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Version Perform3D -Performance-Based Design of 3D Structures Software

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Perform3D is a nonlinear analysis and design product focused on displacement-based and capacity design of buildings. 

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Modeling

Nonlinear features include a number of nonlinear building components such as frame hinges, shear walls, dampers, braces, and seismic isolators
Analysis
The Perform3D analysis engine provides tools for performance-based design, including nonlinear pushover and dynamic earthquake analyses. The analysis engine is 64-bit and the product has the ability to run up to 8 analyses in parallel
Performance Assessment
Perform3D includes a number of tools for measuring the response of model and assessing the behavior of the structure, including strain gage elements and deformation and strength capacity definitions on both elastic and inelastic components
The limit state feature in Perform3D can be used to aggregate response data into demand-over-capacity ratios for ease of performance assessment.
Import and Export
Perform3D models can be exported from SAP2000 or ETABS and serve as a starting point for your Perform3D model

Frame View

In Perform3D, a Frame view can be used to simplify and organize the display and definition of the structure by showing only selected parts of the structure. You can quickly toggle between a full structure view and a view showing only the elements in frame view while defining the model.
Import from SAP2000 and ETABS
Perform3D models can be exported from SAP2000 or ETABS and serve as a starting point for your Perform3D model.
Import of Structural Geometry Through Text Files
Nodes, element geometry, masses and nodal loads can be imported using a comma-delimited text file

Perform3D includes the following element types:

  • Frame elements for beams, columns and braces.
  • Wall element for shear walls.
  • Slab element for floors.
  • Axial-only bar elements, including gap and hook elements.
  • Seismic isolators of rubber and friction pendulum type.
  • Buckling restrained brace.
  • Infill panel, with only shear strength and stiffness.
  • Fluid damper, with nonlinear relationship between force and deformation rate.
  • Connection panel zone, to model shear deformation in beam-to-column connections.
  • Deformation "Gages" of various types. These elements have no stiffness and are used for performance assessment and reporting.
Customize frame element properties through the use of multiple elastic and inelastic components in a compound component.
In Perform3D, frame elements are made up of a number of components, such as elastic sections, nonlinear hinges, releases, and end zones. For example, a nonlinear column might consist of several components.