Midas Civil special load and design utilities are the analysis-reference workflows that sit around the core FE solve: support-settlement combinations, before/after composite-section analysis, unknown-load optimization, arbitrary-shape column design, and wave-load generation.
How It Works
Support settlement auto-consideration generates settlement cases or combinations. Steel composite section before/after composite analysis changes section stiffness as composite action develops. Unknown load solution uses optimization to identify loads that satisfy target responses. Arbitrary-shape column design includes moment magnification, long-column effects, braced/unbraced classification, 3D P-M interaction, and shear design. Wave load generation includes offshore member wave forces and wave theories such as Airy, Stokes, stream function, cnoidal, and solitary waves.
Solver Development Notes
Some production features are model generators or postprocessors rather than new FE equations.
Optimization-based load identification needs a clear objective, constraints, design variables, and verification against the recovered target response.
Design utilities require traceable mapping from FE force output to code-check quantities.
Wave and settlement generators should be tested at the load-vector/envelope level before full-structure tests.
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