A powerful structural analysis and design software that enables verification, design, and optimization of steel structural members, as well as composite steel-concrete beams.
Multi-Material Structural Analysis and Design software for Timber, CLT, Light-Frame Wood, Steel, Cold-Formed Steel, Reinforced Concrete, Slab & Foundation design and Aluminum.
Model standard and parametric steel shapes — over 40 profiles including CISC, AISC, European, and others, plus singly symmetric, asymmetric, and built-up shapes — within a single unified environment, with automated member generation and a comprehensive library of standard steel grades.
Full analysis capabilities including Static, P-Delta, Non-linear, Buckling, Seismic, and Dynamic Time-History — with animated results and interactive result tables.
Verify bending, compression, tension, shear, torsion, warping, and combined resistance from linear, P-Delta, non-linear, seismic, or dynamic analysis. Unbraced lengths, buckling factors, and all design parameters are customizable graphically or from spreadsheets.
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• American AISC 360 (LRFD and ASD)
• Canadian CSA S16
• AISI S100-16
• CSA S136-16
• European Eurocode 3 and 4
• Indian IS 800
P-Delta, Linear, Non-Linear analysis, Seismic Static, Seismic Spectral and Dynamic analysis, Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• Design of steel sections or composite steel-concrete sections.
• Standard CISC, AISC, European, Russian and Indian sections or parametric section shapes (over 40 shapes available).
• Singly symmetric, asymmetric and built-up section shapes are covered for all design codes.
• Comprehensive library of standard steel grades.
• The design of composite beams accounts for long term deflections, partial composite action, plain slab or slab cast on standard or user defined steel decks and user defined studs.
• All parameters required to calculate the resistance of the elements such as unbraced length, buckling lengths, buckling factors and others can be customized either graphically or from spreadsheets.
• Several design parameters can also be calculated by the program.
• Steel verification includes sections classification, resistance and stability checks according to the applicable standard.
• Calculation of the bending, compression, tension, shear, torsion/warping and combined resistance of steel and composite elements based on the results of a linear, P-Delta, non-linear, seismic or dynamic analysis. The program also verifies web yielding and web crippling at supports.
• GSE steel performs an optimization of a number of selected groups of members. The optimization can then be carried for the whole structure or a part of the structure.
• GSE Steel enables structural steel designers to design cold-formed steel members in accordance with the North American specification for cold-formed steel structural members.
• Supported Standards: Covers the United States & Mexico (AISI S100-16), and Canada (CSA S136-16).
• Hybrid Structure Design: Supports models combining cold-formed steel sections with regular steel shapes, allowing for the design of hybrid structures.
•When required by the steel design standard, slender sections of regular shapes are also calculated using CSA S136-16 or AISI S100-16. The program covers all standard shapes as well as parametric shapes.
•60° and 90° angles and 90° angles with lips
•Channel with or without lips
•Z sections with or without lips
•U (Hat) sections
•Tension resistance (Chapter D)
•Compression resistance including distortional buckling (Chapter E)
•Bending resistance including distortional buckling (Chapter F)
•Shear resistance (Chapter G)
•Combined forces (Chapter H)
•Web yielding and web crippling at supports (Chapter G)
Limit states can be displayed graphically on the 3D model by means of colors or numerically in spreadsheets and reports.
• Customizable, user-friendly, and exhaustive report generation in multiple formats including Word document and Excel worksheet
• Generate executive report summary by printing the results for only the critical load combination
• Steel Calculator™ included
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within a single, integrated software environment
Combine Steel, Concrete, Timber, CLT, Cold-Formed Steel, and Aluminum within a single structural model — with full code-checking for each material simultaneously.
CLT, Mass Timber, and Light-Frame Wood design per NDS and CSA O86 — including shear wall generation, custom lay-ups, and orthotropic CLT behavior.
Steel and Cold-Formed Steel design per AISC 360 LRFD & ASD, AISI S100, CSA S16 and S136 — with member optimization and direct analysis method (DAM).
Reinforced concrete, slab, and foundation design per ACI-318, CSA-A23.3 and ECP-203 — including punching shear, design strips, and slab-on-grade analysis.
Aluminum structural analysis and design per AA ADM 2020 and CSA S157 — fully integrated within the multi-material environment.