Friday 1 February 2019

ProtaStructure Suit Enterprise 2018



ProtaStructure Suite is the most comprehensive solution for multi-material analysis, design and automated detail drawings of structures. ProtaStructure Suite combines the power of ProtaStructure together with the full detailing capability of ProtaDetails for the ultimate building design and detailing solution for structural engineering professionals. See below for information on which system is the best for your business. ProtaStructure Professional Suite is the all-in-one package for multi-material modelling with steel, concrete and composite members, 3-D finite element analysis, code-compliant design and detailing of building structures. ProtaStructure Enterprise Suite extends the professional edition with advanced time-history, staged construction and nonlinear analyses, seismic isolators, nonlinear link elements and seismic assessment / retrofitting.

ProtaStructure 2018 includes a new module - ProtaSteel - for steel connection design and detailing. Hundreds of new features and enhancements in ProtaStructure and Protocols for designing and documenting your building projects, and our dynamic new BIM systems.
Some real highlights we’d love to share with you include:

ProtaSteel

ProtaSteel is our new powerful steel detailing module that works seamlessly with ProtaStructure. Auto create & design your steel connections, insert ancillary steel members, fine tune member position & create final engineering drawings including connection details.

Steel Modelling, Analysis and Design to EC3, BS5950 & AISC360-10

Use our dynamic new steel modeling features for quickly defining your steel member, trusses, purlins, and braces. Analysis and design your buildings to your prefered leading code of practice.

Significantly Enhanced Analysis Speeds

Get work done faster – ProtaStructure Analysis is upwards of 5 times faster over previous releases.

Merged Shear Walls and New Polyline Column Design and Detailing

Increase your design efficiency by merging shear wall panels into a single core wall for integrated analysis, design, and detailing. Define and design any steel reinforcement layout for irregular shaped columns.

Multiple Openings in Shear Walls and Slab Drops of any Shape

Easily create openings in your shearwalls and insert isolated slab drops & openings of any shape, anywhere in your project floor, handle toilet drops and architectural set downs with ease.

Auto truncation of Beam Elevation Details

Automatically truncate and arrange your beams into your drawing sheets with ease saving hours of drafting time.

Column Grouping

Save the earth - Automatically group your columns and reduce repetitive detailing requirements. Together with beam grouping cut down on the number of drawings you produce, save costs, rationalize design and reduce your paper usage.

Revit Integration

Share models bi-directionally with other leading BIM platforms including Revit, greatly enhancing project coordination and workflow. Synchronise and track model changes in either Revit or ProtaStructure. Take advantage of enhanced filtering commands to share parts of the model you like, co-ordinate a floor at a time or the whole project model, your projects, your choice.

Pile Design

Take your soil investigation data and quickly calculate geotechnical capacities and design your concrete and prestressed piles for both axial and lateral loads. Fantastic! - even creates drawings and calculations.

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Wednesday 28 November 2018

ACI 318-14 Code in pdf

318-14: Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete and Commentary



ACI 318-14 is completely reorganized for greater ease of use

Quantity discounts are not available for this publication.
DESCRIPTION

The “Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete” (“Code”) provides minimum requirements for the materials, design, and detailing of structural concrete buildings and, where applicable, nonbuilding structures. This Code addresses structural systems, members, and connections, including cast-in-place, precast, plain, nonprestressed, prestressed, and composite construction. Among the subjects covered are: design and construction for strength, serviceability, and durability; load combinations, load factors, and strength reduction factors; structural analysis methods; deflection limits; mechanical and adhesive anchoring to concrete; development and splicing of reinforcement; construction document information; field inspection and testing; and methods to evaluate the strength of existing structures. “Building Code Requirements for Concrete Thin Shells” (ACI 318.2) is adopted by reference in this Code.The Code user will find that ACI 318-14 has been substantially reorganized and reformatted from previous editions. The principal objectives of this reorganization are to present all design and detailing requirements for structural systems or for individual members in chapters devoted to those individual subjects, and to arrange the chapters in a manner that generally follows the process and chronology of design and construction. Information and procedures that are common to the design of members are located in utility chapters.

