Revolutionize Your Structural Design & Verification Process With SDC Verifier
Streamline Compliance & Elevate Structural Engineering with SDC Verifier
Discover how SDC Verifier empowers engineers to streamline design, ensure compliance, and accelerate decision-making with its all-in-one solution for modeling, FEA analysis, industry-standard verification, and automated reporting. As an addon to Simcenter Femap and Simcenter 3D, it automatically verifies FEA models against multiple industry standards, offering predefined checks for fatigue, stiffener and plate buckling, beam members, joints, and welds—making it an indispensable tool for structural engineering professionals across industries.
SDC for Femap or Simcenter 3D is a powerful structural verification solution engineered to to seamlessly integrate within the environment. It empowers engineers to effortlessly verify designs against industry-specific standards, optimize for cost and material efficiency, and automate reporting – all without leaving their familiar workspace.
Key User Benefits
- Accelerated Verification: Automate fatigue, buckling, weld, bolt, and custom design checks with a comprehensive standards library.
- Time-Saving Efficiency: Work directly with your Femap .modfem or Simcenter 3D .fem models, eliminating redundant model creation or transfers.
- Optimized Designs: Identify cost-saving optimization opportunities based on cross-sections, weld types, yield stresses, and plate thicknesses.
- Effortless Reporting: Generate detailed, customizable reports with a single click – suitable for PLM/SPDM systems.
- Advanced Automation: Harness advanced project automation capabilities using the open API.
Value of Using SDC Verifier
Enhanced Efficiency
Reduce design cycles by automating routine tasks like load combination calculations and code checks. With SDC Verifier, you can focus on creativity and innovation rather than manual processes.
Unmatched Accuracy
Leverage the trusted Simcenter NASTRAN solver to achieve precise analysis results. Automatically verify designs against 40+ global standards or your custom criteria for confidence in every calculation.
Streamlined Reporting
Generate comprehensive, customizable reports in just a few clicks. SDC Verifier’s template-based reporting system ensures consistency, saves time, and simplifies project communication.
Seamless Integration
SDC Verifier works independently or integrates effortlessly with Ansys, Femap, and Simcenter 3D. Whether you're starting from scratch or importing existing FEA models, SDC Verifier adapts to your workflow.
Drastically Reduced Design Cycles
Complete projects faster without compromising quality.
Ensure Code Compliance
Meet safety and regulatory standards effortlessly.
Boost Innovation
Automate repetitive tasks, freeing engineers to explore creative solutions.
SDC Verifier Features
Standards Library
Access a vast collection of 40+ global engineering standards and regulations for structural code compliance.
Covers major design codes such as Eurocode, AISC, DNV, API ,and more, ensuring applicability across industries.
Structural Recognition Tools
Automatic detection of beams, plates, welds, and joints, significantly reducing manual input time.
Accurate classification of structural elements for streamlined code checking.
Customizable Verification
Perform user-defined checks according to specific company or project requirements.
Modify existing rules within the standards library for tailored assessments.
Design Optimization
Identify optimal values for cross-sections, weld types, yield stresses, and plate thicknesses based on code check results.
Achieve weight and cost savings without sacrificing structural integrity.
Automatic Reporting
Generate clear, concise reports with plots, tables, calculations, and code-compliance summaries.
Export reports to Word, PowerPoint, or PDF formats for easy sharing and archival.
One-click report regeneration for effortless design iteration updates.
Open AI
Integrate SDC for Femap or Simcenter 3D with other engineering tools and workflows.
Automate complex processes and customize functionality to match unique needs.

SDC Verifier's Unique Recognition Tools
Joints & Connections Finder: recognizes the different types of connections (1D, 2DY and 2DZ, 3D, etc.) used to determine buckling length, define weld classification and find the connections for Joint Check.
Beam Member Finder: recognizes beam members (buckling) lengths for three directions. Buckling length is calculated between the joints and does not depend on the model mesh.
Weld Finder: recognizes welds and automatically transforms stresses from element local direction to weld direction (X – parallel, Y – perpendicular to the weld), required by fatigue standards (FEM, Eurocode, etc.).
Panel Finder: automatically recognizes sections (frames, longitudinals, decks, curved/inclined sections) and buckling plates with the dimensions (length, width, and orientation) used by plate buckling Standards (ABS, DNV, EN 1993-1-5).
Structural Checks in SDC Verifier

Fatigue Check
Implemented according to Eurocode 3, FEM 1.001, and DIN15018 Standards, this check utilizes Smith Correction and Palmgren-Miner S-N curve methods. It calculates fatigue life consumption based on stress variation and load cycles, accommodating various loading patterns.
Notch Group Classification
Fatigue strength of welds depends on quality and stress direction—along the weld (X), perpendicular to the weld (Y), and in shear (XY). For example, Eurocode 3 provides specific classifications for the X-direction.
Plate Buckling Check
Automatically recognizes plates and dimensions using the Panel Finder and checks against ABS 2004/2014 and DNV 1995/RP-C201 2010 rules. Stresses are converted to plate directions, and results are visualized across sections with non-compliant areas highlighted in red.
Members and Joints Check
Large lattice structures are checked using Standards such as AISC/ANSI 360-10, API RP-2A, ISO 19902, Norsok N004, and Eurocode 3. The overall section behavior is derived from the weakest category of cross-section parts like webs and flanges, assessed for each load case.
Joint Check
Tubular joints are automatically recognized, with geometrical parameters and brace classifications recalculated for each load situation to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Custom Checks with Formula Editor
Engineers can modify existing Standard formulas or create custom checks using model properties and recognized dimensions, offering unmatched flexibility for structural analysis.
Pre-Processing
Analyze various load combinations, including wave loads, snow loads, wind loads, governing loads, and buoyancy. This allows engineers to model and evaluate potential situations comprehensively before running structural checks.
Post-Processing
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- Peak Finder: Identifies peak zones in output results, displaying them with specialized plots and summary tables. This feature works for FEA results like stresses, forces, and displacements, as well as SDC Verifier checks such as Fatigue and Beam Buckling.
- Governing Load Tool: Extracts critical loads from extensive load combinations, enabling engineers to focus on essential scenarios and significantly reduce calculation time.
- Results exceeding limits are highlighted in red on user-defined selections for easy identification.


SDC Verifier's Reporting
Report DesignerSimplifies the creation of structured reports, with options to preview, export to Word, modify, and regenerate after changes.
Presentation DesignerGenerates PowerPoint presentations directly within SDC Verifier, streamlining the process of sharing results.

SDC Verifier's Enterprise Features
Optimization ToolHelps determine the best design decisions by evaluating various combinations of design inputs to optimize structures for specific usage conditions.
SDC APIAutomates check processes and interactions with SDC Verifier using a C#-based script. Ideal for automating repetitive tasks like running multiple reports overnight, saving time and reducing manual effort.
Flexible licensing options allow users to access SDC Verifier through a free trial, purchase, or short-term rental to suit project needs.