Castalia srl is a structural engineering company born in 1991.
This is one of the websites of Castalia srl. Other Castalia’s sites are:
- www.castaliaweb.com, the main Castalia website, in Italian
- www.steelchecks.com, the English version of the main website
- www.nodiacciaio.it, the Italian version of this website
- www.castalialab.com, the website fully related to 3D Printing, prototyping, and virtualization
- www.esercizistatica.it, website related to teaching Statics to College Students (Italian)
The main activities of Castalia can be summarized in this way:
- software development for structural engineering.
- structural analysis consulting and validations, especially for steel structures and for seismic analyses.
- research of new analysis methods and in depth study of the existing methods.
- publication of papers and books.
Since 2018 Castalia has also started a collateral activity of 3D Printing and Virtualization.
Getting more into details…
- Referring to software development, Castalia realized many analysis programs, using or not finite element techniques, with graphic interface. The most important are:
- Sargon, 3D FEM modeling and checks according to several standards. Best fit for steel structures.
- Linear static analyses.
- Modal analyses.
- Response spectrum analyses.
- Non linear static analyses (geometric, material and contact non linearities).
- Frequency response analyses.
- Modal Time History.
- Buckling analyses.
- Beam elements, with or without eccentricities and semi-rigid joints, trusses (also no-tension and no-compression, or with friction), spring, membrane, thin and thick plate-shell, solids, special elements for bolts and welds.
- CNR 10011, NTC, Eurocode 3, Eurocode 5, AISC ASD, AISC LRFD, BS.
- CSE, steel connections (nodes) with generic layout: design, analysis and check. Linear and not linear range. FEM models or closed formulae.
- CESCO, planar frames.
- CESCO PLUS, a more powerful version of CESCO.
- SICS, steel-racks checks.
- SEVEN, evolution of the former.
- PALLETPREV, design of steel-racks and budgeting.
- CLASS4, classification according to Eurocode 3 of steel cross-sections.
- Sargon, 3D FEM modeling and checks according to several standards. Best fit for steel structures.
- Consulting, in more than 30 years, referred to civil, mechanical and naval structures, among which important cruise ships.
- Research led to several original and innovative improvements, in the field of steel structures, seismic hazard and analyses, steel connections.
- Seven books have been published, one with Thomas Telford (now ICE: Structural Analysis with Finite Elements) and one with Wiley (Steel Connection Analysis), in English. Besides, several papers have been published in International Peer Reviewed magazines. See the Publications page.