3 docs tagged with "static analysis"

For most users the most common use of GSA is for linear static analysis. The Getting started manual guides a new user through the stages of building and carrying out a linear static analysis. In all cases a knowledge of linear static analysis is a pre-requisite for the more advanced analysis options.

Analysis – simple static

Analysis of structures with ties and struts is the simplest nonlinear option. No special action is required by the user to activate this option as it depends only on the types of elements in the model.