RFEM is a software from Dlubal company, which is specially developed for performing complex calculations and 3D finite element analysis. By using this software, different structures can be designed and analyzed; This software is used to determine and design structures, determine raw materials, calculate weight on different parts of the structure, design walls, columns, plates and shells. This software allows you to design composite structures as well as other contact models and elements.

This software is able to calculate and report all kinds of important parameters of the structure, such as the amount of internal forces, the amount of deformations, the amount of stresses, the amount of auxiliary and support forces and the amount of soil surface tension.

Key capabilities of Dlubal RFEM software:
- Structure design and 3D finite element analysis
- Calculation of internal and external forces
- Determination of structures and raw materials
- Calculation of soil surface tension
- Performing BIM projects and creating structure guides
- Fully 3D and advanced modeling
- Management Construction projects


required system

- Operating system Windows 7/8/10 64-bit
- x86 CPU with 2 GHz
- 2 GB RAM
- USB interface for the installation (if no installation via download link)
- 20 GB hard disk capacity, including approximately 4 GB required for the installation
- Graphics card with OpenGL acceleration and resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. Onboard solutions and shared-memory technologies are not recommended.

RFEM is not supported by Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista, Linux, Mac OS, or server operating systems.

Except for the operating system, there are no product recommendations, since RFEM basically runs on all systems that meet the aforementioned system requirements. If you use RFEM for intensive calculations, the principle "the more the better" applies.

Calculations of complex structural systems have to process huge amounts of data. Once the main memory is no longer sufficient, the hard drive is used for processing the data, which may significantly slow down your computer. Therefore, a main memory upgrade usually speeds up calculation more than a faster processor.

Since the RFEM computation kernel supports several processor cores, you can completely use the potential of the 64-bit operating system. If your computer has sufficient RAM memory, you can use the fast and direct matrix solver method even for large models.

For a calculation of complex structural systems, we recommend the following configuration:
- Quad-core processor
- Windows 7/8/10 64-bit
- 8 GB RAM

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