{"id":940,"date":"2011-11-10T18:37:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T02:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Analyzing-structures-in-accordance-with-design-standards\/ba-p\/334804"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:03:37","slug":"analyzing-structures-in-accordance-with-design-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/analyzing-structures-in-accordance-with-design-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyzing structures in accordance with design standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Returning to the subject of safety for structures such as cranes, bridges and buildings (see my previous <A href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/how-fea-software-can-help-to-design-for-safety\/#more-6276\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Designing for Safety<\/A> blog), one of our partners <A href=\"http:\/\/www.femto.nl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femto Engineering<\/A> has created a program to help verify structures in accordance with required building and safety standards. The program is called <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sdcverifier.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SDC Verifier<\/A> \u2013 SDC standing for Structural Design Codes \u2013 and it\u2019s been built on top of our own <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/femap\/index.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap<\/A> pre- and postprocessor <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/plm\/definition\/cae.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CAE software<\/A> using the API (Application Programming Interface). This is another great example of one of our partners adding value by enhancing the functionality of our simulation products through the API.<BR \/><BR \/><\/P><DIV style=\"background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;padding: 3px;font: 11px\/1.4em Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0.5em 0pt 0.5em 0.8em;width:360px;\"><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-7684 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/analyzing-structures-accordance-design-standards\/sdcverifier_03\/\"><IMG class=\"size-full wp-image-7684\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2011\/11\/SDCVerifier_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\" \/><\/A><DIV style=\"text-align:center;\">SDC Verifier in Femap<\/DIV> <\/DIV><BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<!--more--><BR \/><BR \/><DIV style=\"background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;padding: 3px;font: 11px\/1.4em Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0.5em 0pt 0.5em 0.8em;width:360px;\"><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-7685 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/analyzing-structures-accordance-design-standards\/sdcverifier_04\/\"><IMG class=\"size-full wp-image-7685\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2011\/11\/SDCVerifier_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"239\" \/><\/A><DIV style=\"text-align:center;\">SDC Verifier<\/DIV> <\/DIV><BR \/><BR \/>Working with Femap, SDC Verifier helps to build a complete set of load cases that the structure is likely to have to endure. These loads are used in the calculation of many different structural checks in accordance with design standards, after which SDC Verifier creates a full and detailed calculation report of the findings.<BR \/><BR \/><DIV style=\"background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;padding: 3px;font: 11px\/1.4em Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0.5em 0pt 0.5em 0.8em;width:360px;\"><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-7686 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/analyzing-structures-accordance-design-standards\/sdcverifier_05\/\"><IMG class=\"size-full wp-image-7686\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2011\/11\/SDCVerifier_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"284\" \/><\/A><DIV style=\"text-align:center;\">SDC Verifier<\/DIV> <\/DIV><BR \/><BR \/>With the extensive structural checking that SDC Verifier performs, the likelihood of an accident through design oversight becomes greatly reduced, making the world a safer place. If you wish to find out more about this, go to Femto Engineering\u2019s <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sdcverifier.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SDC Verifier web site<\/A>.<BR \/><BR \/>Alastair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning to the subject of safety for structures such as cranes, bridges and buildings (see my previous Designing for Safety blog), one of our partners Femto Engineering has created a program to hel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}