Bentley Academy

 

Bentley:

Bentley Systems is a software development company that supports the professional needs of those responsible for creating and managing the world’s infrastructure, including roadways, bridges, airports, skyscrapers, industrial and power plants as well as utility networks.  Bentley delivers solutions for the entire lifecycle of the infrastructure asset, tailored to the needs of the various professions – the engineers, architects, planners, contractors, fabricators, IT managers, operators and maintenance engineers – who will work on and work with that asset over its lifetime.

 

Bentley Institute:

The Bentley Institute Academic Program is committed to helping prepare students for tomorrow’s infrastructure workforce. The Academic SELECT Subscription provides academic institutions with a comprehensive portfolio of more than 50 applications from Bentley, enables educators to give their students hands-on experience with the same software used by infrastructure professionals worldwide, providing them with an important competitive edge when they explore job opportunities.

The Academic SELECT Subscription enables educators to give their students hands-on experience with the same software used by infrastructure professionals worldwide, providing them with an important competitive edge when they explore job opportunities.

 

Features:

• Over 50 software applications (details in chart) for use in classrooms and labs

• Access to software downloads and on-demand learning for students’ and educators’ personal computers

• Free instructor-led online learning for educators

• Full upgrades to the latest software versions

• 24/7 technical support

• Networking and support via Bentley Communities

 

 

 

 

SOFTWARE PROGRAMS:

  1. Structural Analysis and Design Software:

  1. STAAD Pro. :

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/structural-analysis-software/staadpro

 

 

Perform comprehensive analysis and design for any size or type of structure faster than ever before using the new STAAD Pro. CONNECT Edition. Confidently design steel, concrete, timber, aluminum, and cold-formed steel structures anywhere in the world using over 90 included international design codes, regardless of which STAAD option you choose.

CAPABILITIES:

> Analyze gravity and lateral load

> Comply with seismic requirements

> Design and analyze structural models

> Design and analyze with finite elements

> Design beams, columns and walls

> Design cold-formed steel members

> Design lateral resisting frames

> Design to international standards

> Generate design loads and load combinations

> Import section shapes created in DXF

> Integrate slab and foundation designs

> Integrate steel connection designs

> Produce section property reports

> Produce structural design documentation

> Share structural models

> Utilize international section profiles

 

  1. STAAD Foundation Advanced:

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/structural-analysis-software/staad-foundation-advanced

 

Get efficient foundation design and documentation using plant-specific design tools, multiple design codes with U.S. and metric bar sizes, design optimization, and automatic drawing generation. STAAD Foundation Advanced provides you with a streamlined workflow through its integration with STAAD Pro or as a stand-alone application. You can design virtually any type of foundation, from basic to the most complex.

CAPABILITIES

> Analyze gravity and lateral load

> Analyze machine vibration and settlement

> Analyze steady state dynamic performance

> Calculate punching shear

> Comply with seismic requirements

> Design foundations to international standards

> Detail and schedule concrete reinforcing

> Generate design loads and load combinations

> Produce structural design documentation

> Produce structural details

 

 

  1. RAM Structural System:

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/structural-analysis-software/ram-structural-system

 

Tackle projects with confidence and efficiently produce high quality and economical designs, using various concrete, steel, and joist building materials; all in compliance with your local building codes. Quickly design, analyze, and create documentation for your building projects, saving time and money. Design anything from individual components to large-scale building and foundations. Increase your productivity by eliminating tedious and time consuming tasks with RAM’s practical applications. RAM maximizes your software investment with one fully integrated application suite offering complete building analysis, design, and drafting for both steel and concrete structures. Easily share your structural data with applications such as Revit, Tekla, and Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer through Integrated Structural Modeling (ISM) workflows.

 

CAPABILITIES

> Analyze gravity and lateral load

> Comply with seismic requirements

> Design and analyze with finite elements

> Design and analyze structural models

> Design to international standards

> Generate design loads and load combinations

> Integrate slab and foundation designs

> Model building structures

> Produce structural design documentation

> Share structural models

 

 

 

  1. RAM Elements:

Perform analysis and design – including quickly performing 3D finite element analysis – of almost any type of structure or structural component, all in one affordable application. You will save time and money by performing your daily design tasks for all of your building projects, simple or complex, all within a single easy-to-learn and use application. Complete your steel, concrete, cold-formed steel, timber, and masonry projects, regardless of complexity, on time and on budget. Maximize your software investment by using RAM Element’s simple graphic interface to quickly design trusses, continuous beams, and frames of all types. Quickly complete many other design tasks such as designing retaining walls, masonry walls, tilt-up walls, shear walls, or footings.

