PRO_SAP | Core
A comprehensive finite element environment for the analysis and design of civil engineering structures.
It supports advanced modeling via CAD and BIM integration, linear static and dynamic analyses, and targeted nonlinear behavior for tension-only (e.g., bracing) and compression-only members (e.g., contact simulation), including buckling analysis.
Design and verify reinforced concrete, steel, masonry, and timber structures
Including steel connections and timber connections, geotechnical checks, and the automatic generation of reinforced concrete construction drawings.
It also incorporate tools for the assessment and strengthening of existing structures, such as steel or RC jacketing and FRP/FRCM systems.
PRO_SAP Core offers robust, all-purpose structural analysis and design for everyday engineering practice.
Modeling and Static Analysis of Structures
Allows modeling and static analysis of structures with beams, columns, slabs, walls, shells, and solid elements, supporting various material types. It integrates linear static seismic analysis and automatically generates the calculation report and maintenance plan.
Structural Modeling
Manages a wide range of structural components: including columns, membranes, walls, shells, solids, slabs, beams, footings, foundation mats, and piles.
Fully standalone workspace with an intuitive interface similar to standard CAD software.
Seamless interoperability: import DXF files directly from any CAD platform.
BIM Technology
Advanced BIM Integration: full management of IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) files, including seamless import, synchronization, and export.
Automated Workflow: intelligent conversion of IFC geometries into native structural elements.
Seamless Interoperability: export calculation models in IFC format for effortless integration with 3D CAD and architectural software.
Automatic Meshing
Advanced Automatic Meshing: generates high-quality meshes for slabs and walls, ensuring seamless connectivity across all selected nodes.
Extensive Material Library: full support for reinforced concrete, steel, masonry, and timber from the built-in archive.
Custom Material Definitions: flexibility to define and analyze non-standard materials, such as aluminum and glass.
Static and Seismic Analysis
Linear analysis with result checking in terms of displacements, stresses, and forces.
Calculation of the theta coefficient for evaluating second-order effects according to the p-delta method.
Linear static seismic analysis according to Italian and European standards or with a generic design spectrum.
Calculation Report and Maintenance Plan
Generation of the calculation report with Microsoft Word, Open Office, or the PRO_SAP word processor.
Software for the maintenance plan included.
Design and verification of Reinforced Concrete Structures
Comprehensive solution for the design and verification of new and existing RC buildings. It automatically generates detailed technical reports, ensuring full regulatory compliance and high engineering efficiency through automated optimization tools.
Standards and Calculation Methods
Design Methodologies: Full support for Ultimate Limit State (ULS), Serviceability Limit State (SLS), and Allowable Stress Design (ASD).
Regulatory Compliance: Fully compatible with NTC 2018 (Italy), Eurocodes, and legacy standards like DM ’96.
Existing Building Assessment: Specialized features for the simulated design of structures based on historical building codes.
Design of New Buildings
Seismic Design: Designs beams and columns according to Capacity Design principles (both DC “A” and DC “B”) or non-dissipative criteria.
Foundation Systems: Automated design of piles, footings, beams, and mats, accounting for regulatory stress increases.
Structural Components: Advanced design of ductile shear walls, lightly reinforced tall walls, and floor/foundation slabs.
Existing Building Assessment & Retrofitting
Reinforcement Mapping: Assigns and verifies existing reinforcement for beams, columns, walls, and slabs via customizable reinforcement schemes.
Seismic Verification: Analysis using the elastic spectrum method (q=1) or the design spectrum method (q≥1.5).
Simulated Design: Estimation tools for unknown reinforcement layouts.
Strengthening Interventions: Definition and verification of structural retrofitting using RC jacketing.
Design and verification of Strength and Stability of Steel Elements
Allows for the design and structural verification of the strength and stability of steel beams, columns, and members. The module supports both new and existing buildings, automatically generating detailed calculation reports while ensuring full regulatory compliance and analytical accuracy.
Verification methods
Implements advanced calculation methodologies, including Ultimate Limit State (ULS), Serviceability Limit State (SLS), and Allowable Stress Design (ASD). It ensures full compliance with standards selected by the user, such as NTC 2018, Eurocodes, or CNR 10011.
