Description
Structural design and analysis software
| GSA Analysis | GSA Building | GSA Bridge | GSA Suite | ||
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Text, graphical and automatic creation of geometry and loads |
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| 2D and 3D Elements | |||||
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Covers all element types in GSA such as 1D, 2D, 3D, and spring elements. |
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| Linear and Nonlinear Static Analysis | |||||
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Compression-only struts, tension-only ties, non-linear springs, and cable |
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| Linear and Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis | |||||
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Analyse for geometric and material non-linearity over large deflections |
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| Non-linear Materials | |||||
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Elastic-Orthotropic and Elastic-Plastic Isotropic materials |
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| Linear Analysis | |||||
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1st order static analysis |
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| Staged Analysis | |||||
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Add, remove, and change elements and constraints within analyses |
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| P-Delta Analysis | |||||
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Analyse for the changes in stiffness caused by load |
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| Dynamic Analysis & Response | |||||
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Modal and Ritz analysis, including P-Delta effects with Seismic, Harmonic, Linear Timer History, and Periodic analyses |
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| Buckling Analysis | |||||
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Modal buckling of 1D & 2D elements, Non-linear buckling of 1D elements |
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| Wave Loading | |||||
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Generate wave and current loads on submerged structures |
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| Raft Analysis | |||||
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Combine structural models with non-linear soil for foundation design |
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| Bridge Loading | |||||
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Lane and vehicle load optimisation for highway and railway bridges |
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| Footfall Analysis | |||||
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Calculate accelerations, velocities and response factors from pedestrian loading |
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| RC Design | |||||
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Design of reinforced concrete slabs and walls to international standard |
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| Steel Design | |||||
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Design of steel beams, columns, and braces to international design codes |
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| Form-finding | |||||
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Geometry generation for tension and compression only structures |
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| Fabric Analysis | |||||
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Analysis of fabric non-linear materials |
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Perform day to day analysis and solve complex engineering problems
From beams to tall buildings, from simple structures to the most complex, GSA Analysis is the structural engineering analysis program to help solve engineering problems.
With this software, you can efficiently and effectively carry out 3D linear, P-delta, non-linear static analysis and much more. You can also carry out Modal and Ritz vibration analysis with or without the stiffening effects of loads, including seismic and time-history assessment. GSA Analysis also includes soil-structure interaction using either Oasys Pdisp engine or 3D soil brick elements.
How GSA Analysis Works
Input: Create structural finite element analysis models using CAD and BIM links, directly in the table or graphical views, or using your own scripts via the Application Programming Interface. Assign linear and nonlinear materials to a variety of element types, whether beams from catalogues, standard shapes, profiled slabs, or your own special requirements. Add static, dynamic, prestress, or thermal loads and analyse the effect. Additionally, you can export from Revit to GSA Analysis and update Revit from your GSA Analysis models. You can even create new Revit models from GSA.
Analysis: GSA includes several solvers, including:
- Matrix-based stiffness method for static and p-delta analyses
- Dynamic relaxation and explicit solvers for nonlinear static and dynamic problems
- Eigenvector solvers for modal vibration and buckling analyses
- Dynamic response analyses for seismic response spectrum or time history, plus harmonic and periodic vibrations
- Soil structure interaction for rafts and piled structures
- Diagnostic analyses for resolving modelling problems
Output: Output forces, moments, deformed geometry, and other results in graphical views, tables, and graphs. Export analysis models to LS DYNA, model changes to Revit, or text and numbers to Office documents.</
Key Features & Benefits
- Produce fast and accurate results from the simplest beam to the most complex building, all within the one environment
- Work with 0, 1, 2, & 3D elements to model just what you need to analyse
- Integration with Autodesk’s Revit Structure and other BIM software will ensure high integrity of model transfer and accurate model coordination
- Analyses include Linear and Nonlinear Static, Dynamic, and Buckling analyses, plus Dynamic Response, Soil-Structure Interaction, and Analysis stages
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Capabilities of GSA Analysis
Redesigned and streamlined user interface – Quick access to popular tasks with customisable panes and toolbars.
New beam section – Improve interoperability by allowing you to define any section once and then being able to reuse it within any Oasys software program.
New Beam Section
Materials – Define design grade materials at the analysis and model building stage. Build user-defined materials.
Grid loading – Work with 1D or 2D elements, allowing patch, line, and bridge loads on meshes.
IFC import & export with GsRevit – Interchange data between a variety of BIM friendly platforms with GSA 9.0’s new IFC import and export. As well as new Revit integrations allowing you to map entities with ease.
IFC model imported into GSA
Explicit solver – A new analysis solver for dealing with short time-span, high frequency dynamic non-linear situations has been implemented along with improved load curves functionality.