 

  1. RAM Concepts:

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/structural-analysis-software/ram-concept

Concrete Slab Design Software

Economically design post-tensioned and reinforced concrete floors including slabs, mats, and rafts, with exceptional visibility into compliance, efficiency, and practicality. Design floors and foundations reliably and efficiently, saving time and money, and overcoming the most common concerns you face as a designer. RAM Concept allows you to easily design complex floor geometries and incorporate changes with ease using powerful task automation and clearly organized output.

 

  1. RAM Connection:

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/structural-analysis-software/ram-connection

 

 

Perform analysis and design of virtually any connection type and verify your connections in seconds, all with comprehensive calculations, including seismic compliance. Increase your productivity with optimized workflows and full integration of 3D design models, including the ability to customize the application with your preferences. Quickly complete all your connections, such as shear and moment connections, braced frame connections, column/beam splices, and base plates.

 

CAPABILITIES

> Comply with seismic requirements

> Design structural steel connections

> Design to international standards

> Produce structural design documentation

> Produce structural details

 

  1. ProStructures:

 

Efficiently create accurate 3D models for structural steel, metal work, and reinforced concrete structures. ProStructures lets you create design drawings, fabrication details, and schedules that automatically update whenever you change the 3D model. Complete projects quicker thanks to customizable user standards and the open working environment. Comprehensive software built by experienced design engineers, ProStructures, which includes ProSteel and ProConcrete, can help increase your productivity and profitability.

CAPABILITIES

> Design to international standards

> Detail and schedule concrete reinforcing

> Model parametric structures

> Model reinforced concrete

> Produce steel fabrication drawings

> Produce structural concrete details

> Produce structural construction documentation

> Produce structural design documentation

  1. Microstran:

General Purpose Structural Analysis Software

Efficiently model, analyze, and design with Microstran, our diverse general-purpose structural analysis application with built-in steel member and connection design. You can increase your profitability and productivity by designing smarter and faster with powerful modeling commands, exceptionally fast solvers, and vast file format interoperability. You can easily investigate alternative designs and quickly incorporate design change requests thanks to our built-in steel member and connection design. Confidently perform nonlinear and buckling analysis, integrated steel connection design, and export your model to the engineering format of your choice.

 

  1. Modeling and Visualization Software:

  1. MicroStation:

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/modeling-and-visualization-software/microstation

Design Modeling Software

MicroStation’s advanced parametric 3D modeling capabilities allow infrastructure professionals of any discipline to deliver data-driven, BIM-ready models. Your team can aggregate their work on MicroStation, including designs and models created with Bentley’s discipline specific BIM applications. As a result, you can create comprehensive, multi-discipline BIM models, documentation, and other deliverables. Since your project team will work in a universal modeling application, they can communicate easily to share intelligent deliverables and maintain the full integrity of your data.

MicroStation and all Bentley BIM applications are built on the same comprehensive modeling platform. You therefore can easily progress your MicroStation work into discipline specific workflows with Bentley’s design and analytical modeling BIM applications. With this flexibility, each member of your project team has exactly the right application for the work they need to do.

Get all the advantages of BIM without the need to change your existing workflows.

 

CAPABILITIES

> Create project deliverables

> Design in context

> Design with true 3D parametric modeling

> Enforce standards

> Lay out and annotate drawings

> Produce animations and renderings

> Visualize and analyze designs

> Work collaboratively on designs

> Work in a personalized environment

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. MicroStation Power Draft:

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/modeling-and-visualization-software/microstation-powerdraft

With MicroStation Power Draft, you have the power to design, document, and detail projects of any size or complexity. Whether you are an architect, engineer, contractor, or GIS professional, you can use Power Draft as a companion to any modeling or CAD design application. More than just computer-aided drafting software, Power Draft enables you to develop and produce precise and rich physical and electronic deliverables easily and reliably.

> Develop and document 2D CAD designs with an unmatched range of powerful, intelligent drafting and constraint tools

> unlike other technical drawing software, Power Draft enables you to produce polished drawings, schedules, and reports directly from 2D and 3D models

> you can also automatically annotate and build reports based on object properties and take models further by producing intelligent 3D PDFs

> Bring your project information and teams together by incorporating and exchanging drawings and models in any format, including point clouds, DWG, DGN, DXF, SHP, 3DM, and more.

