Compare all S-FRAME Analysis Editions – Standard, Professional, and Enterprise
Model, analyze and design structures to multiple international design codes within an easy-to-use, customizable model-management interface. Ideal for both buildings and industrial applications, S-FRAME’s flexibility lends itself to working with any type of structure.
S-FRAME Modeling Capabilities | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
---|---|---|---|
Model Size: Virtually unlimited-sized models | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Coordinate Systems: User defined for building complex geometry and loading | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Cartesian | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Cylindrical | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Spherical | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Member Patterns: To easily generate elements of regular and complex structures | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Continuous Member tools for the assembly or disassembly of Physical Members from Analytical Members | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Partial Releases for modeling semi rigid connections | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Rigid Offsets | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Panels | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Model panels with our without holes | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Panel FEA meshes automatically created | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Automatic panel FEs' coordinate system alignment | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Panel area load distribution options | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Rigid and flexible diaphragm modeling | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Advanced 3D meshing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Triangular elements, quadrilateral elements, or meshes with both quad and triangular elements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Meshing tools automatically detects non-coplanar panel intersections and ensures compatible connections along the line of intersections | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Meshing tools convert members to meshed panels | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Easily extract forces for structural objects from finite elements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Wall Integration Lines | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Piers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Strip Integration Lines | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Views in S-FRAME and S-VIEW (built-in) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Object Model View - realistic model rendering | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Element Model View | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Plans and Elevations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Interactive Database Editing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Constraints | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Point Constraints (leader – follower) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Rigid Body Constraints | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Rigid Constraint Line | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Pinned Constraint Line | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
S-FRAME Structural Components | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
---|---|---|---|
Joints | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Frames | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Uniform and Tapered Section Properties | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Inactive | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Truss | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Shells, Plates, Membranes, Solids | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Triangular | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Quadrilateral | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Pentahedron solid element | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Hexahedron solid element | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Springs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Linear Axial and Torsional | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Nonlinear Axial and Torsional | ✔ | ||
Cables | ✔ | ||
Tension Only Members | ✔ | ||
Compression Only Members | ✔ | ||
Nonlinear Link Elements: Gaps and Hooks | ✔ | ||
Nonlinear Link Elements: Plasticity, Dampers, Isolators | ✔ | ||
Nonlinear Springs, Isolators | ✔ |
S-FRAME Loading | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
---|---|---|---|
User Loads | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Force/Moment | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Displacement | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Temperature | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Point, Uniform, Trapezoidal, and Area Loads | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Automatic one-way (short, long, or in any direction) or two-way area load distribution | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Pressure Loads - Uniform or Varying | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Open Structure Wind Loading | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Powerful load-combination methods with notional loads and active/non-active status | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Automatic load cases and combination generation for Canadian and American building codes | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Prestressed Tendon Load | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Response Spectrum Load: Automatic Code based generation options | ✔ | ✔ | |
Moving Load | ✔ | ✔ | |
Time History Load | ✔ | ✔ | |
Nonlinear Quasi Static | ✔ |
S-FRAME Analysis Capabilities | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
---|---|---|---|
Fast 64 bit SPARSE solver | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Linear Static Analysis | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Direct Analysis Method (DM): Rigorous second-order analysis in a single run | ✔ | ✔ | |
P-Δ Effects | ✔ | ✔ | |
P-δ Effects | ✔ | ✔ | |
Notional Loads | ✔ | ✔ | |
τB with amplification factors reported | ✔ | ✔ | |
Eigenvalue Analysis | ✔ | ✔ | |
Unstressed Vibration | ✔ | ✔ | |
P-Delta Stressed Vibration | ✔ | ✔ | |
P-Delta (2-step) Analysis | ✔ | ✔ | |
P-Delta Buckling Analysis | ✔ | ✔ | |
Mode shape/deflection animation | ✔ | ✔ | |
Response Spectrum Analysis | ✔ | ✔ | |
Equivalent Static Force Procedure (ESFP), including P-Delta contributions, for NBCC 2015, 2010 and 2005 | ✔ | ✔ | |
Equivalent Lateral Force Procedure (ELFP), including P-Delta contributions, for ASCE 7-16, 10, and 05 | ✔ | ✔ | |
Options to scale to code base shear (ESFP/ELF) and to convert loads to mass | ✔ | ✔ | |
Five different modal combination methods including CQC and SRSS | ✔ | ✔ | |
Torsional sensitivity evaluation and accidental torsion calculations | ✔ | ✔ | |
Linear Time History Analysis | ✔ | ✔ | |
Constant or variable time step integration with support for initial conditions and options to convert loads to mass | ✔ | ✔ | |
Single or Multi-support Base Motion Time History for seismic analysis | ✔ | ✔ | |
Support for cyclic/harmonic loading force or acceleration & time history functions | ✔ | ✔ | |
Automatic response charts and automatic response spectrum for any point within the structure. | ✔ | ✔ | |
Static load cases combined with dynamic load cases can be treated in one of two ways – solved and combined dynamically (pure dynamic analysis), or solved statically and combined arithmetically | ✔ | ✔ | |
Solve using standard forcing functions: Harmonic, Polynomial and Linear | ✔ | ✔ | |
