structural compliance.
HSE™ structural software is an automated structural program for modeling, analysis, design and evaluation of latticed Highway Sign Structures, Overhead Sign Structures, Gantry structures, Cantilevers, Traffic Signals and High-Mast Lighting Towers (HMLT). The program supports the required specifications of the AASHTO LTS-13 ASD (6th edition), AASHTO LTS-15 LRFD (1st edition) and CAN/CSA S6.
Automatically calculate wind, ice, dead, and thermal loads for every member, sign panel, and luminaire – with built-in fatigue verification supporting AASHTO LTS-13, AASHTO LTS-15 LRFD, and CAN/CSA S6.
Advanced structural analysis workflows with animated results, FEA, P-Delta, nonlinear, buckling, seismic time-history, and more — with support for non-structural components.
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A structural analysis software for professional engineers.
HSE™ software enables users to design a wide range of traffic signal and mast arm structures. It accounts for truck-induced gust loads and galloping forces by evaluating the frontal projected area of each traffic signal.
The software also supports the design of overhead sign structures featuring various types of road sign panels, including simple panels, reinforced panels, variable message signs (VMS), walkways, and secondary panels. It automatically calculates wind, ice, and gravity loads for these configurations.
In addition, HSE™ allows users to design diverse lighting structures such as streetlight poles, high-mast towers, and lamp posts. The program factors in natural wind gusts that can generate cyclic loads on these lighting systems.
HSE™ Structural Software provides a powerful and flexible platform for structural engineers to streamline their design workflows and optimize design time. With over a dozen of automated structural models, HSE™ software empowers users to effortlessly create various types of structures such as:
• 2 or 3 latticed columns with 4-sided latticed beam
• 2 or 3 latticed columns with 3-sided latticed beam
• 2 or 3 pole columns with 4-sided latticed beam
• 2 or 3 pole columns with 3-sided latticed beam
• 2 or 3 pole columns with flat latticed beam
• 1 pole column with 4-sided cantilever arm
• 2 or 3 pole columns with tubular beam
• 1 pole column with cantilever tubular arms
• 1 pole column with cantilever flat latticed arm
• 1 latticed column with cantilever tubular arms
In addition, HSE™ software offers a manual mode for designing various structures, such as high-mast lighting towers, traffic signal signs, and more.
The HSE™ software features comprehensive state-of-the-art structural analysis methods, including:
• Finite Elements Analysis (FEA) including plates and shell elements
• P-Delta Analysis, Linear and Nonlinear Analysis, Buckling Analysis
• Static Equivalent Seismic Analysis, Seismic and Dynamic Time-History Analysis
• Non-linear analysis using load control and displacement control strategy
• Non-linear springs
• Torsion including restrained warping of open sections
• Linear and exact non-linear cable elements
• Direct Analysis Method (DAM) and the Effective Length Method (kL) for AISC 360
• Frequency and Response Spectrum Analysis
• Possibility to add non-structural components using Spatial Objects and Spatial Loads
• Advanced Section Stress Analysis and Built-up sections, and more analysis features
In addition to all existing section shapes (circular, rectangular, I, L, 2L, T, and more), HSE™ Highway Sign Structural Engineering software allows the use of tubular polygonal sections.
• 18-sided tube
• 16-sided tube
• 12-sided tube
• 8-sided tube
• 6-sided tube
HSE™ software allows users to animate analysis results, including static, P-Delta, buckling, seismic, and dynamic analyses. This visualization highlights displacements, internal forces, stresses, reactions, mode shapes, and time-history data, offering clear insights into structural behavior.
Animating envelopes focuses on critical regions, simplifying complex data for better decision-making during dynamic events.
HSE™ structural software offers advanced custom reporting tools, enabling users to create tailored, professional reports with ease. With options to select relevant data, add individual or multiple tables, and customize settings, users can design layouts that meet specific project needs.
Editable titles, table reordering, and predefined templates enhance efficiency, while saved custom layouts streamline future reporting. Reports can be customized and exported to Microsoft Word and Excel, streamlining workflows.
HSE™ structural software features an intuitive, ribbon-based graphical user interface powered by DirectX 11 and OpenGL 2.0 for enhanced performance. Users can efficiently create, analyze, and design complex models, visualized as lines, wireframes, or 3D solids.
Users benefit from key functionalities such as automated mesh generation, detailed element creation, and transparency options for components like members, plates, surfaces, spatial objects and panels.
The software supports metric, imperial, and mixed unit systems, which can be modified at any time.
HSE™ software offers versatile modeling tools to create any type of structure efficiently. Key features include local coordinate systems, linear or circular construction lines, and automated commands like move, rotate, extrude, and subdivide.
Models can be edited graphically or via spreadsheets, with options for batch or individual element creation. Persistent groups, advanced selection tools, and renumbering options enhance productivity. Attributes can be set graphically or in spreadsheets, and surfaces facilitate load transfer and self-weight calculations.
The Redesign feature enables users to test multiple design alternatives without needing to rerun the full analysis each time.
• Displayed graphically on the 3D model through color representation or presented numerically in spreadsheets and reports
Ready to get started? Contact us today to explore the HSE™ software.