Calculate the requested load cases
Check model plausibility, analysis settings, solver completion, and result availability.
SKL-000004
Calculate RFEM models and inspect traceable results
Select an existing RFEM model and the required load cases. Mia checks the calculation state and reports forces, deformations, reactions, and diagrams from complete original data.
Mia guides you step by step
She guides you through the inputs and explains the results.
Worked example
6 m beam under a 10 kN/m uniform load
Calculated reference: structural response- System
- Simply supported beam, L = 6.00 m
- Section
- Rectangle 100 x 200 mm, strong-axis bending
- Stiffness
- E = 210 GPa; Iy = 6.6666667e-5 m4
- Loading
- LC101: 10 kN/m downward; no self-weight
- Analysis
- Linear elastic; shear deformation disabled
Analyze the existing simply supported 6 m benchmark beam, rectangular section 100 x 200 mm, E = 210 GPa, Iy = 6.6666667e-5 m4, LC101 = 10 kN/m downward, no self-weight, shear deformation disabled, linear static analysis. Read member 1 and both support reactions and compare with the stored reference.
Calculate the example with MiaKey results
- Maximum bending moment
- 45.000 kNm at x = 3.00 m
- Maximum shear magnitude
- 30.000 kN
- Support reactions
- 30.000 kN upward at each support
- Maximum deflection
- 12.0536 mm at x = 3.00 m
Reference values calculated analytically and independently checked by a 20-element stiffness model and RFEM 6.15.0007. RFEM deflection: 12.053850 mm, deviation +0.002312%. No design-code verification or saved CALC chat.
- — Prescribed loads are unfactored benchmark loads, not a ULS combination.
- — No self-weight, shear deformation, second-order effects, or support settlement.
- — Linear-elastic response only; no resistance, buckling, or serviceability-limit verification.
Required inputs
- Connected RFEM session and an identified model
- Requested load cases or combinations
- Members, nodes, or diagram numbers
- Result components and required axes
- Calculation policy and optional reference data
What you receive
- Calculation status and unresolved warnings
- Member forces and support reactions with units
- Deformations or requested modal results
- Original-data diagrams and governing locations
- Reference differences and explicit data gaps
- FE mesh statistics when requested
Start from an input template
These templates prefill the form with typical inputs. They are not calculated results; the calculation runs in CALC.
Prepare your calculation
Select the RFEM results to analyze
System sketch
All required fields completed
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What this skill checks
Read forces and deformations
Report selected member or node results with load case, units, axes, and governing locations.
Plot original result data
Check completeness and use the same original data for diagrams and sampled extrema.
Compare with a reference
Show signed and absolute differences against an identified reference; no invented design verdict.
Standards & references
Scope and limitations
- Requires an accessible RFEM model for solver results; reference examples do not replace that model.
- No design-code checks or utilization ratios; use RFEM Model Design.
- No automatic creation or modification of benchmark geometry or supports.
- Incomplete data block dependent diagrams and extrema; no synthetic replacement curves.
- Time-history setup and full response-spectrum validation require a dedicated workflow.
Frequently asked questions
How is a successful calculation confirmed?
Mia checks the solver success flag, warnings, and current results for each requested loading. An absent exception alone is not proof of success.
What happens when a result table is too large?
Mia uses supported complete exports or bounded reads, checks coverage, and computes extrema before reducing a plot. If completeness cannot be verified, the dependent result is withheld.
Are these examples design checks?
No. They are reproducible structural-response benchmarks. Matching a reference does not establish resistance or compliance with a design standard.
Can I use results after changing the model?
Only after recalculating the affected loading and verifying current results. The read-only policy reports stale results without starting a calculation.
Ready for your first check?
Start with the example and adapt it to your structural system.
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