Plant Design

Hexagon has released the newest version of its trusted structural analysis and design solution, GT STRUDL®. With exciting new updates in GT STRUDL 43, you can streamline and simplify your project execution across process industries. 

These enhancements start with a new tree-based control that enables engineers to activate input dialog boxes easily, in just seconds, without navigating through the menus in the solution.  Engineers will have better model information displays such as job information and titles, in addition to an improved model statistics display.   

GT STRUDL’s section library has been expanded to include the National Design Specification (NDS) 2018 for wood construction cross section profiles and NUCOR Canadian steel section profiles.  This release also supports powerful AutoCAD® 2023 - 2025 and BricsCAD® 2024 - 2025 in CADModeler, enabling the collaboration of analysis models on other platforms such as Apple iPhone/iPad. 

For projects where fabrication models and loads need to be created, GT STRUDL 43 can export structural analysis models to SDS2 and IDEA StatiCa® 24.1. With this, loads can greatly reduce the time required for manual coordination, data entry and the possibility of errors in manual transcription is eliminated.  

Unlocking New Dimensions in Structural Analysis  

Engineers are typically asked to run complex, accurate analysis on projects with very tight schedules. GT STRUDL 43 now enables engineers to run complex analysis such as soil springs, response spectrum with pseudo-static load case generation, push over analysis with plastic hinge formation and dynamic analysis - in a matter of minutes. Additionally, engineers can apply plastic hinges graphically in GT Menu, reducing the effort required to assign these custom hinges for larger models with a number of different types of steel profiles. 

Alongside the above advanced analysis features, GT STRUDL 43 comes with a brand-new gap element that allows engineers to simulate contact interactions between different components of a structure, or between two different structures due to a loading.  This gives organizations the ability to ensure that their gapped designs are safe the first time. 

As design codes become more complex, so do the analysis requirements to complete a project. GT STRUDL 43 comes with the new CSA S16 2019/2023 Canadian steel code to enable engineers to check their designs after running non-linear analysis.  This feature was highly voted for by customers on the newly launched Hexagon Ideas portal in Hexagon’s Smart Community.  

This new version also helps engineers to quickly and easily identify failed members using the newly implemented colored datasheets. 

Finally, GT STRUDL 43 includes an updated user interface for our users in the offshore oil and gas sector who use GT Selos for the generation of ocean wave loads and barge mooring analysis for offshore jackets.  

Our product team is committed and focused on providing easy to use and powerful analysis solutions with streamlined workflows for your projects.

For more information on this release, click here. 

To request an upgrade to GT STRUDL 43, please get in touch.