Sections and Custom Profiles
Verifies both simple and composite steel profiles. The library is fully extensible, allowing users to import custom geometries by adding drawings to the section archive or by using the PRO_CL4 module for generic profiles.
Design Approaches
For new structures, the software supports two distinct seismic design approaches: non-dissipative and dissipative buildings with full Capacity Design (DC “A” and DC “B”).
Existing Building Assessment
Provides specialized tools for the structural verification of existing steel buildings using the design spectrum method (q=1.5).
Strengthening and Retrofitting
Enables the design of strengthening interventions for existing reinforced concrete buildings through specialized steel jacketing systems.
Scaffolding Design
Includes functionality for the structural calculation of scaffolding: geometry modeling, load definition, FEM analysis, and checking of steel elements. Defining boundary conditions, load cases, Scaffolding Use, Assembly, and Dismantling Plan remain the sole responsibility of the engineer.
Dynamic Seismic Analysis and Structural Stability
Enables advanced modal and response spectrum analyses for a precise evaluation of seismic behavior. It provides high reliability in structural stability assessment (buckling) and offers exceptional versatility for buildings equipped with seismic isolators and dampers.
Dynamic Seismic Analysis
Modal Analysis: Automated calculation of structural frequencies and corresponding vibration modes.
Frequency Range Search: Targeted search for lower frequencies or within specific user-defined ranges.
Advanced Algorithms: High-performance solver using a hybrid Lanczos – Subspace Iteration algorithm.
LDRV Method: Optimized seismic analysis via the Load-Dependent Ritz Vector (LDRV) method as an alternative to traditional eigenvectors.
Stability Analysis (buckling)
Load Multipliers: Calculation of critical load multipliers and their associated buckling modes (deformed shapes).
Global Stability: Comprehensive search for lower buckling factors to identify potential structural weaknesses.
Energy Calculation and Damping
Modal Energy Damping: Precision definition of building damping coefficients through detailed modal energy calculations.
Seismic Isolation: Advanced verification of structures equipped with seismic isolators through dynamic time-history or spectrum analysis.
Automated Construction Drawings for RC Elements
A comprehensive solution for the automatic generation of detailed construction drawings for beams, columns, walls, shear walls, slabs, staircases, cores, and foundation systems. This module integrates seamlessly with other PRO_SAP modules to ensure a streamlined, error-free workflow from structural analysis to final site documentation.
Production of Construction Drawings
Comprehensive Detailing: Automated creation of technical drawings for all reinforced concrete elements, including beams, columns, shear walls, slabs, foundation mats, floor frameworks, piles, footings, and cores.
Integrated Workflow: Drawings are directly generated from the reinforcement data calculated within PRO_SAP, ensuring perfect consistency between the model and the final output.
Real-Time Customization: Advanced tools for manual reinforcement adjustments with real-time compliance checks for strength, deformability, and Capacity Design requirements.
Design, Drawing, and Calculation Report for Foundations
Detailed Documentation: Complete design, drafting, and technical reporting for footings, micropiles, and foundation piles.
Safety Verification: Rigorous foundation checks to ensure the safety of the structure in accordance with current building codes.
Design and Verification of Steel Connections and Joints
An advanced solution for the comprehensive management of steel connections, including tension-only and compression-only members. It ensures high-performance handling of a large number of nodes, full regulatory compliance with Italian and international standards, and maximum efficiency through the simultaneous design of similar joints. The module automatically generates detailed construction drawings (.dxf) and complete calculation reports.
Advanced Joint Management
Extensive Library: Access to a continuously expanding gallery of steel connections, including base plates, beam-column nodes, continuity joints, beam-beam nodes, and both bolted and welded joinery.
Regulatory Compliance: Design and verification according to NTC 2018 (Italy), CNR 10011, and Eurocodes.
Ductility and Performance: Full consideration of Capacity Design (hierarchy of resistances) and the ability to design full-strength (full-recovery) joints.
Node Generation and Export
Standalone or Integrated: Nodes can be generated autonomously or exported directly from a PRO_SAP model with automatic transfer of geometries, materials, releases, and internal forces.
