Capacity-Based Design Capabilities in S-Frame/S-Steel

Milan Marojevic
Milan Marojevic Altair Community Member
edited March 9 in Community Q&A

I am interested in understanding whether the latest version of S-Frame/S-Steel supports designing braced frames based on the capacity-based design principle. Previous versions required the use of alternative methods or hand calculations. Any insights or updates on this feature in the current version would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Matthew_Sauer1
    Matthew_Sauer1
    Altair Employee
    edited February 15

    Hello Milan,

    Thank you for getting in touch.

    S-FRAME does support capacity-based design for the CSA and AISC codes, utilizing a nonlinear quasi-static analysis.  We actually have a video on this topic which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpeOB5H54dE

    Hopefully this can be of use.

    Regards,
    Matthew Sauer

    Altair Support

  • Milan Marojevic
    Milan Marojevic Altair Community Member
    edited March 9

    Thank you Matthew ! It helps!

    Best,
    Milan

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