Extreme Loading^® for Structures - Loading Features

 
Various static and dynamic loading scenarios can be implemented in ELS 3.1 utilizing its multi-stage sequential loading:

• Static Loading: apply concentrated, uniform pressure, displacement, moving, and hydrostatic pressure loads.
• Dynamic Loading: apply concentrated uniform pressure, displacement, moving, seismic, blast, impact, and hydrostatic pressure loads.
• Staged construction and deconstruction: add or remove structural components during analysis.
• Initial velocity and acceleration: apply velocity and/or acceleration to elements or structural component.
• Irregular Boundaries: creates irregular boundary conditions to model natural terrain as set by the user.
• Kill Boundaries: eliminates unwanted debris and decreases simulation time based on “killing” boundary conditions set by the user.
• Rigid Body Regions: easily apply rigid body constraints to any elements inside a specific region in space even if the elements are not yet created.
• Spring Controller: gives users control over the material properties of springs enclosed in any specified region.
• Loading Regions: apply loads to all elements enclosed in a specifically defined region. 
• Linear & Nonlinear Materials Models: for concrete, steel,  aluminum, brick, glass, tension only, and elastic.
• Material Regions: edit the material of all elements enclosed in a certain region.
• Physical Data Conflict Dialogue: automatically detects conflicts in loads and boundary conditions, allowing the user to remove them.
• Custom Run: run the analysis for specific parts of the structure or the whole structure.
• Automatic Backups: automatically creates multiple backups of the results during analysis as set by the user. Analysis can be  resumed from any of the backup files.
• Solver Controller: pause and resume analysis as well as adjust some features of the model during the analysis based on the output.