Automated Code Checks

[chris456s]

In ANSYS there is an option in Design Assessment for code checking called BeamST. There is lots of text discussing it in the help. But when I try to use it, ANSYS returns an error that says "script is missing".
I called ANSYS and they said that BEAMST is no long available. They have phased it out but have not replaced it with any other code checking routines.
I have look for similar stuff online and found a few code checking add-ons but none are free. This seems like a simple thing (for someone who knows how to code). Simpler than lots of free stuff that is out there so I would expect this to be free.
I'm not seeing anything in the ACT store.
Does anyone know how to make BeamST work with ANSYS 2019R2 or know of any free code checking add-ons?

 

[Erik Panos Kostson]

Also as Strand7 (another FEA software) is not a code checking tool (e.., like RSTAB,ETABS,...), and more a general FEA package like ANSYS, one would normally take beam forces/moments from the FE model, and do the checks on the most critical areas via hand calcs/or by using a spreadsheet, that is what many users do from my experience.

Also I would not trust 100% a code checking tool, unless I can validate it with hand calcs - so like everything with FEA results need to be checked, hence why I use my own spreadsheet/hand calcs,

Finally in the documentation it says that FATJACK and BEAMST needs to have ASAS installed - I suppose perhaps that this is a separate licence (think it was an analysis system from Atkins bought by ANSYS)?
Also perhaps ASAS has been built into mech. enterprise - I would ask ANSYS for more details, because it would be strange if it is not available anymore.

 

[Erik Panos Kostson]

I can confirm that asas is faced out and that one needs say femds, or civilfem, or sdc verifier (not sure if that one checks beams, know it does buckling on plates) to do automated steel code checks.