This document provides a comprehensive overview of the design codes supported by Altair's Structural Engineering solutions for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. It serves as a reference for engineers and designers, outlining the regional standards and codes available within Altair's suite of tools, including S-FRAME, S-STEEL, S-CONCRETE, S-LINE, S-FOUNDATION, and S-TIMBER. These tools enable analysis and design of various structural elements like steel frames, concrete slabs, timber structures, and composite floors, ensuring compliance with global standards such as ACI, AISC, CSA, Eurocodes, and more.

This resource is essential for understanding the breadth of Altair’s capabilities in delivering code-compliant, efficient, and resilient designs, while showcasing the flexibility of Altair’s Unit Licensing model, which allows convenient access to these solutions across projects.

When planning offices and foyers to showcase the hallmark values of their customers, many architects benefit from the open and inviting atmosphere of glass structures. Faraone, designer and manufacturer of such lightweight structures, used Altair solutions to analyze and redesign support structures for large-scale glass elements, which are the core business of the company.

The results are topologically optimized and stiffer aluminum channels that can host the structural glass element. With cost reduction, shorter development times, and design efficiency, this use case from Faraone demonstrates the benefits of simulation technologies in accelerating product development.

HyperMesh, the most trusted industry standard for FE modeling and visualization, is ideal for complex connections or industries that need to analyze 3D hexahedron or tetrahedron solid elements meshes. This advanced meshing overview for the AEC industry describes when advanced meshing is ideal for 1D, 2D, and 3D applications and the open architecture that enables HyperMesh's pre-processor to integrate with workflows using different FEA solvers. Using a 3D concrete dam model meshed with 3D solid elements, we show how to:

• Adjust views and separate model components into different groupings for individual visualization and modification
• Add surfaces, cavities, fillets, etc.
• Combine, intersect, and detach solids
• Use mesh morphing tools to modify complex meshed geometry quickly

Fast, accurate continuous beam analysis and design with S-CONCRETE enables you to ensure code compliance while shortening project time. Join us to see how to perform comprehensive structural and detailing checks in an easy-to-use interface.

We'll show you how to:

• Quickly design continuous concrete beams for strength and serviceability
• Analyze continuous beams with varying bay dimensions, boundary conditions, and reinforcement
• Assess responses to auto-generated pattern loading
• Evaluate reinforcement requirements, including stirrup spacing, bar cut-offs, and more
• View shear, moment, and torsion diagrams
• Auto design to specified design constraints
• Quickly generate comprehensive engineering design reports