05-10-2012, 03:29 PM
(05-10-2012, 01:03 PM)ynopum Wrote: ... So, who cares about Midas? Maybe only those with itchy hands to play with something new, and to increase their software collection ....
Speak for yourself dear friend.
As ASEC said, in some things they are way ahead of the most popular programs. One example, in Midas you can plot in an extruded deformed shape the colored contours for whatever force you want, moment, shear, etc., so you can quickly identify which element is taking the most force. (I´m not taking about ploting force diagrams, but normalized force contours for all and every single element in just a single view) In multistorey structures this is an incredible tool to quickly optimize systems/sections.
But there are a lot more: creep analysis, heat of hydration analysis, automatic compensation of them...
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