Orion™ Explained
Analysis
Orion uses a very fast, dedicated building solver to assess the complete structural system. The dedicated concrete finite element package allows detailed assessment of floors.
Automatic calculation for centre of gravity and rigidity.
- Fully automated FE Shell and Mid Pier wall modelling options
- Automatic calculation of all self weight loads from all slabs/beams/columns/walls.
- Automatic calculation of beam loads derived from all uniform and/or concentrated slab loads.
- Automatic generation of building notional horizontal loads.
- Automatic generation of beam pattern loads.
- Option to include additional lateral loading such as wind loading.
- Option for automatic generation of Finite Element Mesh for detailed analysis of floors and raft foundations.
- Updated rigid diaphragm modeling options.
- Fully automated FE shell and mid pier wall modelling options (as discussed in the Structural Engineer - Feb 2006).
- Finite element floor module provides fast results for flat slabs, conventional slabs and raft foundation systems.
- Floor diaphragms can be set at any floor level and discrete diaphragms are fully supported.
FE Floor model with results on selected cut line
Yield line loading
FE loading from slabs
Independent Diaphragms
FE Deflection plot
