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IES QuickFooting v2.0 [Size: 14 MB] ... What will QuickFooting do for you?: Concrete spread footing (single column pad), imports from VisualAnalysis. Design and check reinforced concrete footings under a single column without building a complex analysis model of the building.

Key benefits
    Will check several footings all at once (for worst case).
    Automatic sizing and detailing (optional).
    Advanced handling of biaxial loading
    Offset pedestal from footing center
    Checks footing, pedestal, and interface.
    Stability checks: Bearing pressure (net & gross), overturning, sliding, and uplift.
    Complete units flexibility.
    Accurate calculation of bearing pressure under biaxial loading.

Supported Codes
    ACI 318-11
    IBC 2012
    ASCE 7-10 (Load Combinations)
    Canadian CSA A23.3-04

Basic Capabilities
    Design or check single-column spread footings made of reinforced concrete
    Column may be eccentric on footing
    Calculation of bearing pressure under biaxial loading
    Optional rectangular pedestal, offset from center
    Checks several footings all at once (design for worst case) with multiple 'load sets'
    Multiple footings in a single project file

Stability Checks
    Checks bearing pressure, overturning, sliding, and uplift
    Maximum allowable bearing pressure can be gross or net
    Specify a passive resistance from the adjacent soil for sliding
    Specify the coefficient of friction between the footing and soil
    Specify an additional downward force to resist uplift

Strength Checks
    Footing
        Flexure
        One-way shear
        Punching shear
        Minimum steel
        Minimum strain
    Footing-Pedestal Interface
        Bearing on footing
        Bearing on pedestal
        Dowel development into footing
        Dowel development into pedestal
        Dowel tensile capacity
        Minimum steel across joint
    Pedestal
        Shear
        Axial
        Axial-bending interaction
        Biaxial bending

Loading
    Load sets from more than one column (design for worst-case)
    Axial force, moments in both directions, shears in both directions, and overburden
    Allows pre-factored loads, such as from a metal-building design report
    Load combinations from IBC, CBC, or custom
    Uplift loads
    Import and Export loads (text)
    Import reactions from a VisualAnalysis model

Reporting
    Excellent 'transparent' report shows all checks and code references
    Full-color reporting for a professional look and easy reading
    Detailed design sketch
    Echo of input data
    Extremely customizable, from a summary to full-calculation details

Limitations
    Only rectangular footings are supported
    Only a single column (no combined or wall footings)
    No support for plain (unreinforced) footings
    No top-steel checks
    Only rectangular pedestals (optional)
    Only rectangular rebar patterns
    No calculation of rotational stiffness or deflections.

Rocscience Slide v6.020 [Size: 67 MB] ... Slide is the most comprehensive slope stability analysis software available, complete with finite element groundwater seepage analysis, rapid drawdown, sensitivity and probabilistic analysis, and support design. All types of soil and rock slopes, embankments, earth dams, and retaining walls can be analyzed. State of the art CAD capabilities allow you to create and edit complex models very easily.

[Updated] IES VisualFoundation v6.00.0003
[Size: 20 MB] ... What will VisualFoundation do for you?: VisualFoundation will help you design complex mat footings. It automates much of the work involved in finite element modeling. VisualFoundation will take care of the modeling details while you specify the locations, sizes and structural configuration of your foundation. The software will analyze with your loads to determine moments, shears, displacements and bearing pressures using FEA. Stability checks and punching shear calculations are done automatically.
VisualFoundation will then help you check to make sure the footing meets IBC/ACI requirements, and will tell you about the steel requirements for the slab.

Major Benefits and Abilities
    Mat foundation analysis and design
    Complex mat boundaries, including circular and polygonal templates
    Generate copies of modeling elements using rectangular or circular patterns
    Multiple mat thicknesses or soil properties
    Holes in mats
    Combined footings
    Wall footings
    Concrete Walls, grade beams (for loading or stiffness)
    Columns (for loading, punching shear)
    Improved! Pile supports with elastic stiffness, optional tension-only or compression-only
    New! Thickened pile caps
    Unlimited model size
    Support for codes: IBC, ASCE 7, ACI 318,
    Automated FEA meshing and soil-spring supports
    Sophisticated thick-plate finite element formulation
    Import & Export DXF files
    Import & Export with VisualAnalysis
    Improved usability: easy graphics and toolbar commands
    New! Template projects for jump-starting new projects with similar features