CAPABILITIES

> Create project deliverables

> Design in context

> Enforce standards

> Lay out and annotate drawings

> Work collaboratively on designs

> Work in a personalized environment

 

  1. Reality Modeling Software:

  1. Context Capture:

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/reality-modeling-software/contextcapture

 

Reality Modeling Software

With Context Capture, you can produce even the largest and most challenging 3D models of existing real-world conditions, including scales as large as entire cities, from simple photographs, in order to easily and quickly provide context for design, construction, and operations decisions for all types of infrastructure projects throughout the world.

Hybrid processing in Context Capture enables the creation of engineering-ready reality meshes that incorporate the best of both worlds – the versatility and convenience of high-resolution photography, supplemented, where needed, by additional accuracy of point clouds from laser scanning.

CAPABILITIES

> Consume imagery from many cameras and sensor types

> Consume laser scan data

> Create animations, videos, and fly-throughs

> Create high-fidelity images

> Create scalable terrain models

> Generate 2D and 3D GIS models

> Generate 3D CAD models

> Integrate data from many sources with reality meshes

> Integrate positioning data

> Measure and analyze model data

> Model geometry from reality modeling data

> Perform automatic aerotriangulation and 3D reconstruction

  1. Bentley LumenRT:

https://www.bentley.com/en/perspectives-and-viewpoints/topics/campaign/lumenrt/video

 

Use LumenRT to enliven models with life and nature, and produce attention-grabbing visuals. No matter your technical experience, you can easily use LumenRT to render cinematic quality in real time, animate models, incorporate digital nature, integrate seamlessly within CAD and GIS workflows, and share your creations with other stakeholders and clients.

CAPABILITIES

> Animate models

> Incorporate digital nature

> Integrate with CAD and GIS workflows

> Render in real-time with cinematic quality

> Share your creations

 

  1. Bentley Descartes:

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/reality-modeling-software/bentley-descartes

Take advantage of all project data by integrating point clouds, scalable digital terrain models, raster files, and legacy documentation into your infrastructure workflows. You have access to a wide variety of reality modeling tools to help increase productivity for a better ROI.

Bentley Descartes integrates your imagery into engineering workflows to increase your project quality. The application streamlines point cloud to geometry conversion to boost project production times and ensure engineer quality. You can also produce animation and rendering for project presentations.

CAPABILITIES

> Convert raster documents to vector drawings

> Create animations, videos, and fly-throughs

> Create high-fidelity images

> Create scalable terrain models

> Integrate data from many sources with reality meshes

> Model geometry from reality modeling data

> Process raster images

> Visualize, manipulate and edit reality modeling data

 

  1. Bentley Pointools: Cloud Processing Software

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/reality-modeling-software/bentley-pointools

Quickly visualize, manipulate, animate, and edit point clouds all in a single workflow. This streamlined process helps you decrease production time and increase overall accuracy.

Process point clouds for all your infrastructure projects with Bentley Pointools.

CAPABILITIES

> Create animations, videos, and fly-throughs

> Detect clashes from point clouds

> Difference point clouds

> Edit point clouds

> Process and visualize large point clouds

  1. Building Design and Analysis Software:

  1. Building Energy Analysis Softwares:

Create energy efficient buildings by predicting accurate real-world performances. Conduct building energy analysis with one of the industry-standard simulation engines, EnergyPlus. Incorporate the required compliance checking and documentation mandated by the United Kingdom with Hevacomp software.

  1. Hevacomp Mechanical Designer:

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Design and analyze mechanical systems with Hevacomp Mechanical Designer software tailored to meet United Kingdom standards. Accurately analyze building load and energy calculations using a straightforward and robust calculation methodology. From an extensive database to comprehensive tools and reports, it has everything you need to power your world using less energy.

CAPABILITIES

> Calculate building heating and cooling loads

> Comply with U.K. building regulations

> Design building mechanical services

> Size pipes and duct systems

 

 

 

ii) Hevacomp Mechanical Designer:

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Design and analyze building electrical systems with Hevacomp Electrical Designer software, and meet the needs and standards of the United Kingdom. With simple-to-use design tools, you can quickly design complex, high-performance electrical systems with ease.