The quality and testing of materials used in construction are covered by reference to the appropriate ASTM standard specifications. Welding of reinforcement is covered by reference to the appropriate American Welding Society (AWS) standard. Uses of the Code include adoption by reference in a general building code, and earlier editions have been widely used in this manner. The Code is written in a format that allows such reference without change to its language. Therefore, background details or suggestions for carrying out the requirements or intent of the Code provisions cannot be included within the Code itself. The Commentary is provided for this purpose. Some of the considerations of the committee in developing the Code are discussed within the Commentary, with emphasis given to the explanation of new or revised provisions. Much of the research data referenced in preparing the Code is cited for the user desiring to study individual questions in greater detail. Other documents that provide suggestions for carrying out the requirements of the Code are also cited.Technical changes from ACI 318-11 to ACI 318-14 are outlined in the May 2014 issue of Concrete International. Transition keys showing how the code was reorganized are provided on the ACI website on the 318 Resource Page under Topics in concrete.

DOCUMENT DETAILS

Author: ACI Committee 318
Publication Year: 2014
Pages: 520.00
ISBN: 9780870319303
Categories: Codes, Design
Formats: Printed Document, PDF, or Protected PDF/Web View
TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1
GENERAL
1.1—Scope of ACI 318
1.2—General
1.3—Purpose
1.4—Applicability
1.5—Interpretation
1.6—Building official
1.7—Licensed design professional
1.8—Construction documents and design records
1.9—Testing and inspection
1.10—Approval of special systems of design, construction, or alternative construction materials
CHAPTER 2
NOTATION AND TERMINOLOGY
2.1—Scope
2.2—Notation
2.3—Terminology
CHAPTER 3
REFERENCED STANDARDS
3.1—Scope
3.2—Referenced standards
CHAPTER 4
STRUCTURAL SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
4.1—Scope
4.2—Materials
4.3—Design loads
4.4—Structural system and load paths
4.5—Structural analysis
4.6—Strength
4.7—Serviceability
4.8—Durability
4.9—Sustainability
4.10—Structural integrity
4.11—Fire resistance
4.12—Requirements for specific types of construction
4.13—Construction and inspection
4.14—Strength evaluation of existing structures
CHAPTER 5
LOADS
5.1—Scope
5.2—General
5.3—Load factors and combinations
CHAPTER 6
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
6.1—Scope
6.2—General
6.3—Modeling assumptions
6.4—Arrangement of live load
6.5—Simplified method of analysis for nonprestressed
continuous beams and one-way slabs
6.6—First-order analysis
6.7—Elastic second-order analysis
6.8—Inelastic second-order analysis
6.9—Acceptability of finite element analysis
CHAPTER 7
ONE-WAY SLABS
7.1—Scope
7.2—General
7.3—Design limits
7.4—Required strength
7.5—Design strength
7.6—Reinforcement limits
7.7—Reinforcement detailing
CHAPTER 8
TWO-WAY SLABS
8.1—Scope
8.2—General
8.3—Design limits
8.4—Required strength
8.5—Design strength
8.6—Reinforcement limits
8.7—Reinforcement detailing
8.8—Nonprestressed two-way joist systems
8.9—Lift-slab construction
8.10—Direct design method
8.11—Equivalent frame method
CHAPTER 9
BEAMS
9.1—Scope
9.2—General
9.3—Design limits
9.4—Required strength
9.5—Design strength
9.6—Reinforcement limits
9.7—Reinforcement detailing
9.8—Nonprestressed one-way joist systems
9.9—Deep beams
CHAPTER10
COLUMNS
10.1—Scope
10.2—General
10.3—Design limits
10.4—Required strength
10.5—Design strength
10.6—Reinforcement limits
10.7—Reinforcement detailing
CHAPTER 11
WALLS
11.1—Scope
11.2—General
11.3—Design limits
11.4—Required strength
11.5—Design strength
11.6—Reinforcement limits
11.7—Reinforcement detailing
11.8—Alternative method for out-of-plane slender wall analysis
CHAPTER 12
DIAPHRAGMS
12.1—Scope
12.2—General
12.3—Design limits
12.4—Required strength
12.5—Design strength
12.6—Reinforcement limits
12.7—Reinforcement detailing
CHAPTER 13
FOUNDATIONS
13.1—Scope
13.2—General
13.3—Shallow foundations
13.4—Deep foundations
CHAPTER 14
PLAIN CONCRETE
