Multiframe 2D - 2D structural analysis

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Engineers with a limited budget will appreciate Multiframe2D as an ideal design tool for smaller scale problems which can be solved in two dimensions. Featuring all the modelling commands of the 3D module, 2D makes it easy to model, load and analyse two dimensional structures in minutes.

Simple or continuous beams can be quickly and simply sized or you can utilise Multiframe's capabilities for designing residential, commercial or industrial buildings. A simple portal frame or a more complex truss are all easily managed.

Regularly spaced structures are especially easy to handle as Multiframe 2D's snap-to-grid, automatic generation, and duplication, rotation and extrusion functions make light work of repetitive model construction.

The built-in library of common structural shapes let you analyse steel, concrete or timber frames. You can include sections made from any other material or automatically include sections designed using Section Maker.

Whether you are designing beams, trusses or frames, Multiframe's 2D analysis will give you the answer you need quickly, easily and accurately.

 

Multiframe 2D Features

Multiframe2D Features

Interface
Windows standard interface, Excel compatible tables, graphical or numerical editing, clipping and masking to areas of interest, sorting and searching, user defined selections

Geometry
Sketch, duplicate, mirror, rotate, rescale, extrude, move, generate arcs, high rise, continuous beams, portals

Modelling
Standard and custom restraints, pinned or rigid joints, member releases, springs, master-slave groups,  joint orientation, tension only, compression only members. Built in library of common structural sections

Loads
Joint loads and moments, local or global point or distributed member loads, thermal loads, prescribed displacements. Uniform, triangular or trapezoidal load shapes. Factored combinations of load cases

Analysis
2D linear or 2nd order (nonlinear) with p-delta, P-Delta, Axial shortening, tension/compression only

Results
Display of major and minor moments, shear, deflection, axial, torsion and corresponding stresses. Animation of results.

Design
Integrated Steel Designer module (optional), built-in calculation sheet for detail design



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