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Arcade is a computer program for the simulation and animation of physical structures. It is based on computation methods from computer games. Arcade's development has been supported by the National Science Foundation, and it is freely available for download. Arcade uses a physics engine to model structural behavior. A physics engine models a collection of masses in motion, and can include several potential sources of force, including gravity, viscous drag, applied loads, and structural elements connecting the masses. This approach has been widely used in computer graphics and games. In structural engineering, the approach is called explicit analysis. This method requires smaller time steps than more conventional implicit analysis, but makes it possible to analyze structures which are unstable.

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