Combine static and dynamic loads for constant and variable time step integration. | ✔ | ✔ | |
Moving Load Analysis | ✔ | ✔ | |
Linear and Nonlinear Static Moving Loads | ✔ | ✔ | |
Influence line diagrams. | ✔ | ✔ | |
User definable vehicle patterns with up to 1500 axle loads. Multiple loads on multiple lanes following any 3D path | ✔ | ✔ | |
Combine moving loads with static load cases or combinations | ✔ | ✔ | |
One node and two node viscous dampers (dashpots) | ✔ | ✔ | |
Staged Construction analysis and design of steel and concrete structures | ✔ | ||
Nonlinear Analysis: | ✔ | ||
Full Newton-Raphson iterative solver with incremental loading | ✔ | ||
Static | ✔ | ||
Displacement Control Scheme support for nonlinear static analysis - assign a displacement demand to a free degree-of-freedom and S-FRAME will perform a pushover analysis until the control degree-of-freedom reaches the desired demand. | ✔ | ||
Moving Loads | ✔ | ||
Time History: Uses direct integration and allows combination of dynamic and static load cases. | ✔ | ||
Nonlinear General Dynamic Analysis with user defined time dependent loads including impact loading. | ✔ | ||
Nonlinear Seismic Analysis | ✔ | ||
Stressed Vibration | ✔ | ||
Base Motion Time History | ✔ | ||
Multi-support Base Motion Time History | ✔ | ||
Nonlinear Buckling Analysis | ✔ | ||
Nonlinear Quasi-static and Pushover analysis to aid performance based design | ✔ | ||
Nonlinear time history with standard forcing functions: Harmonic, Polynomial and Linear | ✔ | ||
Nonlinear ground springs supporting hook and gap characteristics and multi-linear stiffness | ✔ | ||
True cable, tension or compression only elements and fabric elements | ✔ | ||
Material nonlinearity through hysteretic modeling of link beams and base isolators using Kinematic Bilinear, Isotropic Bilinear, Symmetric Bilinear, Takeda Bilinear and Pivot Hysteresis Models. | ✔ | ||
Convergence criteria based on Energy and out-of-balance force | ✔ | ||
Combine static and dynamic loads for constant and variable time step integration | ✔ | ||
Sophisticated 3 and 4 node elements participate fully in P-Delta and non-linear analysis | ✔ |
All S-FRAME Analysis editions have the option to include integrated steel and concrete design capabilities.
S-STEEL and ICD *
S-FRAME Design Capabilities | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
---|---|---|---|
Integrated design and optimization for strength and serviceability | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Detailed reporting and quantity take-off with full round-tripping between analysis and design | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Integrated steel member code checking and optimization (S-STEEL) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Supports composite beam design and design of tapered sections using AISC Design Guide 25 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Integrated concrete design and detailing (ICD) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Beams | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Columns (including composite columns) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Walls | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Slabs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Foundations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Seismic concrete design for variable ductility requirements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
S-FRAME Design Tools Compatibility | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
---|---|---|---|
S-STEEL: Steel design and analysis tool, used to optimize steel structural elements according to numerous design codes and user-defined constraints (weight, surface area, architectural, fabrication constraints and more). | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
S-CONCRETE: Analysis, design and detailing for reinforced concrete beam, columns and wall sections using ICD | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
S-LINE: Continuous reinforced concrete beam design and detailing using ICD | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
S-FOUNDATION: A complete analysis, design and detailing tool for simple and complex foundation configurations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
S-TIMBER: Timber design solution for mass timber structures | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
S-CALC: An advanced cross section property calculator | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
S-FRAME Output and Display | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
---|---|---|---|
Deformed Geometry | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Force Diagrams | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
General Displacement | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Section Cuts | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Influence Lines | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Plot Functions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Tabular Output | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Video Animations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
S-FRAME Reporting | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
---|---|---|---|
Industy's Most Comprehensive Engineering Reports | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Quick Reports to PDF | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Advanced, Customizable reports to Word | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
S-FRAME Import and Export | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
---|---|---|---|
Bidirectional BIM links to Autodesk® Revit® and TEKLA® Structures | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Revit® 2020 and earlier versions: support for Beams, Columns, Walls, Floors, Beam System, Truss, Loads and Load Cases/Combinations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
TEKLA® 2019 and earlier versions: support for Beam, Column, Wall and Slab, Loads and Load Cases/Combinations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Round-Tripping support retains S-FRAME data not recognized by third-party software through multiple design cycles | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
STAAD™ to S-FRAME file converter supports conversion of both Geometry and Loads | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
ETABS™ to S-FRAME file converter supports conversion of both Geometry and Loads | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Date integration with MS Excell® and MS Access® file formats. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Advanced AutoCAD® DXF link | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Import DXF layers as members, shells or panels, pre-assign properties to layers, limit import by layer or individual entity | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Automatic S-FRAME model group folder creation for imported layers, unit conversions and joint tolerance checks | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
3D visualization window with fast rendering, toggle on/off layers, used to selectively import subsets of large models | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
S-View- Validation and Visualization tool is available in all three S-FRAME Editions | S-VIEW Standard | S-VIEW Professional | |
---|---|---|---|
Powerful visualization tool for S-FRAME model viewing, sharing and validating in a collaborative environment | ✔ | ✔ | |
Export images and videos* to create high quality presentations. Facilitate collaboration with all input and results in one file. | ✔ | ✔ | |
View supports and one- and two-noded springs and viscous dampers | ✔ | ✔ | |
Animate results from dynamic and nonlinear analyses | ✔ | ✔ | |
Export Video Animations of your model to WMV and AVI file formats | ✔ |
*S-STEEL, ICD and the video-export option in S-VIEW require additional licensing fees