S-FRAME Release Highlights 2025

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Tayen_Aguilar_57
Altair Employee
edited January 10 in Altair HyperWorks

S-FRAME 2025 Product Suite is here! 

We are excited to share the latest release of S-FRAME’s family of tools.

This is a major update as new design codes have been added for steel and concrete designs, allowing for even more flexibility on your projects.  

Stability and performance have been improved as well, as also some updates regarding geometry and loading, take a look below at the highlights of these releases:  

S-CONCRETE 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/8fbzvRpxutg?si=pWU2jx_ACuvanZXd
  • Added support for Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) design as per ACI CODE-440.11-22.
  • Enhanced beam and column design checks, including crack control and shear reinforcement.
  • Improved S-CONCRETE Multistory Designer (MSD) with ETABS v22 compatibility and better sorting/review tools.
  • Fixed issues with reinforcement calculations and reporting.

S-FRAME and S-STEEL

  • Added support for Eurocode 3 steel design with German, French, and Spanish annexes.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/oa3m99p-C_E?si=xJ67ctu62qKaFUml
https://www.youtube.com/embed/GM3IYtFqDY8?si=-bKWn410E0Sw3WxS
https://www.youtube.com/embed/7W4-CItp8OQ?si=Z6G_623euaJsYAOB
  • Enhanced load combination generation for American and Canadian codes.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/CqR4GGwSEdM?si=s05DTjyDkZHpo49k
  • Geometry import support expanded to Tekla 2024.

S-FOUNDATION

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  • Resolved issues with shear and flexure capacity calculations for stepped pads and bending moment estimations.
  • Improved handling of pad flexural results with GFRP bars and addressed conservatism in punching shear checks.

S-PAD

  • Introduced Eurocode 3 support for steel design with interaction factor alternatives and annexes for Germany, France, and Spain.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/g8z1E0QQUsk?si=J5T8ubiAeUUD972r

S-TIMBER

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  • Improvements to coordinate system handling in results spreadsheets.
  • Enhanced geometry imports from DXF files, with joints now classified as "User" rather than "Automatic."
  • Adjusted calculations for Effective Length and Unbraced Length for timber and steel members to use flexible length.
  • Corrected reporting of shear area in steel design code checks.

For the full details, please refer to each tool’s Release Notes on the Altair Documentation page:

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