Bentley Multiframe 2024

Bentley’s Multiframe helps structural engineers review their tank structure to meet class requirements and optimize it for strength and weight. It can be used for furnace, deck, superstructure, and propulsion strength calculations. When designing a steel and aluminum tank, there is a range of structural analysis methods that can be used to assess the tank’s structural capacity and compliance with class requirements.

This software is a beam element based system that allows you to quickly model and analyze tank structures and perform static and dynamic analyses of their structural behavior. It is an ideal complement to full finite element analysis and less accurate plate calculations.

Multiframe can load a geometry file from a structure or any other structural modeling system and then provides a wide range of tools for applying structural properties such as constraints, materials and section shapes. Facilities include creating a load family and then performing a static or dynamic analysis. Static results can be viewed in terms of the representation of forces, stresses and deflections. Dynamic results include natural frequencies and mode shapes or more detailed historical results for different load times.

Features and functions of Multiframe software:

• Graphical creation of constraints, loads and geometric shapes
• Possibility to zoom
• Tool Tip feature to display guides in the joints and limbs section
• OpenGL rendering
• Selection by box, line, member type, section type, etc.
• Automatic generation of page elements
• Shape editor for calculating section properties of non-standard shapes

Multiframe  system requirements

Operating System
Windows XP Service Pack 3 or greater
Windows Server 2003 & 2008
Windows Vista
Windows7