Loads and Load Combinations
    Customizable load combinations (IBC, ASCE 7 built-in)
    New! Easy load combination customizations
    Streamlined seismic load combinations
    Uniform or linear area loads, rectangular or circular
    New! Circular and rectangular "ring" loads
    Rotated pressure loads
    Column loads, axial and moments
    Linear beam loads
    Wall loads, axial and moments
    Overburden loads

Stability Checks
    Checks for overall horizontal sliding forces.
    Plots and checks bearing pressures
    Overturning checks on the footing
    Seismic overturning reduction per ASCE 7 12.13.4

Strength Checks
    Slab shear plotted and checked
    Column and column-group punching shear checks
    Wall Punching Shear design checks
    Pile support and group punching shear checks
    Pile capacity limits are checked for tension or compression
    Grade beams are checked for shear and moment

Design Features
    ACI 318-11 checks
    Single or double layer of slab reinforcement
    Size each layer of slab steel
    New! "N" reinforcing bar sizes
    Grade beam reinforcement demand is provided
    New! Plate moment and shear diagrams
    New! Grade-beam moment and shear diagrams
    Override for minimum mat reinforcement
    Export to VisualAnalysis for more complicated tasks
    Import from VisualAnalysis includes project criteria settings and wall reactions

Reporting
    Post-analysis statics check reports are now available
    Average bearing pressure value is calculated for the entire footing.
    Full-color reporting for a professional look and easy reading.
    Preview the report before printing
    Customize what items are included in the report
    New! Easy export of report table to .xls, .pdf, or .html file.
    Print one-page graphic summaries

Current Limitations
    Does not provide full detailing of bars, diagrams, cut-offs, etc. (just requirements)
    Does not design piles

IES VisualAnalysis v12.00.0009 [Size: 13 MB] ... Why use VisualAnalysis?: You have choices in the marketplace for general-purpose FEA tools but VisualAnalysis shines in a number of areas: Excellent for everyday projects. + Great for unusual projects, and large, complicated models. + Three feature and price levels available: Compare Levels. + Building-code support is optional, use it for mechanical applications too. + Extremely versatile: model just about anything! + Reporting is extremely powerful and very flexible (save your own styles) + So easy to use, most customers are productive within hours of installing + Over 3000 companies use IES tools: one part-time support person at IES! (Think about it, our products don't need support!) What will VisualAnalysis do for You?: Model: just about anything + Load: Point, linear, area, thermal, dynamic + Analyze: reactions, displacements, forces and stresses + Design steel, concrete, wood, cold-formed, and aluminum + Report: Excellent graphics and text reporting features + Succeed! Easy to learn & use, Fantastic free resources & support. Three Levels Available: Just enough features to get your job done right. The free-trial is the 'Advanced level'. If you buy a lower-level you may upgrade to a higher level for the difference in price. Compare the 3 Levels. Compare with other IES Products. Analysis-only in 2D and 3D (no Design View window) * with Design: Adds code checks, member sizing ** Advanced with Design: Adds meshed-areas, nonlinear, time-history, and more..

