Castalia developed quite many software programs in the last - say - 20 years (its
activity lasts since 1991).
The main core of Castalia activity is program Sargon
with Samba and its related follower
program CSE.
They both are mainly aimed at steel strucuture design, although can be used in a
much more general context. The couple Sargon plus CSE is a software package related
to 3d and 2d structures and is the most advanced software platform available in
Castalia production. They cover the most advanced needs of steel structure designers
and manifactures. Sargon deals with fem analysis (several
solvers have been developed) and code checking (several codes), CSE is fully
involved in connection (joints) design and checking.
The other software platform of Castalia production is CESCO,
Computer Education to Structural COnstructions, which
is a very useful and easy software tool related to 2d frames and trusses. CESCO was born as tuition software and was commisioned to Castalia
by the Politecnico di Milano. There is a base version which is packaged together
with a number of XLS worksheets made by Prof. Giulio Ballio, a worldwide known
expert in the field of steel structures (package name: Education to Structural
Assisted Design and Analysis); besides there is a professional version (CESCO
PLUS) which also is linked with Sargon code checkers, and, finally, there are
several limited versions of CESCO PLUS attached to CD books which have sold
thousands copies here in Italy CESCO STEEL, WOOD and CONCRETE).
Several other softwares have been developed in these years, some
of which tailor made for external customers, others for internal use (e.g. the
dll ship.dll for fem ship modelling, linked with Sargon).
Steelchecks.com has a limited number of pages referring to the
part of our production which has currenly been translated into English language,
or is in for being translated.
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