Design steel and wood connections, including base plates with concrete anchorage checks.
Shear Connections
Design simple shear connections for I-beams or channels connecting to girders or columns.
- Interaction of shear & axial forces
- Eccentric bolt & weld group checks
- Design coped beams
- Check connection detailing
Moment Connections
Design fully restrained beam-to-column moment connections and column splices
- Combined axial, shear, & moment
- Easy adjustments to increase capacity
- Specify fillet or CJP welds
- Automatic detailing checks
Base Plate & Anchorage
AISC Design Guide 1 or Finite Element Analysis with biaxial bending. Concrete and anchorage checks too.
- Checks per AISC 360 and ACI 318
- Plate bending and bolt or anchor checks
- Concrete bearing checks
- I-beam, HSS, pipe, rectangular or round columns
Base Plate
Wood Connections
Design wood bolted shear and wood fastener withdrawal connections per NDS.
- Includes adjustment factors
- Handles lag screws, wood screws, and nails
- Checks connection yield modes
- Wood or steel side members
Wood Bolted Shear
Wood Fastener Withdrawal
Transparent Reports
Get hand-calculation-style reports with all limit state checks, equations, and code references.
- Instant status (pass/fail)
- Drill-down to intermediate values
- One-page summary report
- Customize report details
Integration
Skip tedious bookkeeping by importing load sets from VisualAnalysis, VisualFoundation, or ConcreteBending.
- Design multiple connections as a group
- Import loads and geometry
- Integrate various connection types with VA
- Integrate base plate connections with VF or CB
VAConnect Features
For complete information regarding the limit-states checked and training videos, refer to the User's Guide.
- Steel Base Plates Anchored to Concrete
- Shear Tabs (Single-Plate Connections)
- Double Angle Bolted Connections
- Double Angle Bolted/Welded Connections
- Double Angle Welded Connections
- Double Angle Welded/Bolted Connections
- Welded Flange Plate Moment Connections
- Bolted Flange Plate Moment Connections
- Bolted End Plate Moment Connections
- Column Splice Connections
- Beam Over HSS Connections
- Wood Bolted Shear Connections
- Wood Fastener Withdrawal Connections
- Apply loads in multiple service load cases (e.g. Dead, Live, Seismic, etc.)
- Automatic building code load combinations are available
- Includes IBC, ASCE, and NBC Load Combination
- Create custom load combinations in any project
- Create patterned load cases
- Create Load Sets so one connection can be designed for use in multiple locations
- Report includes graphics of the model
- Reports provide detailed hand style calculations
- Customize reports to include specific detailed calculations or tables
- Print Preview mode while working with reports
- Print to any printer including PDF
- Export reports to .doc or .xlsx
- Steel checks per AISC 360 LRFD
- Bolted end plate per AISC Design Guide 4
- Base plate per AISC Design Guide 1
- Concrete and anchorage checks per ACI 318
- Wood checks per NDS
- Load combinations per IBC, ASCE 7, or NBC
- VAConnect works as stand-alone products for quick connection checks or design
- VAConnect can be launched from within VisualAnalysis, VisualFoundation, and ConcreteBending for importing:
- Member shape geometry
- Names and design criteria settings
- Design Forces from many LRFD load combinations and load sets
Click to View a Sample Report 
One Page Summary
Custom with Equations
Custom, Sketches & Tables
Integrate with VisualAnalysis
Try VisualAnalysis and VAConnect together to export connections and design them seamlessly. The free trials are fully functional and integrate smoothly. The BuildingSuite includes VisualAnalysis Advanced, VisualFoundation, VAConnect, and ShapeBuilder—bundled at a discount. Learn more about suites and product integration.