CAPABILITIES

> Analyse and size cables

> Design building electrical systems

> Design lighting systems

 

iii) Hevacomp Dynamic Simulation:

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Easily perform building analysis using dynamic simulation with EnergyPlus, a global standard for dynamic simulation. With Hevacomp Dynamic Simulation, you can design accurate building simulations while staying compliant with United Kingdom building regulations. Simplify your building analysis process by using one common building model for calculations and complex building simulations.

CAPABILITIES

> Analyze whole building energy

> Integrate with building mechanical services data

> Operate with industry-standard EnergyPlus

  1. GenerativeComponents:

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Quickly explore a broad range of “what-if” alternatives for even the most complex buildings with GenerativeComponents computational design software. You can explore more possibilities in less time and efficiently create and manage complex geometry. By automating the design process, you can accelerate your design iterations. Pursue designs freer in form, so you can design and explore the unimaginable.

 

 

 

  1. Civil Design Softwares:

  1. OpenRoads:

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/civil-design-software/openroads-conceptstation

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/civil-design-software/openroads-designer

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/civil-design-software/openroads-navigator

OpenRoads builds on our tradition and deep experience in civil and road network, and provides a comprehensive modeling environment to support design and analysis from concept through construction.

OpenRoads enables the project delivery of road networks through construction-driven engineering and delivers all the information needed to support operational workflows. OpenRoads applications help redefine best practices for design and construction deliverables supporting the exchange of information throughout the project delivery lifecycle, to all participants of the project delivery team.

OpenRoads ConceptStation is an innovative, new application to enable rapid and iterative conceptual and preliminary design, leveraging contextual information obtained through point clouds, reality meshes, GIS, and other sources.

OpenRoads Designer is a comprehensive and fully functioned detailed design application for surveying, drainage, subsurface utilities, and roadway design that supersedes all capabilities previously delivered through InRoads, GEOPAK, MX, and PowerCivil.

OpenRoads Navigator enables 3D design visualization and design review and progresses approvals and issues resolution, at the office, in the field, or at the site.

CAPABILITIES

> Create conceptual designs

> Draw road and bridge designs

> Incorporate contextual information

> Render in real-time with cinematic quality

> Transition conceptual design to detailed design

 

 

  1. Open Rail:

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Bentley provides comprehensive track, station, yard, and overhead line electrification design to support all stages of rail design, from concept through construction, maintenance, and operations. OpenRail continues to expand on our deep experience in rail design. We offer applications that help redefine best practices for planning, design, and construction deliverables to drive the exchange of information throughout the project delivery lifecycle and across all team participants.

 

OpenRail ConceptStation offers rail, electrification, tunnel, and bridge design capabilities, helping rail engineers and designers rapidly determine optimal conceptual designs with real-world data and cost analysis.

OpenRail Designer provides comprehensive and detailed modeling of rail metro, light rail, commuter rail, or high-speed rail design.

CAPABILITIES

> Design electrification systems

> Evaluate viable track alternatives

> Incorporate contextual information including reality meshes

> Layout conceptual track designs

> Render in real-time with cinematic quality

> Analyze rail and sleeper placement

> Analyze rail track regressions

> Automate rail drawing production

> Create profiles and cross sections

> Design and analyze rail and road corridors

> Design and place rail signals

> Design in context

> Design rail track drainage systems

> Design track geometry

> Design yard, station, and siding

> Design rail overhead line systems

> Reuse common design layouts

> Visualize designs

 

  1. gINT Professional:

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Go beyond your basic logs with gINT Professional. You can report and manage subsurface data in almost any way with custom reports including graphics, photos, charts, maps, and more. The software helps you manage borehole, well logs, CPT, and geophysical logs. You can also create fence diagrams, graphs, tables, and any other imaginable report. gINT Professional enables you to:

  • View subsurface data from Google Earth

  • Publish data in Web-based GIS

  • Visualize subsurface data in ArcGIS

  • Import/Export gINT reports into design, modeling, and analysis software such as Bentley’s civil applications or AutoCAD

 

 

 

  1. Bridge Analysis Softwares:

  1. LEAP Bridge Concrete:

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Improve decision making for design and construction while connecting and enhancing your workflow. Exchange project information including bridge geometry, materials, loads, prestressing strand pattern, and shear reinforcement. Innovative analysis, design, and load-rating functionality come together in one advanced environment with LEAP Bridge Concrete.

