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The Steel Network has partnered with the most advanced structural design software company in the industry, Applied Science International.  TSN and ASI’s collaboration brings a complete set of structural design and analysis software options for cold-formed steel to all light steel framing design and construction professionals. Click on the logo below to learn more about how each of these programs can help you reduce your liability, while generating accurate design results focused on saving your project time and money.  

SteelSmart® System – Cold-Formed Steel Design Software

SteelSmart® System Cold-Formed Steel Design Software

SteelSmart® System (SSS) provides construction professionals with a structural design software tool engineered for the fast and accurate design of light steel framing studs, shear walls, and connectors. SSS raises the bar for the design of cold formed steel by seamlessly integrating the well-known analytic power of its predecessors with additional functionality and accessibility. The following design software modules are available: 

  • Basic Design Modules: Curtain Wall, Load Bearing Wall, X-Brace Shear Wall, Floor Framing, Roof Framing, Roof Truss, and Moment-Resisting Short Wall.
  • Advanced Design Modules: Lateral Load Generator/Distributor and Layout & Details Generator.

Learn more about SteelSmart System.

SteelSmart® Framer – BIM Steel Framing Plugin for Autodesk® Revit®

SteelSmart® Framer BIM Steel Framing Plugin for Autodesk® Revit®

The SteelSmart® Framer (SSF) provide engineers and contractors with a powerful new tool to better design, estimate, and communicate light steel framing on projects using Revit Building Information Modeling (BIM) software. SSF is a fully integrated 3-D BIM modelling plugin that allows users to:

  • Create wall styles & layouts for standard wall types
  • Easily model every stud, track, shear walls, and connectors
  • Know exact quantities and lengths for all all light steel framing
  • Export complete material take-off to Excel for the whole structure, plus separate panel lists
  • Export panel drawings with panel material lists
  • Export plan layouts

Learn more about SteelSmart Framer.

Extreme Loading® for Structures – Advanced Analysis Software

Extreme Loading® for Structures Structural Analysis Software

Extreme Loading® for Structures Software or ELS, is an advanced non-linear structural analysis software tool designed specifically for structural engineers. ELS allows structural engineers to study the 3D behavior of structures through both the continuum and discrete stages of loading. This includes static and dynamic loads such as those generated by a blast, seismic events, impact, progressive collapse, and the wind. Unlike many structural analysis software tools which are based on the Finite Element Method (FEM), ELS utilizes a non-linear solver based on the Applied Element Method (AEM).

This allows ELS is to automatically analyze structural behavior during elastic and inelastic modes including the automatic yielding of reinforcement, detection, and generation of plastic hinges, buckling & post-buckling, crack propagation, membrane action & P-Delta effect, and separation of elements. The resulting debris and impacts with structural elements are also automatically analyzed and stress redistribution is inherently calculated.  

Learn more about Extreme Loading for Structures.

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