Awards

ETABS: Top Seismic Product of the Century. 

On April 17, 2006 at a black-tie gala in San Francisco, CA, the Applied Technology Council (ATC) and Engineering News Record (ENR) honored Computers and Structures’ ETABS software as one of the “Top Seismic Products of the 20th Century.” Selected by an independent ATC-commissioned jury, the awards were presented in conjunction with the “100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference Commemorating the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.”
ETABS was the first program to take into account the unique properties inherent in a mathematical model of a building, allowing a computer representation to be constructed in the same fashion as a real building: floor by floor, story by story. ETABS uses terminology familiar to the building designer such as columns, beams, braces and walls rather than nodes and finite elements.
In announcing the selection, the award jury had this to say about ETABS: “Developed by Professor Ed Wilson of the University of California, Berkeley in 1973, and subsequently enhanced and marketed by Computers and Structures, Inc., the ETABS computer program was the first widely adopted structural software to offer seismic analysis capabilities of three-dimensional buildings. The SAP and TABS series of programs paved the way for a multitude of computer programs for linear and nonlinear analysis of structures that have revolutionized the seismic design and assessment of structures.”
ETABS was the only software product to receive this accolade. In accepting the award, CSI President Ashraf Habibullah said: “It is truly an honor to receive such a prestigious award. For more than 30 years we have been working hard to make ETABS and our other products the most useful and productive analysis and design software on the market for structural engineers, and having this work acknowledged by such a respected panel makes us extremely proud. Although all of us at CSI take great pleasure in receiving this honor, we promise not to rest on our laurels, as we expect to receive this award once again for the 21st century!"

ETABS: Honor Award in Engineering Software.

ETABS won on August 2002 prestigious AISC 2002 Hot Product Award in the category of Engineering Software. The Modern Steel Construction newsletter was mentining about ETABS: "ETABS version 8 is a remarkable step up for an already high-quality software program. It comprehensively integrates, automates and optimizes the structural analysis and design of multi-story buildings. Using integrated physical object-based modelling concepts, complete structural models can now be created with a significantly reduced number of structural objects when compared to a conventional analytical finite element model, resulting in increased accuracy and productivity. The software is also the first structural package to incorporate a module specifically for the design of staggered truss systems. In addition, new numerical techniques now address issues that structural engineers have struggled with for decades, such as panel-zone deformations and the efficient modelling of floor diaphragms. "

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