Juliacon 2024

Steel thin-walled structural analysis and design with Julia
07-12, 11:50–12:00 (Europe/Amsterdam), While Loop (4.2)

It turns out that Julia tooling is very good at predicting thin-walled structure behavior, especially those packages in the SciML ecosystem. In this presentation, examples will be provided that show how Julia’s speedy, reliable, and accessible computational tools are advancing structural design capabilities and practices when it comes to bread-and-butter steel building systems that employ thin-walled structural components.


It turns out that Julia tooling is very good at predicting thin-walled structure behavior, especially those packages in the SciML ecosystem. Most low and mid-rise buildings around the world have steel thin-walled structural components, in the roofs and walls and floors of hotels and condos and data centers. Thin-walled structures gain their strength and stiffness by being bent into complex shapes, and their behavior, including buckling deformation, are defined by systems of ordinary and partial differential equations. In this presentation, examples will be provided that show how Julia’s speedy, reliable, and accessible computational tools are advancing structural design capabilities and practices when it comes to bread-and-butter steel building systems that employ thin-walled structural components.

Cris Moen is CEO and President of RunToSolve LLC, a software R&D company founded in 2019 that specializing in structural system analysis and design automation. He completed his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University (2004-2008) focusing on thin-walled structures.