Tap into the full power of specialized modules that share a common information model from a single interface for:

> Computational bridge layout and design

> Analysis, design, and load rating for post-tensioned and reinforced concrete box girder, T-beam, and slab bridges

> Analysis, design, and load rating for simple and multi-span precast and prestressed concrete bridges

> Analysis and design of reinforced concrete abutments, piers, and foundations

> Analysis and design of spliced precast/prestressed bridge girders

 

Easily handle the vast majority of the bridges built today, with the smart choice for concrete bridges.

 

 

  1. LEAP Bridge Steel:

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Streamline the design of straight and curved I-girder and tub-girder bridges with LEAP Bridge Steel’s computational 3D design and modeling. Benefit from the software’s advanced load rating and analysis capabilities, such as line-girder, grillage, and finite element analysis, which will enable you to evaluate steel bridges faster and deliver your projects on time and under budget.

  • Maximize efficiencies on your next bridge project.

  • Design, analyze, and rate steel bridges using an intuitive interface

  • Speed project delivery of complex bridge projects with automatic advanced calculations

  • Share data with all OpenRoads applications and with MicroStation

  • Create an intelligent 3D model that captures design intent on the fly

  • Easily explore design alternatives to maximize cost savings and improve scheduling

  • Automatically create virtual bridge models (i-models) enabling your entire project team to easily share and interact with complex project data

 

  1. RM Bridge Advanced:

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/bridge-analysis-software/rm-bridge

 

Streamline massive analytical tasks and save time on complex engineering challenges by taking a more integrated approach in the design and construction of your bridge systems with RM Bridge. Perform bridge design, analysis, and construction simulation to determine resiliency during seismic and natural events and analyze rolling stock. Apply visual processes that quickly generate information from multiple disciplines to make reliable engineering decisions. You can also leverage intraoperability with OpenRoads and OpenBridge Modeler to visually determine how your proposed bridge impacts existing and proposed project elements. Visualize the positions, directions, and magnitudes of loads graphically.

RM Bridge is offered in three different versions so you can choose the version that's best for you:

> RM Bridge is the basic application of the RM Bridge family. It is suitable for analysis, design, and load rating of concrete, steel, and timber bridges of all types, such as girder bridges, truss bridges, arch bridges, as well as, segmental bridges. It can be used for straight, curved, or skewed bridges. RM Bridge supports over 20 international design codes. The advanced analysis methods include static and linear dynamic analysis, soil-structure interaction, time-dependent creep, and shrinkage analysis. Address complex construction sequences with support for an unlimited number of construction stages.

> RM Bridge Advanced extends RM Bridge capabilities to nonlinear analysis, FEM, pushover, and time-history analysis, as well as high speed rail analysis. It includes the specialized Balanced Cantilever tool for easier generation of construction sequences for segmental bridges and RM Cast tool for setting up segment geometry in the casting yard.

 

 

 

 

  1. Hydraulics and Hydrology Softwares:

  1. WaterGEMS: Water Distribution Analysis & Design Software

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/hydraulics-and-hydrology-software/watergems

 

 

 

WaterGEMS provides you with a comprehensive yet easy-to-use decision-support tool for water distribution networks. The software helps improve your knowledge of how infrastructure behaves as a system, how it reacts to operational strategies, and how it should grow as population and demands increase.

From fire flow and water quality simulations, to criticality and energy cost analysis, WaterGEMS has everything you need in a flexible multi-platform environment.

CAPABILITIES

> Analyze pipe and valve criticality

> Assess fire flow capacity

> Build and manage hydraulic models

> Design water distribution systems

> Develop flushing plans

> Identify water loss

> Manage energy use

> Prioritize pipe renewal

> Simulate networks in real time

 

 

  1. WaterCAD: Water Distribution Modeling and Analysis Software

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/hydraulics-and-hydrology-software/watercad

 

 

Utilities and engineering firms around the world trust WaterCAD as a reliable decision-support tool for their infrastructure. Design new water systems and manage existing water networks effectively to reduce disruption risks and energy use. WaterCAD’s ease-of-use helps you successfully plan, design, and operate water distribution systems:

> Increase capacity to adequate service levels.

> Supply clean potable water without interruption.

> Deliver high quality designs cost effectively.

