Welcome to the CSI Knowledge Base
The
Knowledge Base is a searchable, online encyclopedia that provides information to the Structural Engineering community.
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Documentation may be of general technical interest or specific to
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L | Lane · Licensing · Link · Load case · Load combination · Load pattern |
M | Mass · Meshing · Miscellaneous · Modal analysis · Modeling techniques · Moving load |
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P | P-Delta effect · Plugins · Power spectral density · Program usage · Pushover |
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S | Section cut · Section Designer · Shell · Shrinkage · Soil · Solid · Solver · Staged construction |
T | Target force · Tendon · Tension and compression limits · Time history |
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Product-specific information
Product descriptions and additional information specific to each Software are accessible through these links:
- SAP2000 – General-purpose structural analysis and design software
- CSiBridge – Specialized bridge-engineering software
- ETABS – Multi-story building analysis and design software
- SAFE – Foundation and elevated-slab software
- PERFORM-3D – Sophisticated modeling and performance-assessment software
- CSiCOL – Advanced column design and evaluation software
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Specific content types may be accessed through the links which follow:
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- Tutorials – Tutorials and supplemental documentation
Documentation – Manuals, technical notes, and documentation distributed with
- Test Problems – Sample problems with supplemental models and calculation sets
- Example Problems – Information that supplements the example problems
- Verification Problems – Information that supplements the verification problems
Miscellaneous
- Help Space – Information on using the Knowledge Base and contacting Technical Support