Seismic analysis – New advanced seismic analysis features include response spectrum analysis with improved display, tools and combinations.
3D solid elements & soil structure interaction – Now includes 3D solid (brick) elements allowing a wide range of structural properties to be simulated. New Contact and Damper element types have been introduced to model dynamic problems such as modelling contact between different elements.
Brick Element: Diagram – Surface Contour – Filled Contour
Raft Analysis – The Raft Analysis feature is now available in all GSA variations. This analysis type is perfect for busy foundation designers. This easy-to-use feature combines non-linear structural and geotechnical models to calculate accurate settlements, soil pressures, bending moments and other structural stresses in a fraction of the time.
Design improvements – Design materials have improved functionality and create more consistent models.
Steel member design – Improved member design that provides analysis releases along with in-depth functionality options with instant results in report view.
Steel Design
Member libraries
New chart views, reporting and graphics – In addition to the instant report view results, chart view functionality is improved with easy updating and exporting of curves. Graphics have been improved making your 3D model and 2d graphic look even better.
New Chart Views
Improved Graphics
API improvements – New features include direct objects for Members that lead to faster access and productive code development, expansion of existing objects, and the ability to run automated design from the API using the new Design Task functionality.
Nonlinear analysis
Analyse structures with large and very large deflections, plastic yielding of materials, snap-through, sway effects, and more. GSA Analysis uses the dynamic relaxation method to analyse structures that are too large and complex for other programmes.
Buckling analysis
GSA Analysis enables you to calculate the buckling load factors on a range of structures, from complex frames to shell structures and lateral torsional buckling of plate girders. It also includes non-linear buckling effects so you can plot the deflections of columns and struts against load to accurately assess safety factors.
Dynamic analysis and response
GSA Analysis includes both modal analysis for calculation of the natural frequencies of your structure and Ritz analysis specially designed for seismic response calculations. You can choose to include axial load effects to change stiffnesses in both these methods.
Following on from the modal or Ritz analysis, GSA Analysis enables you to calculate the structural response using a number of dynamic post processors, including seismic response to multiple international codes, linear time history, harmonic loads for vibrating machinery, and more.
Stages
With staged analysis you can assess the model at any stage in construction, remove elements, and change sections and restraints, coordinated in a single model.
P-delta Analysis
- Static P-delta (p-delta by own load case, different load case, or previous analysis case)
- Non-linear static
- Dynamic analysis
- Modal
- Modal P-delta
- Ritz
- Ritz P-delta
GSA offers a wide range of structural analysis types
- Static analysis
- Linear Static
- Static P-delta (p-delta by own load case, different load case, or previous analysis case)
- Non-linear static
- Dynamic analysis
- Modal
- Modal P-delta
- Ritz
- Ritz P-delta
- Dynamic Response
- Response spectrum
- Harmonic
- Linear Time History
- Footfall
- Buckling
- Modal / eigenvalue
- Non-linear member buckling
- Mass analysis
- Form Finding
- Analysis envelope
- Model stability diagnostic analysis
Analysis features:
- Wizards to guide users in setting up data and analyses
- Solution methods
- Sparse Direct & Sparse Parallel Direct
- Conjugate Gradient
- Active column
- Dynamic relaxation
- 2D skeletal frame and grid analysis
- 3D skeletal frame and shell structural analysis
- Non-linear
- Strut and tie elements, fabric elements
- Materials
- Load increments
- Analysis in construction stages
- Two dimensional and axisymmetric analysis
- Large capacity
- Efficient and stable solution algorithms
- Analysis of applied load, applied displacements and settlements
- Export of data to other analysis programs
- Selective storage of results
- Element pre-load by prestress for initial p-delta effects
Analysis stage specification:
- included elements per stage
- element properties per stage
- constraints per stage
When an analysis is requested the data are checked for inter-module consistency. If errors are detected, a report is prepared and the program returns to the data editing options; if not, the program proceeds with the analysis with progress being reported to the screen throughout
Analysis control
- analysis is specified and controlled by analysis tasks
- default analysis task is set up automatically for typical analysis: linear static analysis of all load cases
- explicitly defined analysis tasks are defined via the analysis wizard
- pre-analysis data checks check for inter-module consistency, reporting to the report view
- report view messages link to related data
- pre-analysis checks can be invoked explicitly
- several analysis tasks can be queued for batch analysis
Case control
- Load cases
- load container
- Analysis cases
- result container
- may be described in terms of compound load cases
- Combination cases
- described in terms of compound analysis cases
- descriptions may reference other combinations
- results calculated for combination cases on-the-fly
- Enveloping
- described as a special combination case
- analysis envelopes enable enveloped results to be stored
Overview
GSA combines GSA structural model with a 3D brick or Pdisp soil model to calculate the soil structure interaction.
