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MODELING & DESIGNING STEEL BUILDING SYSTEMS
STEEL FRAME AND FLOOR MODELING FEATURES
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Integrated Object Based Steel Building Models
• Special Modeling of Steel Frames with Concrete or Composite
Floor
• Rigid, Semi-Rigid, Partial, Multiple and Flexible Floor
Diaphragms
• Cracked Properties and Lateral Drift Control
• Automatic Generation of Code Lateral Wind and
Seismic Loads
• Automatic Transfer of Vertical Loads from Floor Decks
to Framing
• Steel Frames Interacting with Complex 2D and 3D Shear
Walls
• Steel Frames Interacting with Elevator Cores/Curved
Shear Walls
• Steel Frames Interacting with Straight/Spiral Parking
Garage Ramps
STEEL FRAME DESIGN FEATURES
• Fully Integrated
Steel Frame Design
• Automatic Member Sizing – No Preliminary Design Required
• Virtual Work Based Optimization for Lateral Deflections
• Grouping of Members for Member Sizing
• AISC-ASD & LRFD, UBC, British, Canadian, Italian,
Indian and Euro
Codes
• Design for Static and Dynamic Loads
• Code Dependent or User Defined Loading Combinations
• Automatic Calculations of Live Load Reduction Factors
• Automatic Calculation of K-Factors & P-Delta Effects
• Integrated Section Designer for Composite &
Built-Up Sections
• Interactive Options for Design and Review
• Interfaced with SAFE for Detailed Floor Slab and Base
Mat Design
• Design for Effects of Torsion
STEEL JOIST (SJI) DESIGN FEATURES
• Standard
and Envelope Design Types (K & KCS Series Joists)
• Automatic Member Selection from Built-In or User-Defined
Database
• Joist Capacities for Different Span Lengths
• User-Defined Joist Parameter (Depth, Weight &
Moment of Inertia)
STEEL SEISMIC FRAME DESIGN FEATURES
• Response Spectrum
and Time History Based Structural Dynamics
• Seismic Requirements for Special Moment-Resisting Frames
• Seismic Requirements for Concentric/Eccentrically
Braced Frames
• Check of Panel-Zones for Doubler and Continuity Plates
• Design of Intermediate/Special Moment-Resisting Frames
• Interactive Evaluation of Floor Diaphragm Shears Using
Section Cuts
• Diaphragm Flexibility Effects to Obtain Chord &
Collector Forces
• Effects of Accidental Torsion with Centers of Rigidity
STEEL FRAME DESIGN OUTPUT FEATURES
• Controlling
Steel Member Sizes
• Color Coded Controlling Steel Stress Ratios
• Doubler Plate And Continuity Plate Design
• Connection Design Forces
• Design Data in Database Format
STEEL DETAILING FEATURES
• IFC
• CIS2
• Steel Detailing Neutral File
• ProSteel 3D
• Revit Structure
• SAFE
POWER FEATURES FOR STEEL STRUCTURES
• Effects of Construction Sequence Loading (N)
• Automated Effects of Panel-Zone Deformations on Lateral
Drift
• Meshing Techniques for Interacting Shear Walls and Floors
• Models Using Line Constraints
• Eccentricities Due to Changes in Member Dimensions
• Analytical Effects of Member Centerline Offsets In 3D
• Effects of Beam-Column Partial Fixity
• Three-Dimensional Pushover Analysis (N)
• Buildings with Base Isolation and Inter-Story Dampers
(N)
• Element-Based P-Delta Effects for Local Buckling Instabilities
(N)
• Data Exchange with Detailing Packages
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