Steel connections and members

IDEA StatiCa is a steel connection design software for all types of welded and bolted connections, base plates, footings, and anchoring. It also enables you to solve buckling and stability of steel members.

  • Intuitive design of simple and even highly complex connections
  • Pass/fail results for any connection, based on AISC, Eurocode, etc.
  • 250 ready-made templates, 10,000+ configurations
  • Easy application of any required loading to the project
  • Complete report including  stiffness, seismicity and buckling
Steel member and related connections designed and code-checked by IDEA StatiCa

We solve your connections

Watch how IDEA StatiCa transforms one of the biggest pains of steel design into a practical solution for your daily work. No matter the complexity of geometry or loading, you can design and code-check whatever connections and joints your project requires. And get a comprehensive report which will prove it to everybody else. This is a connection design tool every structural engineer and detailer deserves to have.

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Unique method and engine

IDEA StatiCa was the first one to combine the traditional Component method (i.e equations) with FEM analysis. Together with universities, we have created a method called CBFEM, tested it thoroughly, and enabled its usage in a beautiful engineering application.

*Unique* method and engine

Cálculos probados y fiables

Trabajamos estrechamente con numerosas universidades para probar y verificar los resultados de IDEA StatiCa. Independientemente de la geometría, sus diseños son completos, precisos y conformes con el AISC, el Eurocódigo y otros códigos de diseño.

Más información sobre la seguridad
*Cálculos* probados y fiables

BECOME A CERTIFIED CONNECTION DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Our e-learning course will help you to master analysis, design, and code-check of steel connections. Finish the course and get a certificate that will distinguish you in the marketplace and increase the value of your work. 

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Complex steel connection designed and code-checked by IDEA StatiCa

What do our customers say about us

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Ya hemos utilizado IDEA StatiCa en 6-10 proyectos diferentes. Un proyecto llamado Crabapple Market constaba de seis edificios, todos ellos parte de un complejo. Otra empresa tenía los otros ocho edificios en el complejo, y después de la ronda inicial de RFI y los comentarios de la EOR, optaron por utilizar nosotros en cualquier revisión y cambios debido a nuestro paquete de cálculo (IDEA StatiCa) era superior a la otra empresa.
Ryan K. Carpenter
Ingeniero Estructural
Ryan K. Carpenter
La filosofía general y las prácticas de IDEA StatiCa nos ayudaron a elaborar rápidamente conexiones tan complejas, que normalmente habríamos diseñado a mano. En IDEA StatiCa Connection, todas estas conexiones se volvieron solucionables, y aún mejor, no hay que tener ninguna consideración especial. El flujo de trabajo es común sin importar la geometría. Otra cosa importante es que los detalles de conexión razonables conducen a la reducción de los costes de fabricación, y el montaje de las cerchas fue relativamente fácil.
Byron Alexander Bezas
Senior Structural Engineer
Ellis & Moore
Byron Alexander Bezas
IDEA StatiCa Connection funciona de forma fácil y rápida. No hay ninguna otra solución alternativa en el mercado que proporcione tanto el MEF como el método basado en componentes. IDEA Statica es una sólida y buena herramienta para el diseño de nuestras conexiones de acero.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Luc Schueremans
Engineering Manager
Prof. Dr. Ir. Luc Schueremans
Una vez que se ha utilizado el software durante un tiempo, se vuelve bastante intuitivo y, por lo tanto, mucho más fácil de usar. Es muy potente en cuanto a la complejidad de las conexiones a las que puede hacer frente.
Paul Heathcote
Director & Principal Structural Engineer
Abacus Design Associates
Paul Heathcote
IDEA StatiCa permite realizar un análisis de tensiones en conexiones muy complejas y el software es muy fácil de usar. Esto nos ayudó a diseñar las conexiones de los nudos principales del edificio Marshall.
Mark Hill
Associate Director
Mark Hill
La implementación de IDEA StatiCa Connection a nuestros flujos de trabajo disminuye el consumo y la manipulación del material y los costes de soldadura en comparación con el enfoque utilizado anteriormente. Esto fue de la mano con la simplificación y aceleración del proceso de producción.
Thijs Oerbekke
Ingeniero estructural colegiado
Voortman Steel Group
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