📄️ Joint types
The design options cover the entire joint standard, Eurocode EN 1993-1-8. A joint can be created based on the structural model using the automatic joint recognition, or independently, of the structural model. The created joints can be placed in all the necessary places on the structure. The placed joints are automatically recalculated based on the current analysis results, and the connection stiffness can also be taken into account when calculating the structure.
📄️ Create joint
Create joint without model
📄️ Analysis of connections
All the analysis in csJoint module is based on the standard procedures of Eurocode 3 Part 1-8, these procedures are almost entirely covered by the module. For the different types of connections the following analyses are performed:
📄️ Results and documentation
The analysis results are displayed in two main forms: a summarized view containing the main resistances, stiffness and capacities; and a detailed view showing the components of the main results which is comprehensive enough to see what are the weakest point of the connections and what type of strengthening would be the most efficient to apply. A joint is calculated for all the loads coming from different places or different combinations, and the dominant place and combination is automatically highlighted. The spectacular documentation shows the detailed geometry of the joint with its connections, and the summarized and detailed results for all cases can be flexibly documented.
📄️ Structure-Joint interaction
The most up-to-date structural design procedures take into account the mechanical interaction between the global structural model and its connections (rigid, semi-rigid or pinned) which generally makes the results more economic and realistic. However this approach requires a more complicated relationship between the joints and the structure and accordingly more serious modelling effort from the engineer. In the Consteel all the joint types can be defined freely or based on the global model geometry using the automatic identification tool, which examines the position of the connected members and the proper cross-sections and offer the possible joint types. After defining the joint it can place back to the global model and the appropriate connection stiffness can be automatically used in the global analysis, and a placed joint is always rechecked based on the current analysis results.
📄️ Joint export
All joints can be exported to TEKLA Structures steel detailing software. See chapter File handling for more detailed information.