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LimitState specializes in the development of powerful, yet easy-to-use software applications which harness unique optimization technology to rapidly identify critical collapse mechanisms and associated margins of safety. This allows engineers to move beyond simple 'automated hand calculations' and predefined mechanisms, but without the need to resort to significantly more complex and potentially cumbersome techniques.
THE COMPANY
LimitState’s headquarters at The Innovation Centre in Sheffield, UK
LimitState develops software products and supplies training courses, seminars and related consultancy services for structural and geotechnical engineers. Our innovative software products use novel computational limit analysis techniques to rapidly and robustly analyse the ultimate (collapse) limit state.
Our training courses and seminars are designed to cover the fundamental principles which underpin various key structural and geotechnical applications, with the highly visual output from LimitState software being used to reinforce these principles in an extremely effective manner.
Founded in 2006 by academic co-founders Matthew Gilbert, Colin Smith, Wael Darwich and Andy Tyas, the company has maintained close links with academia, and the ethos of innovation and the desire to continually push the boundaries is carried throughout the company.
PRODUCTS
LimitState:GEO Powerful geotechnical analysis software
LimitState:GEO provides unique geotechnical stability analysis capabilities to rapidly determine the critical failure mechanism and margin of safety for any type of problem.
Flexible modelling
Tackle any ultimate limit state analysis or design problem, involving e.g. slopes, walls, foundations, reinforced soil, or complex combined systems.
Unique optimization technology
Uses ‘Discontinuity Layout Optimization’ technology to identify critical failure mechanisms that traditional methods cannot.
LimitState:RING Powerful masonry arch analysis software
Trusted by major consulting engineers, bridge owners and universities across the world, LimitState:RING is the industry-leading software application for the rapid analysis of masonry arch bridges.
Understand more
Interactively answer ‘what if’ questions to gain a clearer understanding of the influence of key parameters and see visualizations of modes of response - many of which are missed by conventional tools.
LimitState:SLAB Automated yield-line analysis software
LimitState:SLAB is the only commercially available software to systematically automate the well-known yield-line analysis method for concrete slabs, allowing the ultimate load capacity and critical failure mechanism to be calculated in seconds.
Reveal hidden strength in RC slabs
The yield-line method will often highlight that an existing slab has reserves of capacity, or that a new slab requires considerably less reinforcement than indicated by other methods.
