ADINA Joins Structural WorkSuite: Unlocking Advanced Nonlinear and Multiphysics Analysis Featured

Bentley Systems is excited to introduce Structural WorkSuite 2025, a major upgrade to its suite of structural analysis and design tools. This release offers engineers a cost-effective license that includes nearly all Bentley structural applications, streamlining workflows across infrastructure sectors.

Today’s engineers must deliver safe, high-quality designs under tight budgets and schedules. Structural WorkSuite simplifies this challenge by bundling powerful tools like STAAD®, RAM®, and now ADINA, enabling faster, more accurate design processes.

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ADINA Joins Structural WorkSuite: Unlocking Advanced Nonlinear and Multiphysics Analysis

A key highlight of this release is the integration of ADINA, a premier finite element program for solving complex nonlinear problems. Engineers can now access:

• Comprehensive Nonlinear Analysis: Handle geometric and material nonlinearities, large deformations, and contact conditions.
• Multiphysics Simulations: Model thermo-mechanical coupling, fluid-structure interaction, and electromagnetics for deeper insights.
• Advanced Stress Capabilities: Perform static or dynamic analysis using versatile elements and material models.
• STAAD.Pro Integration: Export STAAD.Pro models directly into ADINA for blast analysis using link elements, improving simulation efficiency.

ADINA’s inclusion significantly expands the analytical power of Structural WorkSuite, supporting more complex and demanding projects.

ADINA 2025 Highlights

• User Interface Enhancements: Ribbon menus, scalable icons, command search, dockable windows, and customizable themes.
• New Analysis Capabilities: Explicit Bathe time integration for vibration and wave propagation problems.
• New Element Types: Fiber-beam elements with multi-material cross-sections for flexible modeling.
• Advanced Material Models: Steel uniaxial model capturing cyclic behaviors like strain hardening, hysteresis, and mean stress relaxation.

STAAD.Pro 2025: Enhanced Compliance, Productivity, and Cloud Analysis

STAAD.Pro 2025 introduces updates that improve compliance, productivity, and cloud-based analysis:

• Eurocode 3 Update: Design hot rolled steel structures to EN 1993-1-1 for European compliance.
• Chinese Fire Code (Tech Preview): Verify steel structures against GB51249-2017 for fire safety.
• AI-Powered Assistance: A GPT-based service helps users quickly navigate technical documentation.
• ASCE 7 2022 Wind Loading: Ensure designs meet the latest wind loading standards.
• Bentley Simulation Hub: Perform cloud-based STAAD analysis for faster results.
• Simplified Serviceability: Use PMEMBERS to define serviceability requirements quickly.
• Extended Direct Analysis: Support axial stiffness reduction for Canadian code S16 compliance.
• Efficient Load Combinations: Create Eurocode-compliant load combinations in groups.
• Custom Material Creation: Build custom materials using a new database compatible with profile systems.

These enhancements make STAAD.Pro more flexible and efficient for global design standards. STAAD Foundation Advanced 2025: Comprehensive Foundation Design Solutions.

STAAD Foundation Advanced (SFA) 2025 delivers robust updates for foundation analysis and design:

• Pile Cap Modeling Framework: Comprehensive tools for modeling and analyzing pile caps.
• Design to American Codes: Comply with ACI 318-14 and 19 for pile cap design.
• Design to Indian Codes: Meet IS 456:2000 standards for Indian projects.
• Eurocode 2 for Isolated Footings: Includes national annexes for Singapore and Malaysia.
• Eurocode 2 for Combined Footings: Enhanced compliance and efficiency for regional standards.

These updates empower engineers to deliver reliable, code-compliant foundation designs across diverse geographies.

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The Structural WorkSuite Difference

Structural WorkSuite 2025, with the inclusion of ADINA and updates to STAAD and SFA, solidifies its position as a comprehensive solution for structural engineers. It provides access to a wide array of applications covering everything from finite element analysis to design for multiple materials and foundation types.

The suite offers significant value through:

• Comprehensive Capabilities: Access virtually all STAAD and RAM applications covering analysis, design, detailing, and foundation work.
• Advanced Analysis: Leverage features like nonlinear and multiphysics capabilities from ADINA, plus response spectrum, time history, and pushover analysis.
• Interoperability and Workflow Efficiency: Use tools like iTwin Analytical Synchronizer to exchange data, integrate with Revit and Tekla, and automate workflows via OpenSTAAD API.
• Code Compliance: Ensure designs meet a wide range of international standards.
• Cost-Effectiveness: Manage software and budgets easily with a single, streamlined license.

By leveraging Structural WorkSuite 2025, engineers can simplify complex tasks, optimize designs, and deliver high-quality, compliant structures more efficiently.

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