No more struggle with steel connection design
Design and code-check all your steel connections. Any configuration, any loading, safely, in minutes.
Steel connections and members
IDEA StatiCa is a steel connection design software for all types of welded and bolted connections, base plates, footings, and anchoring. It also enables you to solve buckling and stability of steel members.
- Intuitive design of simple and even highly complex connections
- Pass/fail results for any connection, based on AISC, Eurocode, etc.
- 250 ready-made templates, 10,000+ configurations
- Easy application of any required loading to the project
- Complete report including stiffness, seismicity and buckling
We solve your connections
Watch how IDEA StatiCa transforms one of the biggest pains of steel design into a practical solution for your daily work. No matter the complexity of geometry or loading, you can design and code-check whatever connections and joints your project requires. And get a comprehensive report which will prove it to everybody else. This is a connection design tool every structural engineer and detailer deserves to have.
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We help you on every project
Safety first
Get clear pass/fail checks for steel connection design with the complete analysis and design of concrete members. Enjoy customizable and reliable reports with thousands of tests performed.
Save time
Slash the time necessary for designing steel connections and concrete members. Access hundreds of templates with no limits to the geometry, and leverage visual analysis of your designs.
Design confidence
Quickly assess the buildability of your steel connections and concrete details at any phase of the project. Ensure your customers’ buy in.
Leverage BIM
Minimize errors by synchronizing your steel connection design with your favorite CAD and FEA applications. Import concrete members directly and accurately from the analytical model.
Unique method and engine
IDEA StatiCa was the first one to combine the traditional Component method (i.e equations) with FEM analysis. Together with universities, we have created a method called CBFEM, tested it thoroughly, and enabled its usage in a beautiful engineering application.
Proven, reliable calculations
We work closely with numerous universities to test and verify IDEA StatiCa results. No matter the geometry, your designs are complete, accurate, and in accordance with AISC, Eurocode, and other design codes.
BECOME A CERTIFIED CONNECTION DESIGN PROFESSIONAL
Our e-learning course will help you to master analysis, design, and code-check of steel connections. Finish the course and get a certificate that will distinguish you in the marketplace and increase the value of your work.
Case studies
Anchorage design of steel spherical storage tanks, Canada
Canada
In this case study, Odan Detech Group presents a project that they have been involved in – stress analysis and design of a generic propane/butane storage sphere in a high seismic area.
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Steel
The Jakarta International Velodrome
Jakarta |
Indonesia
Mott MacDonald — global engineering, management, and development consultancy company - used IDEA StatiCa extensively to analyze and design complex, earthquake-resistant connections for an iconic and very challenging project — The Jakarta International Velodrome, a venue for the 18th Asian Games 2018.
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Steel
Bus station steel structure
Rosenheim |
Germany
Together with LEICHT Structural engineering and specialist consulting GmbH (“LEICHT”), we are happy to present a case study of using IDEA StatiCa on a project of a new bus station in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany.
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Steel
Railway bridge across Vltava river, Czech Republic
Czech Republic
IDEA StatiCa Connection helped to analyze a railway bridge across Vltava river connecting cities Tabor and Pisek in the Czech republic.
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Steel
Facade connections at Midland Metropolitan hospital, UK
United Kingdom
In this showcase, we are presenting an example of connections of an interior steel structure with an unusual offset arrangement for the cross bracing required by the team of architects of the Midland Metropolitan Hospital near Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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Steel
Permanent service bridge truss, Heathrow Airport, UK
United Kingdom
In this project, IDEA Connection was used for the analysis and design of the connections of a steel truss structure made of hollow sections located at Heathrow Airport, London.
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Steel
Optimizing steel connection production, Rijssen, Netherlands
Netherlands
With the installation of the fully automatic assembly and welding machine, Voortman redesigned all standard connections with IDEA StatiCa Connection to maximize production efficiency.
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Steel
Our customer projects
6-8 Bishopsgate, London, United Kingdom
Museum of the Future, United Arab Emirates
Capital C (De Diamantbeurs), Netherlands
Helsinki Olympic stadium, Finland
What do our customers say about us
We have used IDEA StatiCa on 6-10 different projects already. One project called Crabapple Market was six buildings, all part of a complex. Another company had the other eight buildings at the complex, and after the initial round of RFI’s and comments from the EOR, they chose to use us on any revisions and changes because of our calculation package (IDEA StatiCa) was superior to the other company.
Ryan K. Carpenter
Structural Engineer
The general philosophy and practices of the IDEA StatiCa helped us to quickly elaborate with such complex connections, which we would have normally designed by hand. In IDEA StatiCa Connection, all these connections became solvable, and even better, there is no special consideration to be taken care of. The workflow is common no matter what the geometry is.
Another important thing was that the reasonable connection details lead to reduced manufacturing costs, and the assembly of the trusses was relatively easy.
Byron Alexander Bezas
Senior Structural Engineer
– Ellis & Moore
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
IDEA StatiCa Connection works easy and fast. There is no other alternative solution on the market that provides both FEM and Component Based Method. IDEA Statica is a solid and good tool for the design of our steel connections.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Luc Schueremans
Engineering Manager
– Frisomat
Belgium
Belgium
Once you have used the software for a while, it becomes quite intuitive and therefore much easier to use. It is very powerful in terms of the complexity of connections that it can cope with.
Paul Heathcote
Director & Principal Structural Engineer
– Abacus Design Associates
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
IDEA StatiCa allows a stress analysis to be carried out on very complex connections and the software is very easy to use. This aided our connection design for the main node connections on The Marshall Building.
Mark Hill
Associate Director
– Bourne Group Ltd
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Implementation of IDEA StatiCa Connection to our workflows decreases the consumption and handling of the material and the welding costs in comparison to the previously used approach. This went hand in hand with simplifying and speeding up the production process.
Thijs Oerbekke
Registered Structural Engineer
– Voortman Steel Group
Netherlands
Netherlands
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