Industries that design, produce and install pallet racking systems need a software program to predict strength, stability, and deformations of the pallet racks, according to European Codes.
The main characteristics of FEMPAL are:

• Compliance with legislation governing load bearing construction work that requires a building permit. 

• Analysis of simple and advanced or customised construction.

• Procedures to reliably and accurately predict characteristic structural behaviour, such as global stability and strength effects.

• Easy accessibility to the power of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for a wide range of users who are not specialists in FEA technology.

• Code checks according to various international and national codes.

• Full three-dimensional analysis including geometric nonlinearities (buckling modes due to imperfections) and nonlinear behaviour of beam-end connections.

FEMPAL offers a graphical user interface (GUI) with a MS Windows look and feel. Post analysis, FEMPAL can verify all components of the pallet rack according to one of the built-in codes: the European FEM code combined with Eurocode 3 for Steel Structures; the Dutch NEN code; or the German RAL code. These codes can also be customised by the user for compliance with other national or international codes.