concrete

Case studies

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Permanent service bridge truss, Heathrow Airport, UK

Permanent service bridge truss, Heathrow Airport, UK

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Curragh Racecourse, Newbridge, Ireland

Curragh Racecourse, Newbridge, Ireland

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Optimizing steel connection production, Rijssen, Netherlands

Optimizing steel connection production, Rijssen, Netherlands

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Facade connections at Midland Metropolitan hospital, UK

Facade connections at Midland Metropolitan hospital, UK

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Anchorage design of steel spherical storage tanks, Canada

Anchorage design of steel spherical storage tanks, Canada

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Report that sells your work

Export all the calculations in a readable and presentable document in PDF and docx. You can build the report by adding/removing pictures, sketches, code-check results, formulas and explanations, bill of material. Sell your work by adding beautiful and accurate 3D visuals of the geometry and results.

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Report that *sells your work*

*Understand* your connection, in 3D

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CBFEM plates

Plates

Welds

Welds

Bolts

Bolts

Concrete block

Concrete block

Contacts

Contacts

Local deformation check for the hollows member according to the code

Hollow sections

What do our customer say about us?

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We have used IDEA StatiCa on 6-10 different projects already. One project called Crabapple Market was six buildings, all part of a complex. Another company had the other eight buildings at the complex, and after the initial round of RFI’s and comments from the EOR, they chose to use us on any revisions and changes because of our calculation package (IDEA StatiCa) was superior to the other company.
Ryan K. Carpenter
Structural Engineer
Ryan K. Carpenter
IDEA StatiCa allows a stress analysis to be carried out on very complex connections and the software is very easy to use. This aided our connection design for the main node connections on The Marshall Building.
Mark Hill
Associate Director
Bourne Group Ltd
Mark Hill
IDEA StatiCa allows us to design a much wider range of connections, in less time, as well as look into the stiffness behaviour of connections to see how this interacts with the global structural analysis.
Matthew Pearce
Principal Structural Engineer
Mott MacDonald UK
Matthew Pearce
Thanks to IDEA StatiCa Connection, we have done in our project each steel connection is less than 1 day what would have taken more than a week with the old processes. Today, I only use IDEA StatiCa with some side manual verifications.
Denis Lefebvre
Expertise Director
Stantec
Denis Lefebvre
IDEA StatiCa Connection is a very helpful package for the modeling of a wide range of joints in steel structures. Modeling and interpretation of the results requires an understanding of the forces within a node and is equal to the complexity of the connection.
Gordon Clannachan
Senior Structural Engineer
ARUP
Gordon Clannachan
Once you have used the software for a while, it becomes quite intuitive and therefore much easier to use. It is very powerful in terms of the complexity of connections that it can cope with.
Paul Heathcote
Director & Principal Structural Engineer
Abacus Design Associates
Paul Heathcote
IDEA StatiCa Connection is a very helpful package for the modeling of a wide range of joints in steel structures. Modeling and interpretation of the results requires an understanding of the forces within a node and is equal to the complexity of the connection.
Marcel van Odenhoven
Owner
Staalbouwkundig Adviesburo Van Odenhoven
Marcel van Odenhoven

Proven, reliable calculations

We work closely with numerous universities to test and verify IDEA StatiCa results. No matter the geometry, your designs are complete, accurate, and in accordance with AISC, Eurocode, and other design codes.

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All connection types analyzed

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Bolted gusset plate truss connections

Bolted gusset plate truss connections

Column base plate connections

Column base plate connections

HSS splice connections

HSS splice connections

Beam to column flange-bolted frame connections

Beam to column flange-bolted frame connections

Frame moment footings

Frame moment footings

Spatial welded CHS connections

Spatial welded CHS connections

3D connections with braces and stiffeners

3D connections with braces and stiffeners

Heavy anchoring

Heavy anchoring

3D hollow section connections

3D hollow section connections

Connection design

250+ templates, 10.000+ design configurations, data synchronized with your FEA/CAD.
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Checking as per code

Complete AISC/Eurocode checks. Report with results and explanations of connection behavior.
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Detailing cooperation

Quickly send and request connection data in a structured and visual form. Even without a license.
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Fabrication optimization

Identify optimal connection configurations, streamline communication, adapt to changes fast.
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