What do I get?

• A fully functional version with no limit on problem size
• State-of-the-art finite element technology from one of the world's leading suppliers
• An easy to use graphical user interface for Windows 10/11
• Extensive customisation capabilities through the LUSAS Programmable Interface
• Special interfaces for researchers to incorporate their own research work
• Collaborative research opportunities with LUSAS
• Reduced rates on scheduled LUSAS training courses (when available)
• Worked examples to help students understand the fundamentals of finite element analysis
• Access to a Teaching / Training version of LUSAS by your students

Analysis Capabilities

• Software products: LUSAS Analyst, LUSAS Bridge, LUSAS Civil & Structural, LUSAS Composite
• Software options: Fast solvers, Vehicle load optimisation, Steel frame design, RC frame design, RC slab / wall design, Advanced Interactive Modal Dynamics (IMD Plus), Nonlinear analysis, Dynamic analysis, Thermal / Field analysis, Geotechnical analysis, Heat of hydration analysis

Software download and licensing

• LUSAS software is available from the software downloads page. 
• The LUSAS Academic version requires a valid licence key to access it. See Licensing and Network options.
• Contact your local distributor to purchase a licence

Documentation

• Modelling and related "online" help topics are provided within the software.
• LUSAS manuals and step-by-step examples are available in PDF format from the manuals and examples page.

Teaching / Training Version

• With an order for LUSAS Academic you will also receive a Teaching and Training license key to allow access to the Teaching / Training version of LUSAS, which you can freely distribute to students. This, together with the step-by-step worked examples available, is ideal for teaching fundamentals of FE analysis. 
• The Teaching / Training version is a fully functional copy of the software but with limitations on the size of model / analysis that can be solved. Current limits are as follows:

Technical Support

• LUSAS Academic is available supported or unsupported. If the support option is included, full Technical Support for each site licence is provided through a single named university contact.

Terms and Conditions

• See LUSAS Academic Software Terms and Conditions

Purchasing

• Please contact your local distributor for licensing options and prices

Which LUSAS capabilities and software options are included?

LUSAS Academic 

Included:

Fast Solvers

• Fast Multifrontal Direct Solver
• Fast Multifrontal Block Lanczos Eigensolver
• Complex Eigensolver
• Fast Parallel Direct Solver
• Fast Parallel Iterative Solver

Vehicle Load Optimisation

• Rapidly reduces load assessment times
• Extends vehicle loading capabilities of LUSAS Bridge
• Identifies critical vehicle and train (rail) loading patterns for a selected design code

Steel Frame Design

• Design code-based results visualised as Utilisation ratios on members
• Design summary results produced for selected members and loadcases
• Generate formatted design reports, showing calculations made and referencing clauses and equations from chosen code

RC Frame Design

• Design checking of regular and arbitrary shaped reinforced concrete members subject to bending and axial force
• Design code-based results visualised as Utilisation ratios on members
• Produce a tabular summary of results for selected members and loadcases, view detailed results and generate interaction diagrams

RC Slab / Wall design

• Comprehensive design checks to a large range of international Codes of Practice
• Strength/ULS and SLS checks based on flexural, twisting and in-plane effects, shear, stress limits, minimum and maximum areas of reinforcement and crack widths or spacing considerations as appropriate for all supported codes
• Allows for defining load combinations for each design check separately and produces contoured results, detailed table results and rendered calculations for adding to reports

Masonry Bridge Analysis

• Generate 2D and 3D continuum models of single and multi-span masonry arch bridges with semi-circular or segmental arches in a fraction of the time it would take to manually model the same structures

IMDplus Analysis

• Multiple event assessment
• Linear dynamics effects

Nonlinear Analysis

• Large displacement, large rotation and large strain geometric nonlinearities
• Material nonlinearity including plasticity, concrete, damage, volumetric, geotechnical, rubber, creep, temperature dependent, and user supplied models
• Incremental, iterative (MNR or NR), line search and arc length solution procedures
• Follower forces
• Slideline/slidesurface contact algorithms

Dynamic Analysis

• Spectral and forced response
• Modal or Rayleigh damping
• Transient dynamics
• Automatic time step selection
• Nonlinear dynamics
• Time dependent materials and loading

Thermal / Field Analysis

• Steady state and transient
• Linear, nonlinear and field dependent material models
• Automatic time steps
• Link, line, plane, axisymmetric and solid field elements

Geotechnical analysis

• Soils-specific analysis facilities to enable finite element modelling in 2D or 3D of both ground and structure in a single model.
• Contiuum soils models including Duncan-Chang, Hoek-Brown, Modfied Cam-Clay, Mohr-Coulomb, Modified Mohr-Coulomb, Drucker-Prager, Tresca, Interface materials for Mohr-Coulomb Friction Interface and Elasto-plastic Interface.
• Two-phase material properties
• Phi-c reduction (for Mohr-Coulomb and Hoek-Brown models)
• Ko initialisation
• Pore water pressure modelling for drained, undrained and phreatic surfaces
• Drainage / filling curves 
• Water pressure distribution loading
• Pore pressure flux loading
• Pore pressure supports  - closed, seepage, drainage and open

Heat of Hydration Analysis

• Models the heat of hydration of concrete for a variety of cement types. 
• Includes effects due to the addition of fly ash and ground granulated blast furnace slag
• Permits hygro-thermal analysis to determine time- and age-dependent deformations, stresses, crack-widths and more...

Composite FRP

• For structural and bridge applications, modelling of Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP), laminated glass, reinforced concrete using the smeared reinforcement technique, and gradual through-thickness masonry arch cracking assessments can be carried out using advanced layered shell elements.

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