Show me how Model-Alive works

• True to our tradition, we are once again advancing the state-of-the-art of numerical analysis with the introduction of the Model-Alive™ feature in SAPFIRE™ ~ CSI's Analytical Engine. Taking advantage of current advances in numerical methods and hardware technology, this option provides instantaneous re-analysis and updating of the displays following any change the user makes to the model.

Show me staged-construction using Gantt charts

• Automatic generation of staged-construction stages using standard Gantt charts
• Stage construction groups may now be defined as part of the bridge object
• Control is by individual objects as well as by groups
• Frame end release assignments can be changed
• Property modifiers for frames, tendons and shells can be changed
• Section properties for frames, tendons and shells can be changed

• Moment curvature curve and PMM interaction surface for arbitrary fiber sections
• Enhanced control over material properties, including Mander model for all sections
• Graphical User Interface allows for overlapping shapes and improved Boolean operations
• Properties for concrete-only sections, steel encased sections and steel-only sections
• Properties for CalTrans bridge sections, with or without prestressing tendons
• Enhanced performance and efficiency

 

Automated, Predefined and Customized Report Generation

• Quick and easy generation of final printed reports with complete user control
  
• Cover sheet identifying project, user and company
  
• Formatted tables of model definition, analysis and design results
  
• Typical graphical displays of the model
  
• Output sheets of detailed design information

• User created documents now can be accessed through the SAP2000 Help menu
  
• Export of geometry and element connectivity to CSI Perform-3D
  
• Enhanced import of input files from STAAD.Pro, GTSTRUDL, NASTRAN, etc.
  
• DXF export for finite element stress contour arrows for 2D and 3D views
  
• Export structural model data for use with soil-structure interaction product, SASSI
  
• Faster graphical user interface and enhanced OpenGL graphics

 

Multi-Processor / Multi-Threading Analysis Solvers

• Fast, fast, fast analysis times and unmatched solution capacity
• New 64 bit multi-processing/multi-threading algorithms

Show me how BrIM works

• Design for AASHTO LRFD 2007 added for concrete box girder bridges
• Checks include, shear, flexure and principal-stress
  Show me Concrete Box Girder Design
• Additional AASHTO, Caltrans and JTG vehicles are now available
• BrIM allows temperature loading including nonlinear thermal gradients
• Enhanced BrIM wizard with more detail and guidance
• Templates now have a quick BrIM option for instantaneous bridge model generation
• Enhanced and simplified span definitions
• Improved abutments with separate bearings, abutment seat and soil properties
• Improved bents, allowing single or dual sets of bearings
• Superstructure may be continuous or discontinuous over bents
• Enhanced control of location, alignment, and properties of bearings
• Enhanced control over restrainers at abutments, bents, and hinges

New Analysis and Design Code Related Enhancements

• Hyperstatic analysis for secondary effects of prestressing forces
  
• Soil (area) springs can now be tension-only or compression-only springs
  
• AISC 360-05/IBC2006 steel-frame design code, with seismic provisions
  
• Direct Analysis Method of AISC 360-05 code
  
  • Includes small P-delta effect
    
  • Automated inclusion of stiffness modification factors, with user control
    
  • Design-decision guidance on when Direct Analysis Method is needed
    
• CAN/CSA-S16-01 steel-frame design code, including seismic provisions
  
• Enhanced design of eccentrically braced frames for AISC 360-05/IBC 2006
  
• Canadian NBCC 2005 wind loads, seismic loads, and response-spectrum functions
  
• Load combinations can be converted to nonlinear load cases for advanced design
  
• Improved automated load combinations for design
  
• Enhanced display of failure modes for steel-frame design
  
• Open structure wind loading for the API 4F 2000 code

Software Development Kit (SDK) for Open Application Programming Interface (OAPI) is now free with every SAP2000 license.

• The OAPI for SAP2000 provides developers of products for CADD and 3D modeling seamless and efficient access to all of the sophisticated analysis and design technology of SAP2000. The OAPI can now be used in two different ways. First, OAPI tools developed by third parties can be accessed by the SAP2000 GUI as external plug-ins. Second, using the OAPI, third-party developers can transfer model information to and from SAP2000, trigger the SAP2000 execution and extract analysis and design information from SAP2000, all from within their application. The OAPI feature is now free with every SAP2000 license.