Our past recorded webinars

Wind load calculation is a critical component in structural design, ensuring the safety, stability, and longevity of buildings and other structures. Accurate assessment of wind forces allows engineers to optimize material usage, enhance cost-efficiency, and prevent catastrophic failures caused by underestimating wind impacts. This webinar will give an overview of the possibilities of the Eurocode-based wind load generator of SCIA Engineer. It will mention the novelties about canopies and friction force.

An integrated workflow between architecture and structural analysis streamlines processes, enhances productivity, and boosts efficiency for all involved parties. But how can workflows be further optimized, and how can collaboration across various disciplines and specialties be improved? The answer lies in adopting “OPEN BIM.” Leveraging leading tools like ALLPLAN, SCIA Engineer, SDS/2, and FRILO, a first-class OPEN BIM workflow demonstrates how seamless data transfers can be achieved efficiently and effortlessly. Structural engineers have the autonomy to select specific model elements for calculations without needing to recreate the analytical model.

In this webinar, we will provide a technical dive into this area with a focus on:
Automated determination of the rib effective width
Integration of internal forces into the rib cross-section
Neglecting normal force in ribs by its recalculation to an additional bending moment
Reinforcement auto-design in ribs using various design templates

This webinar is designed for structural design professionals interested in learning how to model and analyse steel structures using two powerful tools: SDS2 and SCIA Engineer. We will show how to create a detailed model of a steel walkway in SDS2, highlighting best practices. We will explain how to export the model from SDS2 to SCIA Engineer, allowing advanced structural analysis of the walkway and ensuring that the design meets the required safety and performance standards.

The material steel owes its popularity, among other things, to its elasto-plastic ductile behaviour, which allows superior strength - through plastic redistribution - when the yield strength is reached locally.
SCIA Engineer 25 enables a type of non-linear analysis that includes this phenomenon: the plastic calculation of steel plates and shells.

A look into the timeline for 2nd generation Eurocodes, the anticipated changes for steel design and a preview of the implementation of those rules in SCIA Engineer.