Define design combinations in a faster, smarter, and more intuitive way.

Our redesigned Smart Combination workflow separates loadcases into permanent and variable actions, reflecting the way engineers naturally think about loading.  Permanent actions can be assigned beneficial and adverse factors, while variable actions are assigned adverse and combination factors. Users can also specify the maximum number of simultaneous variable actions to include in the combinations.

This dramatically reduces the effort required to define design combinations while ensuring alignment with major design standards, including the Eurocode approach, where a leading variable action is combined with reduced accompanying variable actions.

Updated Design Combinations

The updated Design Code Combinations Library further streamlines the generation of code-compliant combinations.

Support for user-defined combinations has also been added, giving engineers full flexibility and control when project-specific requirements demand it.

Include bonded post-tensioned prestressed members for Eurocode 2 concrete design.

Perform prestressed concrete design checks within a single, consistent workflow. LUSAS provides comprehensive ULS and SLS verification, including:

• Stress limitation
• Crack control
• Shear
• Torsion

All checks are fully aligned with the Eurocode 2, reducing reliance on external tools and minimising manual verification.

Confidently design and assess structures using the most up-to-date code provisions.

The Vehicle Load Optimisation facility has been updated to support the latest AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications (10th Edition).

Version 24 also adds AASHTO 10th to our reinforced concrete frame design capabilities.

Model complex reinforcement layouts for slabs and walls to improve the accuracy of both ULS and SLS assessments across a wider range of reinforced concrete structures.

Our reinforced concrete design tools now support multiple reinforcement layers in the top and bottom of slabs and in each face of walls.