ETABS 2015 (64-bit)

ETABS

Computers and Structures, Inc. (CSI) is a structural and earthquake engineering software company founded in 1975  and based in Walnut Creek, California with additional office location in New York. The structural analysis and design software CSI produce include SAP2000, CSiBridge, ETABS, SAFE, PERFORM-3D, and CSiCOL.
One of Computer and Structure, Inc.'s software, ETABS, was used to create the mathematical model of the Burj Khalifa, currently the world's tallest building, designed by Chicago, Illinois-based Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM).In the Structural analysis section of their December 2009 Structural Engineer magazine article entitled Design and construction of the world's tallest building: The Burj Dubai, since renamed to Burj Khalifa, William F. Baker, S.E. and James J. Pawlikowski, S.E. mention that gravity, wind, and seismic response were all characterized using ETABS. Further, ETABS' geometric nonlinear capability provided for P-Delta Effect consideration.

 
 
 

 
2015 (64-bit) 

Processor

• Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64
• Recommended: Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2, or better
• A CPU that has SSE2 support is required
• The SAPFire® Analytical Engine includes a multi-threaded solver that can take advantage of multi-core CPUs

Operating System

• Microsoft® Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or later, Microsoft® Windows Vista, Microsoft® Windows 7, Microsoft® Windows 8 or Microsoft® Windows 10, 32- and 64-bit versions
• With a 64 bit operating system, the SAPFire® Analytical Engine can utilize more than 4 GB of RAM, making it possible to more efficiently solve larger problems

Video Card

• Minimum: Supporting 1024 by 768 resolution and 16 bits colors for standard (GDI+) graphics mode
• Recommended: Discrete video card with NVIDIA GPU or equivalent and dedicated graphics RAM (512 Mb or larger) for DirectX graphics mode. The card must be DirectX 11 Compatible.
• DirectX graphics mode fully utilizes the hardware acceleration provided by a GPU and dedicated graphics RAM.
• For better graphics quality in terms of anti-aliasing and line thickness, the device raster drawing capabilities should support legacy depth bias.

Memory

• Minimum: 2 GB for XP O/S, 4 GB for Vista/Windows 7 O/S
• Recommended: 4 GB for 32-bit O/S, 8 GB or more for 64-bit O/S
• The problem size that can be solved & the solution speed increases considerably with more RAM
• Vista/Windows 7 requires more RAM than XP for the operating system itself

Disk Space

• 6 GB to install the software.
• Recommended: 500GB or larger Hard Disk Drive (7200 rpm SATA)
• Additional space required for running and storing model files and analysis results, dependent upon the size of the models

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