SAFE Loading
Latest release: SAFE 12.3.2

Load Cases and Combinations

  • Unlimited number of load cases and combinations
  • Automated design combinations based on selected design code
  • Strength and service combinations
  • User-defined load combinations
  • Linear add, envelope, absolute add, SRSS, and range combinations
  • Load combinations can be comprised of other load combinations

Area, Line and Point Loads

  • Uniform or non-uniform gravity surface loads
  • Point loads on lines
  • Uniform or trapezoidal loads on lines
  • Point load including load size for punching shear
  • Point (support) displacement loads

Auto Pattern Live Loads

  • Automatically generated patterns based on grid created by design strips
  • Results from each “single panel” are combined with the Range Add load Combination
  • User-defined pattern live load patterns can be input

Tendon Loads and Losses

  • Jack from start, end, or both ends of tendon
  • Specified jacking stress is converted to loads
  • Specify loads at transfer and final in one operation
  • Losses based on force percentage
  • Losses based on user-defined stress values Losses based on detailed calculations
  • Hyperstatic analysis

Loading Diagrams

  • Display loads on 2-D or 3-D views
  • Show analysis model loads
  • Mouse over diagram for instantaneous values
  • Display loading values
  • Color contoured area loading diagrams