CAPABILITIES

> Assess fire flow capacity

> Analyze pipe and valve criticality

> Build and manage hydraulic models

> Design water distribution systems

> Develop flushing plans

> Identify water loss

> Manage energy use

 

  1. SewerGEMS: Modeling Software for Sanitary and Combined Sewer.

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/hydraulics-and-hydrology-software/sewergems

 

 

SewerGEMS streamlines the modeling process, so that you have more time for solving wastewater engineering problems, such as improving capacity and limiting sewer overflows, which ultimately enable utilities to comply with sewer regulations set by regulatory agencies.

For more than three decades, SewerGEMS has provided utilities and wastewater professionals like you with advanced engineering tools to plan, design, maintain, and operate sanitary and combined sewer systems.

SewerGEMS is a superset of SewerCAD.

CAPABILITIES

> Allocate and estimate sanitary loads

> Allocate and estimate storm water loads

> Analyze hydraulics and combined sewer overflows

> Analyze hydrogen sulfide formation

> Analyze inlet capacities

> Build and manage hydraulic models

> Design and analyze culverts

> Design and analyze low impact development controls

> Design and analyze pond and outlets

> Design sanitary sewers

> Design storm water systems

> Simulate water quality

 

 

 

  1. SewerCAD: Modeling Software for Design and Analysis of Sanitary Sewers

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/hydraulics-and-hydrology-software/sewercad

 

 

 

Ideal for system design and the rehabilitation of sanitary sewers, SewerCAD will help you invest your capital improvement funds wisely with a wealth of easy-to-use and powerful modeling capabilities for building and preparing your sewer models effectively.

SewerCAD provides thousands of engineers at utilities and consulting firms around the world with tools to efficiently improve the quality of their designs:

> Automated design and rehabilitation: Confidently recommend the most cost-effective pipe sizes and invert elevations, while meeting design restrictions, using SewerCAD’s constraint-based design of gravity pipes and structures for sanitary sewers.

> Improved design productivity: SewerCAD’s ability to run from within MicroStation or AutoCAD enables you to model in a platform you are more familiar with and to take advantage of CAD environments and tools (e.g., superior layout, drafting capabilities).

Improved decision making: Sound decision-making for your sanitary sewer system requires the consideration of multiple engineering scenarios, which is enabled by SewerCAD’s what-if scenario management.

SewerCAD is a subset of SewerGEMS.

CAPABILITIES

> Design sanitary sewers

> Allocate and estimate sanitary loads

> Build and manage hydraulic models

> Simulate gravity and pressure hydraulics

 

 

 

  1. Hammer: Water Hammer and Transient Analysis Software

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Identify critical points in the system that need protection and facilitate sound system design with HAMMER modeling tools:

> Focus on mitigating surge, not on the modeling process: Streamlined model building and management enables you to jump-start the model building process and manage your model effectively, so that you can focus on developing the most appropriate strategy for controlling and limiting hydraulic transients.

> Simulate transient precisely to improve the quality of your decisions: Decrease the risk of approximating the behavior of protective devices and rotating equipment. Rough estimation of transients can be too costly. HAMMER helps you accurately simulate the impact of a wide range of surge protection devices and rotating equipment (pumps and turbines).

> Leverage existing CAD and GIS data for improved design productivity and to enrich the system or model that utility personnel rely on.

CAPABILITIES

> Analyze transients

> Build and manage hydraulic models

 

 

  1. CivilStorm: Comprehensive Stormwater Modeling and Analysis Software

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/hydraulics-and-hydrology-software/civilstorm

 

 

CivilStorm performs analysis of all aspects of stormwater systems: rainfall, runoff, inlet capture and bypass, gravity and pressure piping, ponds, outlet structures, open channels, culverts, and more. It provides:

> Comprehensive stormwater modeling: Analyze pressure and free-surface flow conditions for networks of channels and closed conduits; model complex pond outlets for a variety of tailwater conditions; and use weirs, orifices, culverts, risers, and inlet boxes in your design.

> Effortless design: CivilStorm recommends the most cost-effective pipe sizes and invert elevations, while meeting design restrictions. It guides you through the complex pond and outlet design process and streamlines complicated culvert hydraulics.

> Streamlined model building and management: Leverage and import virtually any external data format to jump-start the model. Then, manipulate the model data effectively, with the ability to use a multitude of data entry and model editing tools that simplify and shorten the modeling process.

 

CivilStorm is a superset of StormCAD and a subset of SewerGEMS.

