Software CYPECAD

Description

CYPECAD carries out the design, analysis, and sizing of structures for building and civil works, which are subject to vertical and horizontal forces, as well as fire exposure.

It analyses and designs:

Supports
- Columns (concrete, steel, composite, and timber), shear walls (concrete) and walls (concrete, masonry, and block walls).

Beams
- Concrete, steel, and composite.

Slabs
- One-way slabs, hollow-core slabs, composite slabs, waffle slabs, flat slabs, post-tensioned slabs (one-way, waffle, and flat).

Node and bar structures
- Concrete, steel, aluminium, timber, and generic material (only forces are analysed in this last case)

Foundations
- Slabs, foundation beams, footings, and pile caps

Steel connections
- Welded and bolted (including the baseplates).

Flat shells
- Force analysis of concrete, rolled steel, cold-formed steel, aluminium, or generic-material shells.

Ngoài ra CYPECAD còn hỗ trợ một số tính năng như

Design load analysis

The design load analysis is carried out by means of a 3D spatial analysis using stiffness matrix methods, which contains all the elements that define the structure: columns, reinforced concrete shear walls, walls, beams, and slabs.

The deformation compatibility of all nodes is established, considering 6 degrees of freedom, and the non-deformability hypothesis of the plane of each floor is created to simulate the rigid behaviour of the floor slab, preventing relative displacements between nodes of the slab (rigid diaphragm). Therefore, each floor can only rotate and move as a whole (3 degrees of freedom).

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The seismic analysis is carried out by means of a complete modal spectral analysis which resolves each mode as a loadcase and carries out the modal expansion and the modal combination to obtain the forces.

More information at CYPECAD. Seismic analysis:

- Effect of non-structural construction elements on buildings’ seismic behaviour
- Seismic design criteria by capacity for supports and concrete beams
- Base shear correction
- Fundamental period of the structure with user value
- User-specified seismic spectrum

Fire resistance check

With the “Fire resistance check module”, CYPECAD and CYPE 3D carry out the following:

For steel and concrete structural elements: Fire resistance checks and the design of protective coatings in accordance with the selected code.
For timber sections: Fire resistance checks and the design of timber sections against fire action, so they comply with the selected code.