STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS SOFTWARE

[nedians]

I have a final year project on developing a software which should be able to to dynamic anaylses of buildings whether its a 5 storey or 100 storey . ( dynamic means wind and environment forces ) , so i want to know :-

1) Is there any one here who has made such software on any program ? or any website through where i can find such a software.

2) On which language or program ( like fortran or Visula basic ) should i use to make this software .

3) Is this project has any commerical value ?

 

[Qshake]

This project has tremedous practical value. Structural Engineers (earthquake engineers) use this all the time and many of us have made small programs to do this type of application. For example, I have a Mathcad program which does a time-history and response spectra analysis of a planar three story building.

Good Luck

 

[billyrayjimbob]

try

http://www.buildcom.net/malaysia/Officeit/designsoftware.htm

 

[Kope]

The best way to write software for engineering remains the traditional way, which means Fortran. (AbSoft produce a very powerful compilator for both fortran77 and 90). Don't worry about graphical interface, you could design it in VC++. You could link the two codes (C and Fortran) very easily, compile the fotran code as a dynamic link library
and than link it to your C code.
The main advantage that fortran has against any other language is in manipulating mathematical functions; no other language can do that so easily.
There are a lot of written codes at NISEE site (all of them in fortran), you should start your program based on SAPIV source code. As a matter of fact it was the first great FE software.

best regards,
kope