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
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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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.
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.
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.
Case studies
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What do our customers 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
The general philosophy and practices of the IDEA StatiCa helped us to quickly elaborate with such complex connections, which we would have normally designed by hand. In IDEA StatiCa Connection, all these connections became solvable, and even better, there is no special consideration to be taken care of. The workflow is common no matter what the geometry is.
Another important thing was that the reasonable connection details lead to reduced manufacturing costs, and the assembly of the trusses was relatively easy.
Byron Alexander Bezas
Senior Structural Engineer
Ellis & Moore
IDEA StatiCa Connection works easy and fast. There is no other alternative solution on the market that provides both FEM and Component Based Method. IDEA Statica is a solid and good tool for the design of our steel connections.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Luc Schueremans
Engineering Manager
Frisomat
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
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
Implementation of IDEA StatiCa Connection to our workflows decreases the consumption and handling of the material and the welding costs in comparison to the previously used approach. This went hand in hand with simplifying and speeding up the production process.
Thijs Oerbekke
Registered Structural Engineer
Voortman Steel Group
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