Robot Structural Analysis Professional is structural load analysis software that verifies code compliance and uses BIM-integrated workflows to exchange data with Revit. It can help you to create more resilient, constructible designs that are accurate, coordinated, and connected to BIM.
Welcome to the Robot Structural Analysis Quick Start Guide, a resource for newcomers and users looking to brush up on basic skills for both structural steel and reinforced concrete models. This guide shows how to develop a basic design workflow, starting with modeling and moving through analysis, design, and documentation creation.
Migrating to a new software, even when we are somehow used to work with one already, could be quite challenging, specially for a so complex and delicate subject such as the analysis of structures. As there is so many questions in matter of what the software could or not do, or even if using it in the first place is just a mistake.
Sometimes this may be so distressing that will prevent many professional from looking for better more innovative and powerful tools, as they may feel safer using old fashion applications or even methods that kinda do the job.
But believing that in the always changing world of technology and software nothing ever gets better or improved...that is the biggest mistake. Talking specifically about structural analysis software, there have been many improvements, as software has become more powerful, flexible, precise and efficient.
One of these software is Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional, which while being relatively new in the game of structural engineering and analysis, have surpassed many of the already known and somehow typical programs such as CSI SAP2000 or STAAD.Pro.
However and in comparison with to those two, it has been not so widely used across companies and professionals, since the above described dynamic is always in place.
So for those still undecided on moving to Autodesk RSA, or just need to have better understanding of the program before making an important decision, we would like to offer a quick description of the main steps that will lead us to perform the analysis of a simple structure in Autodesk RSA.
For getting an overview of an analysis in Autodesk RSA, let's approach the simple but yet typical case of a reinforced concrete frame integrated by just two columns and a beam.
This particular frame, and besides being affected by its dead load, should bear both a live load uniformly distributed and a punctual load on either side.
It's what we could call a simple chalkboard example.
Within Robot we simply generate the Analytical Model, specifying the columns as 30x30cm sections, separated at 5m and the beams in two levels at 3m height from each other and defined as 20x30cm sections.
So far this is just a 2D Drawing to a which we will assign a couple of fixed supports.
If at this point we run the Static Analysis of this simple model, the program will automatically determine the dead load of the structure, giving us as well the reactions on the supports.
Until now we have nothing to complicated. So let's try to assign a live load. Let's say of 3kN/m. Namely, 300kg. The program will do this at ease and even applying a punctual load it is something that any structural analysis software can perform.
We could even obtain a combination from these loads and obtain the corresponding shear and bending moment diagrams.
In any case, all this has taken just a few seconds of our time. Even requesting the deformation graphs or assigning lateral loads is matter of just a couple clicks. The program will give us the values for displacements and deformations and obviously, exaggerate these results by using a scale factor so we can take easier note of them.
Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional is a collaborative, versatile, and fast software to help you compete and win in structural design and analysis within a global market. Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional calculates even your most complex models with exceptionally powerful finite element auto-meshing, non-linear algorithms, and a comprehensive collection of over 70 design codes to deliver results in minutes, not hours.
Seamless, collaborative workflow and interoperability with 3D bidirectional links to Autodesk companion products, together with an open application programming interface (API) provide a scalable, country-specific analysis solution for many different types of structures including buildings, bridges, civil and specialty structures. Test the effects of structural loads and verify code compliance using advanced BIM (Building Information Modelling) tools.
Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional is a structural engineering tool for a comprehensive analysis of simple and complex structures obtained through the BIM (Building Information Modeling) process. It is designed for engineers who are involved in the BIM process and are constantly supporting the design of the project.
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