Extreme Loading® for Structures Software (ELS) offers a new advanced level of nonlinear dynamic structural analysis, which allows users efficiently to study structural failure from any number of actual or possible extreme events. Unlike traditional FEM software, users...
Protect Against Structural Failure Efficient – Nonlinear Dynamic – Performance Based Design Extreme Loading® for Structures Software (ELS) offers a new advanced level of nonlinear dynamic structural analysis, that allows users efficiently to study structural failure...
Full Structural Model – Advanced Results – Design Optimization Extreme Loading® for Structures Software (ELS) a nonlinear dynamic structural analysis tool, gives users the ideal virtual environment to accelerate the research performed on shake tables, opening...
COST EFFICIENT – 3D SOLID ELEMENT – NONLINEAR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS Extreme Loading® for Structures Software (ELS) is the ideal nonlinear dynamic structural analysis tool to study the behavior of cold-formed steel structures against seismic, wind, progressive collapse, and...
Efficient – Cost Effective – Performance Based Design Extreme Loading® for Structures Software (ELS) is the ideal nonlinear dynamic structural analysis tool to study the behavior of structures due to seismic, wind, progressive collapse, and blast. The tool allows...
This paper investigates the pounding different structural systems during earthquakes and their effects on adjacent buildings. Non-linear dynamic analysis is performed using Extreme Loading® for Structures (ELS) to study the behavior including base shear, bending...
This paper investigates the used of the alternate path method in studying the design of structures to resist progressive collapse using Extreme Loading® for Structures (ELS) and its Applied Element Method (AEM) based solver. Abstract: Although there are numerous...
This paper investigates the effect of time variant coupled uplift forces and lateral blast pressures on the vulnerability of reinforced concrete columns when subjected to internal explosions using Extreme Loading® for Structures (ELS). Abstract: Detailed examination...
Structural identification has continued to develop into a versatile tool for developing high fidelity analytical models of large civil structures that accurately reflect the measured in-service response. The results of successful structural identification have been...
The I-35 Bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota catastrophically failed during the evening rush hour on August 1, 2007, collapsing to the river and riverbanks beneath. In the years prior to the collapse, several reports cited problems with the...
