Save the zipped file to your local hard drive, unzip it and run setup.exe.  To unzip the file you will need Winzip www.winzip.com. You will need to contact us by phone or email to obtain a time-limited software key to try the program on a trail basis.  If you are a university student or faculty member contact Yang Thao to receive an educational license.  

 

Imbsen Software Systems

9912 Business Park Drive, Suite 130

Sacramento, CA 95827

phone (916) 366-0683

fax (916) 366-1501

www.imbsen.com                             
 

CAPP v1.0.5 FEATURES


CAPP is a fully functional 2-D pushover program with unique and unprecedented analytical and modeling capabilities.  CAPP is applicable to both the nonlinear analysis of buildings and bridges with output results generated and reported in a practical and engineering report format.  Important features include:

  • Multi-Linear Nonlinear Hinge Elements to model any connection and/or plastic hinge behavior including strain hardening, strain softening, asymmetric moment rotation response, and rigid-plastic capabilities.

  • Moment-Axial Force interaction hinges to capture effects of axial load on moment yielding.

  • Multi-Linear Nonlinear Axial Spring Elements to capture behavior of nonlinear foundations, unbounded brace behavior, buckling braces, and nonlinear trusses.

  • P - D effects

  • Fully functional beam elements with offsets, releases, and moment rotation hinges.

  • Pile Elements that include bilinear P-Y curves and T-Z curves with varying effects through the depth and plastic hinges that form within the elements as yield moments are exceeded.

  • Full pushover capabilities with any user defined load pattern and user defined limit state.

ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES
CAPP uses an event-to-event load incrementation strategy coupled with an equilibrium error correcting Newton-Raphson algorithm to ensure accuracy of calculated response.  Load Combinations allow for combining the non-push load cases together with load factors before the push analysis is performed to capture effects of the structure's initial state of stress.  CAPP allows the user to analyze various push load patterns in the same model file to envelope overall structure behavior.  Graphically, during analysis, the user can observe structure nonlinear deformations, location of nonlinearity and various limit states of yielding components.

USER INTERFACE
The CAPP user interface is easy to use and quick to learn.  Nodes and members can be quickly generated.  Column lines can be highlighted, copied, and pasted to a new location or can just be dragged to a new coordinate.  With the thumbnail viewer, the user can quickly jump from one area to another and zooms into a detailed structural model.  The Input File editor allows the user to change the input file directly and update it graphically or change items within the interface and see the automatic updating within the input file.  As with the companion program XTRACT, all material, sections, hinges, elements, reports, and data are available in a tree view Project Manager for easy access, manipulation, and extraction.  The powerful interface allows the user to view the force diagrams, reactions, displaced shapes, locations of nonlinearity, and trace element/hinge nonlinear behavior at any load step, from gravity to collapse.

READY REPORT GENERATION
CAPP provides a professional suite of single page engineering reports tailored to the needs of the production office.  The Push Over Analysis Report includes most significant engineering data with the bilinearized force displacement (pushover curve) depicting overall system response.  Element reports show local diagrams, plastic rotations, displaced shapes, and relevant member data.

CAPP is a Windows based program that runs under Windows 2000, XP, Server 00' & 03' and Windows NT 4.0 with sp4, and has the following  hardware requirements.

  • PC with Pentium Processor

  • 16Meg RAM (32Meg of RAM recommended)

  • 5MB of free hard drive space needed for CAPP

Annual support and maintenance will be provided by Imbsen Software Systems for an additional, optional fee.  Customer Support includes:

  • Customer assistance by fax telephone and electronic mail.

  • Assistance in data preparation and interpretation of results.

The following is included with each order:

  • Software media

  • On-line Help System

  • Warranty

  • 30 Day Free Support

  • Shipping*

Orders will be processed after Imbsen Software Systems receives a purchase order or letter of intent by fax or mail.

*Software packages are shipped via UPS Ground Service. Additional shipping costs will be charged for overseas orders or overnight delivery.

Imbsen Software Systems

9912 Business Park Drive, Suite 130

Sacramento, CA 95827

phone (916) 366-0683

fax (916) 3660-1501

ytthao@imbsen.com