Products Overview

VisualAnalysis is the IES tool for any kind of idealized truss analysis or design.  Create custom trusses in any material, do remodeling or repair work on existing trusses.

VisualAnalysis is the primary IES product for frame design, whether you need to analyze a single member or something huge. AnalysisGroup can analyze continuous beam or grade-beams.

VisualAnalysis offers raw plate/shells for finite element analysis of walls and slabs, and has flat concrete slab design support.  AnalysisGroup has simplified analysis of specific plate bending or shear wall problems.

QuickRWall is dedicated to the solution of retaining wall problems, whether they are concrete or masonry, cantilevered or gravity walls.  You can solve full 3D retaining wall analysis in VisualAnalysis, through a more complex finite element solution, with less traditional soil-structure interaction than in QuickRWall.

IES offers four tools with some footing analysis or design solutions.  QuickFooting for simple spread footings,  VisualFoundation for combined or mat footings, and AnalysisGroup for rectangular mat footing analysis or grade beam analysis.  VisualAnalysis is so general-purpose you can analyze footings, but there is no specific design support.

For circular tanks, AnalysisGroup provides the easiest way to analyze.  If you have complications, non-symmetric loading, etc, then VisualAnalysis is the way to go.

VisualAnalysis, AnalysisGroup, and ShapeBuilder can all work with structural steel, including helping with torsion and sheer stresses common in steel.  VisualAnalysis has steel design support.

VisualAnalysis, AnalysisGroup, and ShapeBuilder can all work with wood.  VisualAnalysis has wood design support.

All IES products can analyze reinforced concrete structures.  We do not currently offer any products for post-tension design, or prestress. VisualAnalysis can design beams, columns or flat slabs.  ShapeBuilder can calculate cracked properties, interaction diagrams, and stress/strain.  All of the Quick* products design concrete, as does VisualFoundation.

VisualAnalysis, AnalysisGroup and ShapeBuilder can all work with cold-formed steel shapes in analysis.  VisualAnalysis has design support, and ShapeBuilder can calculate effective section properties.

QuickMasonry designs many masonry components, QuickRWall helps with masonry retaining walls, otherwise some analysis of masonry components may be accomplished in VisualAnalysis or AnalysisGroup.

VisualAnalysis, AnalysisGroup and ShapeBuilder can all work with aluminum shapes.  IES does not have any design (code check) support for aluminum at this time.

Our analysis products: VisualAnalysis, AnalysisGroup, and ShapeBuilder can all work with any linear, elastic, isotropic materials.  Approximate analysis of orthotropic materials where one direction is primary (like fiberglass shapes in bending or tension/compression) is possible in these tools as well.