IDEA StatiCa for Process and Industrial Facilities

Process & industrial facilities usually have a high volume of non-standard connections that do not match recommended topologies by codes or design guides. They also contain simpler connections that must be optimized and standardized for efficient fabrication and assembly.

Dealing with these connections is challenging and requires thorough design and assessment.

With IDEA StatiCa, you can visualize complex connections in 3D and design them with confidence for onshore facilities, including:

• Refineries and process plants
• Warehouses
• Tank farms / storage facilities
• Pipe racks and piping support structures
• Compressor and pump stations
• Drilling rig substructures and well pads
• And more

Delegated design can be painful due to high volumes of data sharing. 

The Engineer of Record (EOR) must provide the connection designer with inputs for connection design. This is usually shared using 2D drawing and PDF documents. The connection designer then manually re-enters the input data, including loads.

With IDEA StatiCa, the engineer of record and connection designer can minimize inefficiencies and errors:

• Transfer nodes & load combinations from global analysis software to IDEA StatiCa via Checkbot
• Design & code-check in IDEA StatiCa Connection
• Share connection files with detailers, fabricators or EORs to view connections in web browser using IDEA StatiCa Viewer or IFC
• Provide clear and traceable reports for all project stakeholders

• Beam-to-column moment and shear connections
• Bracing connections
• Gusset connections
• Base plate connections with anchor bolts and real reinforcement 
• Non-standard supports: equipment bracing, expansion-loop supports, unequal-height transitions

• Haunched beam-to-column moment connections
• Base plate connections with anchor bolts and real reinforcement
• Bracing connections
• Purlin / side-rail connections 
• Crane runway brackets & girder supports

• Design both simple and complex connections
• Design large number of joints efficiently using Checkbot
• Generate reports in from of PDF, Word, and IFC

• Designing structure based on US code but with foreign steel shapes
• Non-standard details such as a column base plate with several stiffeners and two horizontal members and a diagonal bracing member tying into that column, which was anchored to a concrete pedestal
• Interoperability between global analysis software and IDEA StatiCa

• Design all connections considering high vertical loads, complex connection details, and increased seismic requirements
• Import internal forces from global analysis software avoiding transfer errors
• Analyse highly stressed joints and assess stress distributions