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CAE SETS (Structure Engineering Turnkey System): True #1

UNIVERSAL STRUCTURE PROGRAM (HyperSTRUDL) WIN2000/7/8/10/11 & LINUX & MAC

A Universal Structure Program, mnemonic USP, has been developed. It is a powerful general purpose finite element program that covers entire field of A/E/C industry currently. It has following main capabilities:

1) Warranty of highest CREDIBILITY to perform substantially to the documented specifications to restore good name of the industry to users who are cheated by Vendor (STAAD III of Research Engineers) whose warranty contains: MISREPRESENTATION and NO ACCEPTANCE of RESPONSIBILITY for such MISREPRESENTATION.

2) Ranking FIRST to SAVE MAN POWER to GET INPUT DATA READY:

2-1) VIDEO SCREEN DATA input/output/generation capability through PrePre_1  |  PrePre_2 (To TUTORIAL) a FULLY U S P (HyperSTRUDL) INTEGRATED SYSTEM in colors to mostly press ONE-KEY BUTTONS on SCREEN DISPLAY to prepare data from BLANK SCRATCH to FINISH - a powerful real time interactive TEXT and GRAPHIC capability that is a pre-processor of pre-processors unmatched by others that require a lot of time to do initial key-in like and/or by an TEXT editor.
2-2) Intensive on-line screen display of menu driven input/output capability that eliminates the need to constantly reference to input guide.
2-3) Mathematical expression as input data item that contains:
  • VARIABLE, =, **, *, /, +, - (Note: _ underscore is used instead due to symbol conflict) (For examples: Y=2**2+2**3_2*2, A=14*30, A*30**2/12, 1/12*14*30**3) for easy key-in,if needed.
  • ALONG WITH: MULtiplier, DIVisor, ADDer and SUBtracter,
  • to effectively handle,in ONE SINGLE RUN,for data that are from various data bases with different Unit Systems.
  • This capability can be used to port your existing data by others to CAESETS.
  • Also CAEinc provides additional Programs to convert many STRUDL/STRUDL-LIKE competitors' data to ease the conversions.
2-4) ALL TEXT (ASCII) FILES ( INPUT, OUTPUT or IN-BETWEEN) to let you IMPORT and/or EXPORT to ANY other program. Your own DATA BASE can merge with VENDOR Supplied DATA BASE. ALL MIXED DATA BASE can be used WITHOUT CONVERSION , which the ARTICLE above will do for you.
2-5) Flexibility in input command both for computer run and human communication purpose:
(further useful features to modify competitors' data for you to port to CAESETS.)
  • data DEACtivate and REACtivate and extra non-computer run data.
  • $ comment line portion -- Left, Middle, Right or Entire--
  • <blank>, <,> and/or </> as input item delimiter.
2-6) ALL INPUT DATA CLASSIFIED and REGULARIZED to ease preparation for use and retrival for future reuse.(intact or slight modification) Some Template files are also provided.
  • MODEL.DAT: Joint Coordinates with Boundary Conditions and Element Incidences
  • SECT.DAT: Section Property
  • LOAD.DAT: Loads on the structure
  • MAT.DAT: Material Property (Premade and reusable)
2-7) ALL FREE FORMAT plain English language input.
2-8) No open quote, <'>; nor close quote, <'> in any literal data; JUST PLAIN ENGLISH abbreviated or complete word.
2-9) NONE of MANUAL NUMBERING or COUNTING of any kind. (JOINTS, ELEMENTS, LOADS OR ANY OTHERS)(Counting is done by computer after input.)
NO NEED to asign a numerical number in INPUT to an ELEMENT to futher save time. The element number is asigned by the Program on OUTPUTS (interim to Screen Monitor and final to Disk/paper Media) sequentially according to input order.
2-10) SYMBOLIC notation, NUMERICAL notation or MIXED notation FREELY.
The Program adapts a technique of the 2D/3D GRID SYSTEM to automatically generate NODE NOTATIONS that clearly indicate the LOCATIONS according to NODE coordinate values. Thus, you can LOOK at a NODE INPUT LINE and TELL ITS CORRECTNESS for a complex structure. This is unmatched by others that use a NUMBER or a random NOTATION, to denote a NODE, which creates confusing for a large structure with a lot of NODES.
2-11) Automatic default conversion for conventional system, such as length unit, loading coordinate system.
2-12) Tables and DATA storage capability, such as AISC DATA BASE, for future use.
2-13) Optput to proper valid medium and to 8.5x11 size paper.
2-14) CONCISE and COMPLETE user input guide.

