General Quesions

Hello,

Thank you for your interest in Profis Engineering and Ask Hilti,

I'll try my best to answer all but we definitely need more specific detailings for a few of the questions,

• How can we define an irregular steel section rather than the standard ones.
  • Can you please give us more detail on the connection you are talking about? Uploading a few pictures would help us understand the application better for us to be able to give you a better answer.
• How can we introduce Load combinations from ROBOT Autodesk ( If there is a small video ).
  • For robot or any other 3rd party software integration,

First you need to have Profis Engineering, and then you need to download the interface / application:


2nd step is to log-in to the application using your profis engineering ID:


3rd step is to Import your load combinations from your structural software:

• What is the acceptable range of % when comparing between Rigid and Flexible design.
  • Any % differentiation needs the judgement of the design engineer, if the difference is 10% or below 10%, you could assume that your baseplate behaviour will be as close to rigid as possible. But as I said, no matter what % difference you have if you think that the forces on the anchors are actually acceptable, it will be up to your engineering judgement to go ahead and confirm the design.

• What are the Prying forces as definition
  • Prying forces are additional tensile forces created on anchor bolts when the plate is subjected to deformation. When connections subjected to tension forces the connected part can leads to deformation that increases the tension applied to the bolt so that the additional force is generated in the blots due to joint plates. This additional force called prying force.

If you have any additional questions, feel free to ask,

With Regards,
Fethi

There is also a video available for the ROBOT integration:

https://ask.hilti.com/videos/hilti-profis-engineering-integration-with-robot-structural-analysis/nmwfhf

hope this helps