Autodesk® Building Design Suite Ultimate 2015

What’s new in Robot™ Structural

Autodesk ®

Analysis Professional 2015

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 Simulation and analysis

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 Simulation and analysis
Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2015

 Wind load simulation

 Simulate a wind flow around
your structure
 Generete wind loads
automatically

Better predict wind load effects early in

design
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Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2015

 Direct analysis method (DAM)

 New AISC approach for stability
design
 Notional forces to load
combinations
 Reduction of member stiffness
 P-Delta local effects for P-Delta
analysis

Designs consider all code-required

stability effects
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 Block Lanczos algorithm

 New algorithm for dynamic
calculations
 Faster calculations

Work more easily with large models and

minimize time spent on analysis calculations
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 Modeling and usability

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 Modeling and usability
Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2015

 Enhanced modeling
 Creation of joist girders
 Cut by plane feature

Efficient tools for modeling

structures
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Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2015

 Structural Model eXchange

(SMX)
 Improved and faster round-tripping
experience
 Smaller file transfer
 Compatibility with Structural Analysis
for Autodesk® Revit® service
 Round-tripping is not limited to the
same machine anymore
Enhanced BIM workflow for structural engineering
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 Other improvements
 Access to the whole list of
design codes
 Enhanced elastic instability
multipliers arc
 Optimization of the dynamic update
 Transmit loads from claddings to
nodes only

Set of new productive tools

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 Code checking

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Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2015

 Enhanced steel design

 New splice connection
 Steel design using DAM

More accurate design of steel

structures
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 New codes for steel design

 New French National Annex NF EN
1993-1-1/NA:2013
 New American Standard ANSI/AISC
360-10
 New Russian Standard SP
16.13330.2011

Wide range of international steel

design codes
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 Enhanced concrete design

 Multiselection support
 Extensions of reinforcement options
 Beams, slabs, and spread footing
module improvements

More accurate design of concrete

structures
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 Eurocode National Annexes update

 EC2 Belgian NA - NBN EN 1992-1-1 ANB:2010
 EC2 Danish NA - DS/EN 1992-1-1 DK NA:2011
 Dutch NA - NEN-EN 1992-1-1+C2:2011/NB:2011
 EC2 Romanian NA - SR EN 1992-1-1:2004/NB:2008
 EC2 Singapore NA - NA to SS EN 1992 - 1-1 : 2008
 Swedish NA - EN 1992-1-1/BFS 2011:10 EKS8
 New edition of the ACI 318 code
Wide range of international concrete design codes
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