I use structural software in Civil Engineering and do not use general purpose FEA such as Ansys, Nastran, Abaqus, Adina. I am more familiar with SAP2000, Risa3D, Visual Analysis etc. The differences in solver speeds between couple of software on the same computer are surprising to me.
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Would anyone care to participate in running (and bench marking the solution time) the following 3D frame structural model using any commercial structural analysis programs available to you? Most of the structural programs have some modeling tools to quickly generate such a...
