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Castalia srl is a software house and an engineering consultant
company working in the field of structural engineering. It was founded in
1991 by young structural Engineers coming from the Politecnico di Milano:
Giorgio Borré, who left the Company in 1995, and Paolo
Rugarli.
The company was founded mainly due to the software develpoment of the program
Sargon, which has been sold across the whole Italy as engineering tool related
to the design, check and analysis of steel structures, but, afterwards, its
expertise spread in enginerering consulting in structural analysis, ad hoc
software development, and scholarship in the structural analysis field.
Developing software is a very important mean to reach a deep knowledge in the
field of structural analysis and a very important tool to fully understand Code
application problems and matters. The work of Castallia led to several
publications and books which have been widely used in Italy by Engineers,
Consultants, Students and Companies working in this field (finite elements,
modal analysis, Eurocode 3, Eurocode 5, Italian seismic standards,
cold formed
member checking, cross-section classification, limit states combinations, are
several of the many issues covered by Castalia's publication, and signed by
Paolo Rugarli).
Our main goal is to deepen all issues regarding structural analysis and steel
structures in particular. Software development and consulting are the main ways
we carry on our work.
Our research has been mainly directed toward steel structures. A ten-years
project about steel joint automatic checking has recently been released and is
fastly growing (CSE), reaching the very important goal of allowing free
placement of components (members, throughs and joiners) in automatic computed
steel joints.
In Italy Castalia reached very important goals and is recognized as one of the
most authoritative Italian software company in the field of structural
engineering, also because Castalia always refused a commercial
approach to the marketing of its softwares, maintaining a very high
technical profile. Several papers prepared by Castalia pointed out serious
problems in Italian standards and helped in better defining the correct way to
apply coded rules.
As the structural engineering field is very important worldwide, Castalia
decided recently to open to the external market and began the translation of its
work into English: this website is a step in this direction, the Italian version
of the same website is www.castaliaweb.com
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