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...
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...
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...
Progressive collapse indicates the partial or total collapse of structures caused by the local damage of structural members arising from an abnormal load. To induce ideal collapse behavior, the progressive collapse is applied to most explosive demolition design for...
This paper studies the performance based vulnerability assessment of midrise masonry structures against seismic activity using Extreme Loading® for Structures (ELS). Abstract: A thorough four-step performance-based seismic evaluation for a six-story unreinforced...
A building is subjected to progressive collapse when a primary vertical structural element fails, resulting in the failure of adjoining structural elements, which cause further structural failure, leading eventually to partial or total collapse of the structure. The...
This paper regarding the use of Extreme Loading® for Structures (ELS) to study progressive collapse was recently published in the proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering held this summer in London, UK. The authors study the effects of infill walls in...
The Journal of American Science, has recently accepted and published a paper entitled, “Computer-Aided Design of Framed Reinforced Concrete Structures Subjected to Flood Scouring.” In the paper, author Hamed Salem, Ph.D., studies the performance reinforced...