- Direct finite element analysis using brick elements and friction spring interaction elements
- Iterative analysis using the GSA and Pdisp solvers (does not need the installation of Pdisp)
- Specify soil properties and locations
- Specify soil-structure geometry
- Raft & Pile soil structure interaction
Find how your structure interacts with the ground for the optimum foundation design
Raft is perfect for busy foundation designers. This easy-to-use software combines non-linear structural and geotechnical models to calculate accurate settlements, soil pressures, bending moments and other structural stresses in a fraction of the time.
Features
- Multiple soil profiles
- Multiple soil zones
- Linear or nonlinear soils
- Pile soil interaction coefficients (p-y, t-z, q-z)
- Additional soil loads
- Pdisp import/export
Overview
For regular structures, a Data Generation wizard will allow the user to specify the structure in terms of few key parameters and automatically generate the model data. For more complex structures structural geometry and loading data may be input through either the graphical data generator (“Sculpt”) or a more traditional spreadsheet format
Sculpt enables all structural geometry to be rapidly generated and edited on the screen using a cursor controlled by a mouse. Dynamic viewing makes it possible to adjust the model as required
When the structure is complete, all loading may be similarly generated and displayed diagrammatically. Structures of complexity varying from simple to large skeletal frame models can be generated and complex 2D element meshes can be generated using the automatic mesh generation facilities
The alternative spreadsheet method incorporates many useful features for the generation and copying of numerical data. Text input is normally specified by selection from a list of available items rather than by entering numeric codes.
The API enables GSA to be driven from a spreadsheet macro or other external program. In addition, the command line interface enables GSA to be driven from batch files.
GSA includes a bi-directional link between GSA & Revit 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019, Revit Structure 2013 & Revit Structure 2012. With this Revit users can transfer model information between Revit and GSA with minimal loss of data.
Data from tables can be transferred to and from spreadsheets using the standard cut and paste facilities. The GWA file (ASCII data file) is written as a tab-separated file to facilitate input into spreadsheet programs
Import options
- IFC
- AutoCAD DWG / DXF
- CIMsteel CIS/1
- Revit Structure (see below)
- Pdisp
Export options
- ADC
- ASAS
- AutoCAD DWG / DXF
- CIMsteel CIS/1
- LS-DYNA
- NASTRAN
- OpenSees
- Revit Structure
- SAP2000
- Steel Member CSV
- Pdisp
Following several requests from customers we have developed a small utility to allow those customers who have multiple variants of GSA shared licences to easily swap between them.
- This document refers to the utility installed with GSA version 9.0. For any earlier version, please contact us for details.
- Activate one of your GSA keys as follows
- Open GSA
- From the ‘Help’ menu choose ‘About GSA’
- Click on ‘Manage License’
- Click ‘Activate’
- Enter the License Key & Password for the first variant of GSA that you have
- You do not need to repeat these steps for the other variants of GSA that you have as GSA will find these in the License Database
- Close the program
- When you next open the program, the variant that opens will be the one that you activated the key for last.
- To change the variant you wish to open, close GSA and run Oasys Key Switcher
(Closing GSA is important to stop activations becoming locked on your machine). The Switch Keys utility won’t open if you are already running GSA 9.0.
- For Windows 7 you can run Oasys Key Switcher from ‘Start > All Programs > Oasys GSA > Oasys Key Switcher
- For Windows 8 and 10 you can find Oasys Key Switcher on your ‘Apps’ screen
5. Select the variant you wish to run and then open GSA. Each time you open GSA after this, it will run the last activated variant until you run Oasys Key Switcher again and select another variant.
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GSA Building is part of the Oasys General Structural Engineering suite and combines steel and concrete design, footfall, and soil-structure interaction analysis in the same building design software package. With this intuitive software, you can design structural models with skeletal frames and two-dimensional finite elements, enabling you to design and analyse even the most complex buildings.
Find out more »GSA Bridge
The perfect tool for busy bridge designers, GSA Bridge automates the optimisation of bridge loads (such as vehicle and lane loading) to a variety of international codes and checks for pedestrian footfall vibration. With a wide range of structural analysis types and 3D and 2D graphics for post-processing, bridge design analysis has never been easier.
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GSA Analysis is used around the globe on all manner of projects. It provides engineers with a highly intuitive nonlinear analysis software tool to help realise the potential of design, no matter the challenges.
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Network Floating International licenses can be activated on any number of machines, however you can only concurrently use the number of licences that you have purchased. Ideal for users requiring more flexibility or when working as part of a global team. Eligible for deployment world-wide at the Licensees leisure.
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Both Subscription options will allow you the right to use the software for the defined term, with the full maintenance and support service included for the duration. The price will be fixed for the duration of the agreed term after which it will automatically renew for the same duration at the then current price.
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