CAPABILITIES

> Allocate and estimate stormwater loads

> Analyze inlet capacities

> Build and manage hydraulic models

> Design and analyze culverts

> Design and analyze low impact development controls

> Design and analyze pond and outlets

> Design stormwater systems

> Simulate hydraulics using multiple solvers

  1. Offshore Structural Analysis Softwares:

  1. MAXSURF: Initial Hull Design Software

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/offshore-structural-analysis-software/maxsurf

 

 

 

Visualize and optimize vessel designs with the complete set of integrated naval architecture tools in MAXSURF. Create fair hull shapes, comply with stability requirements, minimize power requirements, and ensure crew and passenger comfort in varying sea states. Minimize structural weight while ensuring scantling compliance through initial modeling and stress analysis of beam and plate structures.

MAXSURF helps you redefine design excellence for any size vessel. Choose the version that fits your project needs:

> MAXSURF – Develop optimal designs for smaller craft using up to 20 NURBS (non-uniform rational basis spline) surfaces.

 

CAPABILITIES

> Assess vessel compliance

> Model marine vessels

> Optimize vessel design

 

 

 

  1. SACS: Offshore Structural Analysis and Design Software

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/brands/sacs

 

Achieve offshore structure compliance more quickly with the most comprehensive and up-to-date international design code coverage available. Improve design quality and predict offshore structural performance using a unified analysis environment that enables the efficient exploration of alternatives. Streamline processes with automated structural workflows to apply specialized analyses essential to any offshore project, including:

• Nonlinear structural analysis
• Dynamic response analysis due to environmental loads
• Impact effects analysis
• Severe accidental loadings analysis

 

Improve the analysis and design process for all types of offshore structures using SACS integrated, offshore-specific capabilities. Choose the version that aligns with your project needs:

> SACS Offshore Structure – Save time with wizards to create high-fidelity models for each phase of the design process from initial through to final design, and redesign for lifecycle extension. Simplify management and analysis of complex models through automated structural workflows

> SACS Offshore Advanced – Produce optimized, high-quality topsides for fixed and floating structures by extending SACS Offshore Structure with wind loading analysis capability

> SACS Offshore Enterprise – Create fit-for-purpose designs by expanding SACS Offshore Advanced with wave loading to complete a full range of capabilities for static structural analysis and topside analysis, and for analysis of jackets, wharfs, and dolphin structures

 

 

  1. Mine Design Softwares:

  1. MineCycle Design: Mine Design and Mine Planning Software

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Optimize the economics of your mine plans with MineCycle™ Designer mine design software. Complete mine plans faster with a single environment for design, evaluation, and scheduling. Use the time savings to consider more options and find the best performing mine design. Support faster decisions across the enterprise with flexible and secure access to your design data.

Drive your mine’s performance by using MineCycle Designer to:

> Improve ore tonnage, strip ratios, and extraction distances with design optioneering

> Optimize design, crew management, and budget with on-the-fly mine planning

> Respond to sudden market changes and labor events more effectively with fast what-if studies

> Ensure your design data is available where and when you need it with native open formats

> Support faster and higher quality business decisions with agile reporting and analysis

 

CAPABILITIES

> Design underground mines

> Plan underground mines

> Update mine design

 

 

  1. Mine Cycle Survey: Mine Surveying Software

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Deliver more up-to-date survey data with MineCycle™ Survey mine survey software. Get survey results faster by slashing the time required to process measurements. Support faster decisions across the enterprise with flexible and secure access to your survey data.

Drive your mine’s performance by using MineCycle Survey to:

> Enable a continuous mine planning process with rapid comparison of as-planned versus as-mined

> Increase survey productivity with the advantage of the same application for all mine types

> Respond to sudden market changes and labor events more effectively with agile reporting

 

CAPABILITIES

> Measure mine progress

> Survey surface mines

> Survey underground mines

 

  1. MineCycle Material Handling: Bulk Material Handling Design Software

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Increase the speed and quality of your conceptual BMH designs with MineCycle™ Material Handling software. Save time and reduce errors with combined civil, structural, and mechanical design. Use the time savings to consider more options and find the best performing BMH design. Complete designs up to 30% faster and produce more competitive studies and bids.

