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A tour of ILX Structures
Model a three-story steel building, load it, run static, modal and response spectrum analysis, design every member and print the report, in under three minutes.
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ILX Structures. 3D structural analysis and design, right in your browser.
Sign in
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The workspace
This is a three-story steel office building. The ribbon holds every tool, from modelling to the report. The model tree lists every node, member, support and load.
Draw on grid lines and story levels, and give the members their sections from the full AISC shape database.
Finite elements
Slabs and walls go in as plates and shells, meshed for you. And when you need them, solids, axisymmetric models and heat flow use the same engine.
Loads
Loads follow ASCE 7-22. Enter the building and the site, and ILX Structures generates the wind, the snow with its drifts, and the seismic forces, with the design values looked up from the site's location. The LRFD and ASD load combinations are made for you.
Analysis
Run the analysis. Heavy runs go to the server as background jobs, with progress and a Cancel button, so you can keep working.
Then read the deformed shape, the force diagrams and the reactions of every load combination.
Dynamic and seismic
Modal analysis gives the periods, the mode shapes and the mass participation. The response spectrum analysis is scaled to the equivalent lateral force base shear, as ASCE 7-22 requires.
Design
Design every steel member to AISC 360-16, and seismic frames to AISC 341-22. Each member is colored by its governing ratio. Open one to see every check, with its combination and its clause.
The optimiser finds the lightest section that works, and nothing changes until you apply it. Concrete, wood and masonry members are designed the same way.
Report
When you are done, print a calculation report you can hand to a reviewer: the model, the loads, the results and the design of every member, with your firm and project on every page.
Hand-off
Send a member's forces straight to ILX Connection to design its connection, or to ILX Calcs for a detailed member calculation.
Verification
Every release passes over 1,000 automated checks: closed-form solutions, textbook benchmarks, published code examples and complete regression models, run on every change. You remain the engineer of record.
Help and support
Help is close at hand: the user manual, step-by-step tutorials, and a support request that reaches us from inside the app.
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