08/18/2026
🚀 Milestone Update: Our Advanced Section Design Engine is Fully Operational
We are excited to showcase our significantly improved section analyzer. Following rigorous development, this high-fidelity engine for section reinforcement design and capacity investigation is now fully operational.
Here is a look at what makes this engine a step above the rest:
🔹 High-Resolution Discretization & "Twin Points"
To capture the true physical behavior of a structure, each span is densely subdivided into discretization points. Crucially, this meshing automatically generates "twin points" at all locations of geometry discontinuity and critical control points—including tendon anchorages, tendon kinks, and similar structural shifts.
🔹 Robust Non-Linear Iterative Solver
Under the hood, the engine features a powerful, fully iterative non-linear section solver. It is driven by full-fledged stress-strain models for concrete, reinforcing steel, and post-tensioning steel, ensuring a rigorous and physically accurate solution at every single point along the span.
🔹 The High-Fidelity Advantage Over Standard FEM
Standard finite element solutions relying on quadrilateral meshing often hit strict limitations—they tend to smear, approximate, or artificially smooth out geometrical discontinuities. Our high-fidelity approach explicitly captures these model discontinuities without compromise. Furthermore, because the software is capable of handling Timoshenko beam formulation, this solver is exceptionally advantageous for complex applications like the design of deep transfer beams with multiple tendons. For these specialized tasks, it far outperforms traditional slab-based finite element solvers.
🔹 See It In Action
The attached screenshots exemplify the design engine at work on a simple multi-span post-tensioned model.
While this example shows a beam system, these exact same capabilities exist for modeling comprehensive two-way systems with multiple strips (column strips, middle strips, and beam strips).