(3) ONE CYCLE INPUT-OUTPUTsmall task to SUPERSEDE ALL OTHERS; A LOT OF CYCLES of INUPT-OUTPUT-STUDYOUTPUT big job:

3-1) INPUT ONCE and OUTPUT ONCE to COMPLETE ALL ANALYSES with A-LOT-OF load cases(say; 60) including non-linear structure load combinations (Say; 1.4 DL + 1.7 LL + 1.33 WL) for all cases below to SAVE YOU A LOT OF CYCLES of TIME you would, otherwise, spend on inputs, outputs, output studies and re-inputs:
3-2) Geometric non-linearity with SMALL/BIG Displacement.
3-3) Material non-linearity. (poly-linear strain-vs-stress curve)
3-4) Tension-only member with EULER critical buckling load (a small none zero compression) auto-computation for economic/precise analysis and design. (An unpublished theoretical BREAK-THROUGH in finite element theory since 1970 (Ads on ENR per week for about a year) with FORERUNNER Program Universal Truss Program;UTP.)
(UTP copy righted documents available since March 1971 at U S Library of Congress.) (Class A Registration No. 233684, 233685, 718595, 734705, 761877 and 859966.)
3-5) Pre-scribed member forces capability; such as initial guy tension.
3-6) Compression-only member with small amount of reversed tension.(plain concrete)
3-7) Member pre-strain in conjunction with 3-2) through 3-6).
3-8) Output in both Joint (Global if NO Oblique Joint) and Element Local Coordinate Systems for checking/post process.

3-9) Analysis as a Powerful Tool for:

  1. All 3-D TOWERS with a lot of tension-only members and many OBLIQUE PLANAR JOINTS (a joint with all members in oblique plane) under a lot of load cases and load combinations.
    (CAEinc believes this capability for a big tower shall be about SEVERAL HUNDRED TIMES more powerful than STAAD before it was born.)
    NOTE: A college sophomore/junior student (No high power theory needed) can check it based on: (Analogy: A person who does not have technology to manufacture a car can verify the features of different kinds of cars for comparison.)

    1. JOINT STATIC EQUILIBRIUM (From Joint Coordinate OUTPUT)
    2. STRAIN vs STRESS COMPATIBILITY of A TENSION-ONLY MEMBER
      a) STRAIN:
      • From Original Input, you get original length.
      • From Joint(Global) Coordinate OUTPUT, you get Joint Displacements and strained length.
      b) FORCE: From Element Local Coordinate OUTPUT.
      c) CHECK:
      • TENSION: It follows HOOK's LAW.
        (Were it a poly-linear tension, it would follow strain-vs-stress curve -- Another powerful capabillity beyond normal Civil Structures.)
      • COMPRESSION: It follows HOOK's LAW up to Euler critical buckling load.
        (Correct, Precise and Economical; unmatched by others)

  2. Non-linear cable truss systems.
  3. Non-linear Sagging Cables. ( vs NO-SUCH-CAPABILITY of STAAD.)
  4. Big Displacement non-linear guyed towers.
  5. Non-linear suspension bridges.
  6. Cable-stayed girders.
  7. Cable roof.
  8. Sky scraper foundation SOIL as compression-only to resist lateral loads to reduce amount of piles.

4) TECHNOLOGICAL SUPREMACY:

4-1) The only one currently as fore runner for REMOTE DIAL-UP SERVICES that are capable of rapid visual SCREEN MESH/DATA generation from afar to do graphic-and-text real time interactive data input-preparation, analysis and design.
4-2) Practically unlimited HIGH CAPACITY on big P C under WINDOWS 95/98/NT and even under MSDOS with automatic switch to DOS EXTENDER.
4-3) Flexible (essentially ONE-SIZE-FIT-ALL) to fit into any smaller machine (8 MEG of RAM or so and up) with the machine size (DYNAMIC RAM) that a user can define at run-time.
5) AUTO-GENERATION on WEIGHT load and TEMPERATURE load for ALL elements in either GLOBAL or LOCAL COORDINATE SYSTEM plus any multiplication load factor of them in any direction.
6) GLOBAL and/or LOCAL coordinate system INPUT and/or OUTPUT capability to further save man power.

