GSA

GSA has for many years been one of the leading PC-based packages for structural analysis. Developed by Arup to meet the demanding and diverse requirements of Arup, one of the world's leading firms of international consulting engineers, its capabilities have already been proven on thousands of     complex and prestigious projects world-wide.

Continual in-house feedback during specification and development from project engineers has ensured that the relevance and functionality of its many feature-rich components while automated comprehensive verification procedures have provided essential user confidence in the integrity of the superb analysis solvers.

Full on-line program help and logical user interfaces in a familiar environment ensure that minimal learning curves are required. Extensive automated data checking help avoid wasted time caused by analysis with invalid parameters.

Powerful highly intuitive graphical utilities, both to generate the structure and inspect the annotated results, are always complemented by the option of more traditional tabulated displays. Both incorporate expected features to accelerate data input and inspection of selective results. Selective or complete hardcopy is always available as a permanent record.

GSA's comprehensive specification enables all the engineer's structural analysis and design requirements to be fulfilled within one program. Consequent advantages of consistent style, terminology, sign convention, data files and modus operandi avoid costly learning curves frequently associated with the use of separate products from different vendors. When the approximations of a preliminary skeletal model become demonstrably inadequate as the design evolves, two dimensional elements can be seamlessly incorporated within the same model, with the final design similarly checked for dynamic compliance.

Ongoing development will continue to be driven by practicing engineers in a hands-on environment to ensure that GSA remains focused at the leading edge of structural analysis and design software development as more relevant state of the art pre- and post-processors are added to complement the core program