LUSAS
For new design or assessment of an existing structure, LUSAS provides all the tools you need.
Idealise your structure using line beams, grillages (grid), plate-eccentric-beam, mixed beam and shell models, right up to solids.
Take your analysis and design as far as you need to with more advanced options
Use one of the useful structural wizards to build your model quickly, then develop it further to meet your needs.
Connect with other processes such as Grasshopper to parametrically model your structure and pass the information to LUSAS for solution.
Carry out automated and accurate highway and railway traffic load optimisation to international design and assessment/rating codes.
Model through-deck temperature loading to design codes and handle variations that are not linear.
Assess loading effects from seismic events.
Make better assessments of existing concrete structures and better predictions for concrete placed quickly or adjacent to existing material.
Assess cracking, crushing, creep, shrinkage and hygro-thermal effects working to – and beyond the scope of – international Codes of Practice.
Model your construction, deconstruction or strengthening project in many flexible ways.
Model in the 4th dimension and monitor time-based sequences and alternatives via Gannt charts.
Check results at any stage, including vibration checks or buckling of part-finished projects.
Get a better understanding of the design process. Reveal every step, every clause reference, and every formula. Say goodbye to “black-box” approaches that hide the calculations and make checking more difficult for you.
Our comprehensive design-checking facilities for RC frames, RC slabs / walls and structural steel now cover codes for buildings and bridges, for North America, Europe and UK, India, China and Australasia.
Apply design checks for steel-composite bridge decks to grillage or full 3D models generated using our composite bridge deck wizard.
Make better assessments of existing structures.
Take account of soil responses or other advanced material behaviours, or consider buckling or dynamics in detail.
Assess cracking, crushing, creep, shrinkage and hygro-thermal effects in concrete. Elastic buckling, NL buckling.
For rail bridges, assess rail track-structure interaction
Assemble load and design combinations to Codes of Practice. Define smart combinations.
Obtain moments and shears straight from beam and grillage models.
Use beam/shell slicing for mixed element / 3D deck models
Present understandable and complete information for your checker. Deliver any format: doc, pdf, xls…
Modify the model and the results and report will change – no problem. Generate an updated report again with a few clicks.
Evaluate different options with multiple and branched analyses and report on them all. Save the report template or share it, to standardise output across your teams or offices.
Model individual structural components or other structures in your project, connected to your bridge or not.
Model soil-structure interaction to any level from simple springs to active-passive boundaries to full soil continuums.
Any structure. One solution.
See how LUSAS has been used on real-life projects.
LUSAS
Forge House
66 High Street
Kingston upon Thames
Surrey
KT1 1HN
United Kingdom
