C.S.E. (CONNECTION STUDY ENVIRONMENT): STEEL CONNECTIONS, STEEL JOINTS,
CHECKS, VERIFICATION, SOFTWARE PROGRAM
The analytic geometry exultation
Author: Ing. Paolo Rugarli
C.S.E. (CONNECTION STUDY ENVIRONMENT)
is a structural software dealing mainly with the
design and check of steel joints and steel connections of steel
structures1. It uses a
powerful graphic user interface and different finite element solvers, both
internal and external.
CSE is a wide and very important program, fruit of a
research lasted since 1999. It is a solution completely new to
the problem of steel joints and steel connections design, computation, verification and checking.
As far as we know, CSE is the only program available
which is able to check connections built up freely placing components,
that is allowing a true freedom of component positioning. CSE does not
work with pre-defined joint kinds (rigid cooking recipes) but it allows the checking of the connections freely created by
the user, thanks to an interactive graphic user interface which lets the
user place components where he/she wants, rotating them, shifting them, cutting
them, or modifying them at his/her needs, and thanks to a very general and
flexible structural model it manages in the background.
Using CSE you can check complex structures in hundreds or
thousands load combinations. CSE checks by itself
overlappings, recognizs connections, joint topology and proper layouts, and
is able to automatically perform all the computations needed to transfer
internal forces at the theoretical extremes of the members to their true,
distributed joiner points. The program has a very wide set
of checking tools, from automatic fem modelling of components
(including the single forces transferred by joiners sub-components) to addition
of user defined simplified checks (via pre-defined variables and user
variables), not forgetting the standard automatic checking tools of
joiners, throughs and members (net sections, anchors, bearing pressures, pull
out, shear, no tension one side contacts, and much more).
Using CSE you can fastly design connections (using
fillet welds or bolts) of 2D and 3D structures and check them by
Eurocode 3 (EN 1993-1-8) and Italian CNR 10011. Since units of
measure of interface can be modified at any time as well as the output language,
you can link with any thridy party. All the relevant results can be got both
graphically and via a text file.
The lnks at the top of the page (see table) deepen the different
features of the software package. They let you understand how it is organized,
the price, technical features, films recording use, et cetera et cetera.
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1sheds,
hangars, single-storey buildings, multi-storey buildings, pipe rack, plants,
industrial steelworks, towers and masts,
space frames, atria, steel in housing, scaffolds,
pallet racking, cantilever, drive
in, lattice beams, trussworks,
ecc. ecc.
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