7) Powerful loading capabilities-
such as weight, temperature, pre-strain and fixed-end loads as follows:

7-1) Full span or partial span with FRactional or Actual distance.
7-2) Uniform, Varying linearly and/or Concentrated.
7-3) GLObal direction or LOCal direction.
7-4) Automatic joint load generation for TRUSS MEMBER LOAD.
7-5) No limitation of number of loads, joints and members ABSOLUTELY.
7-6) Accumulative loading capability for repeated input.
7-7) Combination of 7-1) through 7-6) to handle complex loading.
7-8) Convenient default to most likely situation.
8) ALL OBLIQUE SUPPORTS, (support) joint movement and OBLIQUE LOCAL JOINTS plus ONE-WAY SUPPORTS and SUPPORTS with GAPS in any directions.
9) Simplified Element library with wide application, such as SHEAR WALL element, one-way support element, gap element, ONE-way element, etc.
10) Output ready for post process analysis.

11) INTEGRATED COMPLETE DESIGN ANALYSIS:

LATEST UBC(1994), AISC(9th Edition) and AASHTO(1996) Specifications for all steel members.

UBC(1994) CODE: CHAPTER 22, DIVISION IX (SI and British Systems) (AISC CODE; similar)
CHAPTERS A, B, C and D
CHAPTER E, COLUMNS AND OTHER COMPRESSION MEMBERS
  • Automatic determination of Allowable Stress and all other Parameters.
  • Option to have manual input to overwite computer automatic determination.
CHAPTER F, BEAMS AND OTEHER FLEXURAL MEMBERS
  • Strong Axis Bending and/or Weak Axis Bending
  • Automatic determination of Allowable Stresses and all other Parameters.
  • Option to have manual input to overwite computer automatic determination.
CHAPTER H, COMBINED STRESSES
  • Complete computer automatic determination of ruling provisions:
  • (H1-1),(H1-2),(H1-3) or (H2-1) along with all related Parameters.
  • Option to have manual input to overwite computer automatic determination.
  • Data file input templates.
  • Choosing all elements or selected elements options.
  • Concise and/or detailed output option.
  • ALL TEXT (ASCII) FILES (NOT to LOCK you in.)

AASHTO(1996) CODE: DIVISION I, Part C, SERVICE LOAD DESIGN METHOD
  • TABLE 10.32.1A Allowable Stresses.
  • Fa and/or Fb automatic determination or manual input to overwrite it.
  • Article 10.36 COMBINED STRESSES.
  • FORMULI (10-42) through (10-44) auto-computation.
  • Concise and/or detailed output option.

COMPOSITE DESIGN:

UBC CODE: (AISC CODE; same)
CHAPTER I, COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION
  • ALL COMPLETE with (I4-1) through (I4-5), (I5-1) and (I5-2).
  • SHored and/or UNshored
  • Full Composite, Partial Composite Plus Non-composite
  • Perpendicular and Parallel rib decks.
  • Shear Connector Reduction due to Partial Composite for economy.
  • Complete Connector spacing/distribution calculation.
  • Alternative separate analysis and design for a simple beam.
  • Evaluation at all critical points for all above.
  • (center and all concentrated loads points)
  • Concise and/or detail output options.

12) DYNAMIC ANALYSIS.
(linear, USP-linearized and some non-linear by USPSAP2002 and SUPER ETABS2004)

13) VERIFIED STATISTICAL WARRANTY:

13-1) Vendor provides sufficient number of real runs and/or test runs
to guarantee the correctness of the Program capability.
13-2) As a prior condition to license with additional statistical warranty,
a licensee:
  • 13-2-1) is encouraged to provide input data to run for outputs; such as previous input data from Caeinc competitors, particularly those data with bad/doubtful outputs,
  • 13-2-2) may request more real/test input data and run results.

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