Products Overview

VisualAnalysis is the IES tool for any kind of frame or truss analysis or design. 

VisualAnalysis offers raw plate/shells for finite element analysis of walls and slabs, and has flat concrete slab design support.  VisualPlate lets you analyze and check walls or slabs in pure bending (2D model, out-of-plane loading). QuickMasonry designs many masonry bearing or shear walls,

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.

VisualShearWall will analyze rigid or flexible diaphragm problems to calculate shear-wall forces in many walls, arbitrary layout and with openings. VisualAnalysis lets you model just about anything, including building frames that include shear walls. QuickMasonry designs many masonry shear walls, one at a time (without openings), QuickConcreteWall designs a single concrete shear wall, without openings and details SBE's.

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

VisualAnalysis is the way to go for full 3D tank modeling for elevated tanks, buried tanks, or metal tanks. Geometry is flexible and arbitrary, so circular tanks, rectangular tanks, baffles, holes, etc. are all possible. VisualPlate allows you to analyze a flat tank-wall in concrete or metal.

VisualAnalysis, and ShapeBuilder can all work with structural steel, including helping with torsion and sheer stresses common in steel.  VisualAnalysis has steel design support. VisualPlate supports steel plate bending projects.

VisualAnalysis, and ShapeBuilder can all work with wood.  VisualAnalysis has wood design support. VisualShearWall lets you model a wood shear wall system, performing a flexible-diaphragm analysis to determine wall forces.

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.  QuickRWall, QuickFooting , and QuickConcreteWall design concrete, as does VisualFoundation. VisualPlate lets you model flat concrete slab-bending problems and provides main rebar requirements. VisualShearWall lets you perform a rigid-diaphragm analysis of a concrete shear wall system to determine wall forces.

VisualAnalysis 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.

VisualAnalysis and ShapeBuilder can both work with aluminum shapes.  VisualAnalysis provides ADM checks for structural aluminum members.

Our analysis products: VisualAnalysis 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.