Modeling: Frames, Trusses, Grids, Beams, Tanks... + Beam or Truss Members, Plate/Shell Elements + Elastic Spring Supports + Auto-meshed Areas (for easy wall or slab modeling) + Tension-only/Compression-only members or spring-supports + Cartesian, Polar, Cylindrical or Spherical Coordinates + No built-in size limit (20,000+ nodes are practical) + Typical Manufactured Shapes: Steel, Wood, Aluminum, Cold-formed + Parametric, Custom or Shapes imported from ShapeBuilder + Just about any Material, Libraries included, Customizable! + CAD-style selection box + Generate linear copies + Simple, Rigid, Semi-Rigid Connections + Catenary Cable Elements + Many Ways to Construct Models: Sketch models graphically + Copy & Paste existing objects + Import/Export .DXF files + Import from Spreadsheet/Clipboard + Legacy or Interchange .STD files (basic model & loading) + Customizable parametric generation. Loading: Automatic Load Cases & Load Combinations + Updated! Built-in Support for IBC 2012, IBC 2010, ASCE7-10, etc. Combinations + Customizable Load Combinations. + Semi-Automatic ASCE 7 Wind Loads (Method 2) + Ice + Wind pressure on Members (e.g. open towers) + AASHTO Load Sources (optional) + Copy Multiple Loads from Member to Member+ Import Loads from a Spreadsheet/Clipboard + Static Loads: Concentrated, Distributed, Pressure, Thermal, etc. + Area Loads (keeps model and loads separated so changes are easy!) + Area Edge Loads (in or out of plane) + Dynamic Response Spectra, IBC & Customizable + Dynamic Forcing Function, Time HIstory analysis + Moving Loads (limited, e.g. crane beams, single load-line) + Automatic live-load pattern load combinations + Import Load Combinations.  Analysis & Results: Static Analysis (1st order, P-Delta, Iterated) + AISC Direct Analysis (notional loads, stiffness reduction) + Dynamic Analysis (Sparse Lanzcos, Newmark) + Superposition Results and Envelopes + Member Internal Forces, Displacements, Diagrams + Plate Forces, Stress, Contour Diagrams + Edge Results + Automatic Mesh Refinement with Auto-Meshed Areas + Nodal Reactions, Displacements + Graphical Results Viewing + Sophisticated, Customizable Text Reports + Spreadsheet report, and save directly Excel XLS. Design Checks & Building Codes: Smart and flexible setup: bracing, deflection checks, size constraints + Updated! Steel AISC 360-10 or CSA S16-14 Design for frame and truss members + Updated! Concrete ACI 318-11 Design of Beams, Columns, Flat Slabs (ACI) + Updated! Wood NDS 2012 Design for frame and truss members (NDS) + Updated! Aluminum ADM 2010 Design for frame and truss members (ADM) + Updated! Cold-Formed NAS 2012 Design for frame and truss members (NAS) + RSG Software's CFS is used internally to perform these checks + Visual bracing locations + Steel seismic compactness checks + Stress & Deflection Checks (code agnostic, any material) + Integrated Steel Connection Design via VAConnect + Steel warping torsion checks + Override intermediate values or parameters (e.g. Cb, Fy, wood C factors...) + Moving Loads and Dynamic results are now checked.

Tsutomu Usami, Yoshito Itoh ... 450 pages - Publisher: Pergamon; (July, 1998) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 044454707X - ISBN-13: 978-0444547071

The near-field earthquake which struck the Hanshin-Awaji area of Japan before dawn on January 17, 1995, in addition to snatching away the lives of more than 6,000 people, inflicted horrendous damage on the region's infrastructure, including the transportation, communication and lifeline supply network and, of course, on buildings, too. A year earlier, the San Fernando Valley area of California had been hit by another near-field quake, the Northridge Earthquake, which dealt a similarly destructive blow to local infrastructures. Following these two disasters, structural engineers and researchers around the world have been working vigorously to develop methods of design for the kind of structure that is capable of withstanding not only the far-field tectonic earthquakes planned for hitherto, but also the full impact of near-field earthquake. Of the observed types of earthquake damage to steel structures, there are some whose causes are well understood, but many others continue to present us with unresolved problems. To overcome these, it is now urgently necessary for specialists to come together and exchange information. The contents of this volume are selected from the Nagoya Colloquium proceedings will become an important part of the world literature on structural stability and ductility, and will prove a driving force in the development of future stability and ductility related research and design.

Leonard Spiegel, George F. Limbrunner ... 501 pages - Publisher: Prentice Hall; 4th edition (May, 2002) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0130889830 - ISBN-13: 978-0130889836 ...

Written specifically for the engineering technology/technician level, this book offers a straight-forward, elementary, noncalculus, practical problem-solving approach to the design, analysis, and detailing of structural steel members. Using numerous example problems and a step-by-step solution format, it focuses on the classical and traditional ASD (Allowable Stress Design) method of structural steel design (the method still most used today) and introduces the LRFD (Load and Resistance Factor Design) method (fast-becoming the method of choice for the future). Introduction to Steel Structures. Tension Members. Axially Loaded Compression Members. Beams. Special Beams. Beam-Columns. Bolted Connections. Welded Connections. Open Web Steel Joists and Metal Deck. Continuous Construction and Plastic Design. Structural Steel Detailing: Beams. Structural Steel Detailing: Columns. LRFD: Structural Members. LRFD: Connections. For technicians, technologists, engineers, and architects preparing for state licensing examinations for professional registration.