ABSTRACT
With the rapid development of high-rise buildings and long-span structures in the recent years, High Performance Simulation (HPS) is becoming more and more important, sometimes even crucial, for the structure design and building construction. The traditional design softwares, such as PKPM, ETABS, MIDAS, YJK, and so on, can’t match the advanced requirements of HPS. On the other hand, the large scale general Finite Element Analysis (FEA) softwares, such as ABAQUS, ANSYS, ADINA, etc., although have the powerful computational abilities, but can’t be applied directly to the architectural structure analysis and design, due to the fact that their preprocessors are inconvenient for building modeling and their postprocessors can’t present computational results according to the building structure specifications, say, the civil codes and the customs of engineering.
