Dlubal RFEM v5.29

The structural FEA software RFEM for analysis and design of plates, walls, shells, solids, and frame structures is a powerful program for various tasks of modern civil engineering. This program forms the basis of a modular software system: RFEM determines internal forces, deformations, and support reactions of general plate structures with or without member and solid elements.

The program version RFEM 5 provides a wide range of useful features and options for efficient and user-friendly work on your structural analysis projects. At this point, we would like to thank our customers for their valuable ideas and remarks based on real engineering experience.

RFEM 5 includes the following new features amongst others:

• Graphical user interface in Chinese, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
• Direct setting of different opening types
• Member eccentricities from cross-section dimensions
• Diagrams and extended criteria for nonlinear nodal supports and hinges
• Orthotropic properties for quadrangle and membrane surfaces, as well as solids
• Input option for hybrid timber cross-sections
• Filter in cross-section and material libraries including favorites
• Modeling of solids by extruding surfaces with relation to plane or point (with tapered sides as well)
• Intersections of solids using Boolean operators
• Inserting a member on an existing member
• Import of files from Bentley ISM, Ansys Apdl, and Scia Engineer
• Import of 3D objects
• Graphical assignment of member properties
• Color symbols in tables for cross-sections, surfaces, solids, and surface and member types
• Selection with ellipse, circular ring, or intersection line
• Work planes defined by three points or line, member, and surface axes
• Color management for various types of surfaces, stiffnesses, members, and solids
• Entering inclination and precamber in absolute values
• Surface size and weight entries in input table
• Automatic generation of load and result combinations in compliance with the standard requirements
• Gradual FE mesh refinement in edge areas of surfaces
• Large deformation analysis according to Newton-Raphson, Picard, or as dynamic relaxation
• Results of load distribution, distortions, member coefficients, and member slenderness
• Average regions for evaluation of singularities
• User-defined settings for lighting
• Result evaluation via clipping plane
• Views navigator for user-defined and generated visibilities and viewing angles
• Configuration manager for display properties, toolbars, headers of printout reports, etc.
• Mass print of graphics
• Export of printout report in PDF