Analysis Methods:
- Static linear.
- Static P-Delta.
- Frequency/modal analysis.
- Sparse and Skyline solvers, with parallel processing on multiple processors/cores and user-defined RAM utilization limits.
Integrated Concrete Design (inside VersaFrame)
- VersaFrame includes comprehensive concrete design that designs beams, columns (biaxial) and plates-if you can model it, VersaFrame can design it. Key features include:
- ACI 2002/2005/2008/2011 code.
- Biaxial column design (round and rectangular).
- Interaction diagrams (columns).
- Shear design of columns (ties and spirals).
- Automatic moment magnification.
- Flexural and shear design of beams.
- Shear and moment diagrams, including capacity curves.
- Cracking factor input to automatically reduce section properties for analysis (beams and columns).
- Automatic determination of member offsets from supporting members (beams).
- Design of plate/shell structures using Wood-Armer moments.
- Reinforcement contour plots for plate/shells and member capacity utilization color coded plots.
- Spread Sheet format allows you to quickly sort and compare design and code check results for members.
Integrated Steel Design (inside VersaFrame)
This is the most detailed steel design software available. That is not an exaggeration it’s a fact. No other program provides the level of detail available from Digital Canal. Steel design checks and designs are in accordance with AISC 14th Edition, AISC 13th Edition, ASD 9, and LRFD2 standards. In addition to standard detailed and summary reports, reports can include a step-by-step listing of the computations used to design the member. The program displays each equation and the resulting calculated value for each step of the design process. These incredibly detailed reports are created in Microsoft Word format (RTF).
Steel Design Technical Specifications:
- Supported sections include I-shapes, channels, angles, double angles, tubes, pipes and tees.
- Element’s can be checked and designed for deflection criteria. Separate load combinations can be specified for live and total load deflections. Additional design constraints such as depth limits can also be specified.
- Elements can be colored according their code check status; a five-color spectrum visually indicates their stress level.
- Spread Sheet format allows you to quickly sort and compare design and code check results for members.
- Versatile environment. The program utilizes spreadsheets for entering input and viewing output. These spreadsheets are compatible with Microsoft Excel and entries can be copied and pasted between the two applications. Reports are generated using RTF format, which is native to Microsoft Word. In fact, the reports are automatically displayed in Microsoft Word or Word Viewer. Note that reports can be viewed using any word processor that reads RTF files, which includes almost all word processing programs.
- Element cross sections can be automatically updated (in the model) by the steel design routine allowing for quick and efficient design-analysis cycles.
- Conditional allowable stress increases for wind loading. User can define relationship between load combinations such that the 4/3 increase factor for a combination containing wind loads is only used if the combination without wind does not exceed allowable stresses as given by 11th Edition ASD.
- Procedure Reports are reports that step through the complete code checking process, listing every computation made including the equation used, computed value and reference in the code book. This unique feature is only available through Digital Canal. It is an invaluable tool for engineers for verifying steel code check calculations.
- Output includes: allowable stresses/ultimate strengths, critical stresses/section forces, deflections and deflection ratios, ratios for each stress/force component, locations of critical sections, optimal shape recommendations and detailed computation procedures.