Steel Design

 Design Codes include AISC (ASD and LRFD), AASHTO and optional codes
such as ASCE 52 and several international codes like BS5400, BS5950, French,
German, Canadian, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Mexican (NTC), EC3 and
Scandinavian
 Design of HSS Sections
 Design of steel beams with cover plates
 Start your model without specifying any sizes!
 Design of tapered sections like I-beams and hexagonal, dodecagonal and octagonal
tubes
 Design cold-formed and aluminum sections with full database library included
 AISC code check for members with cover plates
 Interactive steel designer to model enhanced physical members and report step-by-
step calculations for each design clauses and formula
 Moment and shear connection designer integrated with the steel designer to perform
several column flange-beam moment and shear connections
 New AASHTO 2000 code
 1996 AISI Cold-Formed Steel Design and section library
 New welding design code
 Built-in Steel Tables of several countries including AISC, British, Canadian,
Australian, French, German, European, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, etc. Shapes
include I-Beams with or without cover plates, Channels, Angles, Double
Angles/Channels, Tees, Pipes and Tubes
 User-specified Design Parameters to customize design including profile, deflection,
story drift, depth, slenderness ratios, etc.
 Code Check, Member Selection consisting of Analysis/Design cycles
 Design Codes include AISC (ASD and LRFD), AASHTO and optional codes such as
ASCE 52 and several international codes like BS5400, BS5950, French, German,
Canadian, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Mexican (NTC) and Scandinavian
 Composite beam design (including stud spacing) per AISC ASD and LRFD
 Torsion design per Pub. T-117
 Transmission tower design code – ASCE 52 – (optional)
 Design of face-to-face double channels
 Design of open web joists and joist girders with complete SJI tables
 Design of non-composite castellated beams
 Design of angles about the principal or geometric axis

Concrete Design

 Two-way slab design to design irregular-shaped slabs. Full reinforcement contour

and reinforcement layout plans are created
 Rectangular concrete shear wall design (with deep beam design) and automatically
mesh an existing wall and provide horizontal, vertical and edge reinforcements based
 on axial, moments and pressure loadings. Provide openings (doors and windows) as
well
 Automatic calculation of cracked moment of inertia for concrete design
 Design of Concrete Beam/Column/Slab per ACI 318. Optional codes include BS8007,
BS8110, Canadian, French, German, Spanish, Mexican (NTC), Scandinavian,
Japanese, Chinese, Australian, and Indian Codes
 Numerical and Graphical Design Outputs with reinforcement details
 Interactive concrete design and detailing with bar scheduling and interactive rebar
layout
 Design “physical members” by combining separate beam entities as one
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