14.1—Scope
14.2—General
14.3—Design limits
14.4—Required strength
14.5—Design strength
14.6—Reinforcement detailing
CHAPTER 15
BEAM-COLUMN AND SLAB-COLUMN JOINTS
15.1—Scope
15.2—General
15.3—Transfer of column axial force through the floor system
15.4—Detailing of joints
CHAPTER 16
CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MEMBERS
16.1—Scope
16.2—Connections of precast members
16.3—Connections to foundations
16.4—Horizontal shear transfer in composite concrete flexural members
16.5—Brackets and corbels
CHAPTER 17
ANCHORING TO CONCRETE
17.1—Scope
17.2—General
17.3—General requirements for strength of anchors
17.4—Design requirements for tensile loading
17.5—Design requirements for shear loading
17.6—Interaction of tensile and shear forces
17.7—Required edge distances, spacings, and thicknesses to preclude splitting failure
17.8—Installation and inspection of anchors
CHAPTER 18
EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANT STRUCTURES
18.1—Scope
18.2—General
18.3—Ordinary moment frames
18.4—Intermediate moment frames
18.5—Intermediate precast structural walls
18.6—Beams of special moment frames
18.7—Columns of special moment frames
18.8—Joints of special moment frames
18.9—Special moment frames constructed using precast concrete
18.10—Special structural walls
18.11—Special structural walls constructed using precast concrete
18.12—Diaphragms and trusses
18.13—Foundations
18.14—Members not designated as part of the seismicforce-resisting system
CHAPTER 19
CONCRETE: DESIGN AND DURABILITY REQUIREMENTS
19.1—Scope
19.2—Concrete design properties
19.3—Concrete durability requirements
19.4—Grout durability requirements
CHAPTER 20
STEEL REINFORCEMENT PROPERTIES, DURABILITY, AND EMBEDMENTS
20.1—Scope
20.2—Nonprestressed bars and wires
20.3—Prestressing strands, wires, and bars
20.4—Structural steel, pipe, and tubing for composite columns
20.5—Headed shear stud reinforcement
20.6—Provisions for durability of steel reinforcement
20.7—Embedments
CHAPTER 21
STRENGTH REDUCTION FACTORS
21.1—Scope
21.2—Strength reduction factors for structural concrete members and connections
CHAPTER 22
SECTIONAL STRENGTH
22.1—Scope
22.2—Design assumptions for moment and axial strength
22.3—Flexural strength
22.4—Axial strength or combined flexural and axial strength
22.5—One-way shear strength
22.6—Two-way shear strength
22.7—Torsional strength
22.8—Bearing
22.9—Shear friction
CHAPTER 23
STRUT-AND-TIE MODELS
23.1—Scope
23.2—General
23.3—Design strength
23.4—Strength of struts
23.5—Reinforcement crossing bottle-shaped struts
23.6—Strut reinforcement detailing
23.7—Strength of ties
23.8—Tie reinforcement detailing
23.9—Strength of nodal zones
CHAPTER 24
SERVICEABILITY REQUIREMENTS
24.1—Scope
24.2—Deflections due to service-level gravity loads
24.3—Distribution of flexural reinforcement in one-way slabs and beams
24.4—Shrinkage and temperature reinforcement
24.5—Permissible stresses in prestressed concrete flexural members
CHAPTER 25
REINFORCEMENT DETAILS
25.1—Scope
25.2—Minimum spacing of reinforcement
25.3—Standard hooks, seismic hooks, crossties, and minimum inside bend diameters
25.4—Development of reinforcement
25.5—Splices
25.6—Bundled reinforcement
25.7—Transverse reinforcement
25.8—Post-tensioning anchorages and couplers
25.9—Anchorage zones for post-tensioned tendons
CHAPTER 26
CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS AND
INSPECTION
26.1—Scope
26.2—Design criteria
26.3—Member information
26.4—Concrete materials and mixture requirements
26.5—Concrete production and construction
26.6—Reinforcement materials and construction requirements
26.7—Anchoring to concrete
26.8—Embedments
26.9—Additional requirements for precast concrete
26.10—Additional requirements for prestressed concrete
26.11—Formwork
26.12—Concrete evaluation and acceptance
26.13—Inspection
CHAPTER 27
STRENGTH EVALUATION OF EXISTING STRUCTURES
27.1—Scope
27.2—General
27.3—Analytical strength evaluation
27.4—Strength evaluation by load test
27.5—Reduced load rating
COMMENTARY REFERENCES
APPENDIX A
STEEL REINFORCEMENT INFORMATION
APPENDIX B
EQUIVALENCE BETWEEN SI-METRIC, MKSMETRIC, AND U.S. CUSTOMARY UNITS OF NONHOMOGENOUS EQUATIONS IN THE CODE