Grouping and Efficiency: Intelligent grouping and simultaneous design of similar nodes to optimize the engineering workflow.
Bolted and Welded Joinery
Profile Support: Comprehensive support for single or coupled profiles, including circular (CHS), square (SHS), and rectangular (RHS) hollow sections.
Versatile Base Plates: Management of base plates for I-beams (double T), and customizable tubular profiles.
Structural Nodes: Management of beam-column, beam-beam, and continuity joints using I-beams, tubular, L, or UPN profiles for both main members and bracing.
Total Customization: Granular control over bolting geometries, stiffeners, and plate dimensions, supported by detailed automated checks.
Non-Linear Members: Tension and Compression Rods
Tension-Only Rods: Ideal for modeling steel bracing systems; the software automatically considers only the active tension members for each load combination.
Compression-Only Rods: Essential for bridge supports or base plates with unidirectional constraints; the system allows the structure to lift in traction zones, considering only compressed members per combination.
Verification of Masonry and Wood With Connection Project
Comprehensive solution for the structural verification of new and existing masonry buildings and the management of wooden elements. By implementing Limit State Design (LSD) and Allowable Stress Design (ASD) methods, the module ensures structural safety and operational efficiency for both restorations and new constructions. It includes specialized tools for wall openings (cerchiature) and timber-concrete composite slabs with connectors.
Masonry Building Verification
Plate-Shell Modeling: Advanced analysis using D3 elements (plate-shell) to determine integrated stresses and macro-actions.
Equivalent Frame Models: Linear analysis for structures modeled via the equivalent frame approach.
Local Kinematic Analysis: Integrated use of PRO_CINEm for the calculation of linear kinematics in masonry structures.
Regulatory Compliance: Fully compliant with NTC 2018 (Italy), D.M. 87, and Eurocode 6.
Design and Verification of Wooden Elements
Methodologies: Precise verification using ULS, SLS, and ASD in accordance with NTC 2018, Eurocode 5, and Règles standards.
Timber-Concrete Slabs: Implementation and optimization of connectors for composite timber-concrete slabs to ensure maximum structural performance.
Wall Reinforcement: Dedicated features for the design of steel or RC openings (cerchiature) in existing masonry walls.
Advanced Structural Functionalities
Integrated Analysis: Simultaneous verification of masonry structures and wooden elements within the same project.
Timber Connections: Detailed calculation and design of the primary timber-to-timber and timber-to-steel nodes.
Geotechnical Checks and Lift Calculation for Foundations
Enables advanced geotechnical analysis and automated calculation of soil-structure interaction constants for both shallow and deep foundations. The module evaluates the bearing capacity and settlement of piles and micropiles and calculates lateral earth pressure under static or seismic conditions for underground structures. It ensures full integration of interaction constants into the structural model in compliance with national and international geotechnical standards.
Soil-Structure Interaction (Winkler Constants)
Soil Stratigraphy: Defines detailed soil profiles and assigns differentiated stratigraphies to various areas of the structure.
Automated Calculation: Automatically determines soil-structure interaction constants for footings, beams, mats, piles, and micropiles based on the defined soil properties.
Bearing Capacity and Settlement Analysis
Comprehensive Calculations: Provides detailed analysis of bearing capacity and settlement for shallow and deep foundations, accounting for structural loads and current regulations such as NTC 2018.
Lateral Earth Pressure: Evaluates ground thrust and soil interaction for foundation elements and underground structures.
Geotechnical Reporting
Automated Documentation: Automatically generates a comprehensive geotechnical report based on input data and analysis results, streamlining the final documentation process.
Core
Purchase Options
LT VERSION
€ 1.999
12-month
(free for the first year)
€ 319
PR VERSION
€ 4.899
12-month
(free for the first year)
€ 649
Annual Subscription
LT VERSION
€ 699
Provides full functionality with a 750-node limit, ideal for small-scale projects or beginners.
REQUEST A QUOTEPR VERSION
€ 1.599
Allows the analysis of structures with no limit on nodes or geometric complexity, offering maximum design freedom.
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