This article presents the development of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary and multiuser OpenBIM workflow aimed at meeting the needs of the steel construction industry. The objective is to integrate new technologies into the project development process via a series of tools that facilitate the specialised work of technicians and allow information to be transmitted in standard digital format, reducing time and costs and avoiding a large number of problems that arise due to a lack of coordination between the project phase and the construction phase.
Summary
The current standards are based on the well‐known component method for the design of steel structure connections. This method proposes to analyse the joints as a set of more basic components. Its main drawback is the difficulty in extrapolating the method to perform the analysis of complex joints. As an alternative, it is possible to test the joints in the laboratory or to carry out finite element modelling. The purpose of this study is to compare the strength obtained on the basis of the Eurocode 3 criteria with the strength obtained from finite element models of two‐dimensional elements in order to validate a model which, a priori, is less accurate than the three‐dimensional element model.
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