With the only BMH design product made for the express needs of conceptual design, you can:

> Deliver studies and bids with more agility, less time, and lower cost

> Optimize on cost, footprint, and more to show the relative advantage of the proposed design

> Create fast and accurate project estimates by performing layout in the context of the full site

> Clearly express your design intent with 3D visuals produced straight from the layout model

> Speed the transition to FEL 3-4 with a ready-to-detail 3D model

 

CAPABILITIES

> Create and compare conceptual bulk material handling design options

> Design conceptual BMH site layout

> Perform multi-discipline conceptual BMH design

 

 

  1. Plant Design Softwares:

  1. OpenPlant Modeler: 3D Plant Design and Modeling Software

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/plant-design-software/openplant-modeler

 

Quickly and easily perform 3D design of your piping, HVAC, and electrical equipment with OpenPlant Modeler. Increase project team collaboration and speed up review cycles through the interoperability the software provides with open data models. You can also lower software costs by economically scaling your OpenPlant deployment to fit any size project.

CAPABILITIES

> Conduct 3D interference analysis

> Define and manage plant catalogs and specifications

> Define and manage plant objects

> Design a 3D plant physical model

> Manage plant design data

> Manage plant project documents and deliverables

> Model brownfield plants with point clouds

> Perform collaborative plant engineering

 

  1. OpenPlant PID: Piping and Instrumentation Diagram Software

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/plant-design-software/openplant-pid

 

Produce intelligent piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) with OpenPlant PID. Increase design collaboration and operations efficiency with software that makes P&IDs widely accessible through the ISO 15926 open data schema. Improve productivity and safety with P&IDs that link to operational systems and accurately reflect the as-built plant.

CAPABILITIES

> Define and manage plant catalogs and specifications

> Define and manage plant objects

> Design 2D plant schematic model

> Generate P&ID deliverables

> Integrate schematic and physical plant models

> Manage plant design data

> Manage plant project documents and deliverables

 

 

  1. OpenPlant Isometrics Manager - Intelligent Isometric Drawing Software

https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/plant-design-software/openplant-isometric-software

Increase the quality and accuracy of your isometric drawings with OpenPlant Isometrics Manager. Save time with the software’s ability to extract intelligent isometrics from multiple 3D sources. Improve efficiency on your projects and reduce costs through the interoperable and collaborative nature of the software.

Create and manage your project’s isometric deliverables with less effort using OpenPlant Isometrics Manager.

  1. Project Delivery and Infrastructure Asset Performance Softwares:

  1. Bentley Map Enterprise: 2D/3D Desktop GIS and Mapping Software

Use a GIS that does it all. Create, maintain, analyze, and share your geospatial, engineering, and business information in a powerful, yet familiar MicroStation environment. Work confidently with engineering-quality GIS to produce quality maps and unify disparate 2D/3D data.

> Work directly with point clouds, raster data, imagery and scalable terrain models to speed your workflows.

> Eliminate disparate data and improve interoperability (Oracle Spatial, Esri File Geodatabase, Esri SHP files, Microsoft SQL Server Spatial, i-models, Bing Maps, and more).

> Save time and eliminate rework with engineering-accurate data creation, editing, mapping, imaging, and 3D animation features.

> Use a strong yet flexible application program interface (API) for developing custom GIS applications.

> Increase productivity and improve decision making by giving field personnel fast access from a tablet with the Bentley Map Mobile app.

 

CAPABILITIES

> Capture existing context in 3D

> Conduct 2D and 3D spatial analysis

> Create scalable terrain models

> Develop custom GIS applications

> Incorporate data in native Esri formats

> Incorporate geospatial data from spatial databases

> Maintain 3D city models

> Manage geospatial information

> Manage land information and records

> Model geospatial objects

 

 

  1. Bentley Navigator - BIM Model Review and Collaboration Software

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With Navigator, you can make better decisions, faster throughout the lifecycle of a project, while reducing project risk. Imagine being able to:

> Gain insight into your projects and operations with clearer visibility into the information in 3D models

> Speed project delivery with immediate access to the latest information through one experience on every device

> Improve project coordination and accelerate collaboration through faster reliable resolution of issues from field staff

 

Work better together to speed approvals throughout design, construction, and operations using Navigator throughout the project lifecycle.

> During design, it helps you ensure the coordination of trades with the ability to perform clash detection for timely issue resolution.

> In construction, you can perform construction simulation and collaborate between office, site, and field to gain insight into project planning and execution for faster resolution of issues found in the field.

> During operations, you can improve the safety and speed of inspections and maintenance with the ability to see asset information within the context of 3D models.

 

CAPABILITIES

> Access drawings, documents, and models

> Conduct coordination reviews

> Connect to ProjectWise and other repositories

> Create visual reports

> Navigate models immersively

> Touch to navigate

> Use on any device