Tutorial File

Description

Launching a New Project

1. Enter project description
2. Adjust Units
3. Adjust first level height
4. Bypass import and mapping

Drafting a new model

1. Draw with shapes and lines
2. Convert to 3D components
3. Check intersection and ensure structural integrity
4. Add dimensions

Inserting Structural Components

1. Draw columns, girders, slabs, walls and windows
2. Create arrays of objects
3. Adjust wall and window height from properties panel

Controlling model from Structure Browser/Components Panel

1. Create new layers
2. Show/Hide layers
3. Move objects from layer to layer
4. Add multiple levels
5. Copy objects from level to level

Controlling Material Properties

1. Create new materials
2. Set default materials
3. Edit existing materials
4. Apply material to selected objects

Creating composite section Column/Girder Style

1. Create girder component
2. Create RFT component
3. Create steel component
4. Define new Composite section style

Creating Slab Styles

1. Different types of slabs that can be created with ELS
2. Create a slab style

Creating Wall Styles

1. Different types of walls that can be created with ELS
2. Create an unreinforced masonry wall
3. Create a reinforced masonry wall

Creating Window Styles

1. Different types of windows that can be created
2. Create a large two frame divided window
3. Control the window from the Properties Panel

1. Create a boxed girder
2. Use the section editor
3. Identify the bounding box

1. Mesh calculator
2. Adjusting multiple components' mesh
3. Mesh elements

1. Adjust General Solving Options for optimum analysis time for blast case
2. Enter blast settings
3. Analyze pressure wave distribution chart for deciding on best analysis settings
4. Insert analysis settings

1. Select elements to apply loads on
2. Create stages
3. Apply displacement control values

This tutorial explains how to prepare a scenario where earthquake loads are imported into ELS and applied to the entire structure.

This tutorial explains how to configure boundary conditions and set an initial velocity to a group of elements. This example shows a short girder flying in the air and impacting a brick wall.

This tutorial explains how to prepare a scenario where a column is removed from a common two dimensional frame to illustrate a basic progressive collapse case.

1. View stress-strain contours
2. View displacement contours

1. Select elements
2. Create charts
3. Navigate charts
4. Add elements to charts
5. Animate charts

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