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Saturday 10 November 2018

Elementary Structure Analysis and Design of Building by Dominick R. Pilla

Elementary Structural Analysis and Design of Buildings By Dominick R. Pilla



Contents:
1 Minimum design loads for buildings
2 Wind and seismic forces applied to buildings
3 Lateral force distribution
4 Methods
5 Designing and detailing of structures
6 Steel
7 Concrete
8 Wood
9 Masonry
10 Foundations and retaining structures
11 Structural review of construction



Preface:
This book is an introduction to the process of building engineering as performed by professional structural engineers. To gain the required knowledge and to properly engineer buildings, it is common to be formally educated in engineering, and then to take part in an apprenticeship as a junior engineer where the professional practice is learned during work experience. The junior engineer is taught to navigate the facets of building design by applying those principles taught at school with professional practice standards. This book allows the reader to link the theory with practice and illustrates typical applications used in every day practice. The process presented in this book covers industry standard applications and interpretations of required building codes as well as the use of building code-adopted design references for the analysis and design of buildings. While the material presented in this book is at an elementary level, its example-based presentation is at a professional level and can be thought of as a simple road map for similar contextual situations.
Building design is often thought to consist of those systems that are gravity supporting, such as columns and beams, and lateral resisting, such as shear walls and frames. It is the lateral forces, speci‡cally the seismic requirements due to the anticipated seismic forces, which limit the structural system selection and dictate the required detailing for a building. For this reason, the subject matter discussed in this book is largely based on the lateral system analysis and design of buildings. The process of professionally engineering a building must address the following topics:
• Minimum design loads for buildings
• Wind and seismic forces applied to buildings
• Lateral force distribution
• Discussion of simpli‡ed analysis methods
• Design and detailing of structures
• Steel, concrete, wood, and masonry lateral systems
• Foundations and retaining structures
A brief discussion of building code requirements pertaining to structural inspections is also covered in this book to give the reader an appreciation of the required quality control measures to ensure a properly built structural system. This book is not intended to be all inclusive in regard to the principles and practice of engineering design of buildings. It is meant to provide a linear progression of concepts and how they ‡t within the design process. The reader is assumed to have a basic working knowledge of design and is encouraged to use the codes and design standards referenced in this book in conjunction with completing the problems presented. The objective is to gain the confidence to apply these principles to the other structural systems not discussed.

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Sunday 7 October 2018

CSI SAFE 2016 v16.0.2 64x Download



Description
The CSI SAFE software is a perfect tool for the design of concrete slabs and foundation, and the ability to perform different parts of the engineering design process from the original design to the full details of the model. It also has full tools for analyzing the layout and fixing bugs and making optimizations on it.

The

Features and Features of CSI SAFE Software:

- Simple and easy interface with all the features of design and modeling, analysis and reporting as a complex

- Py & Dall design consistent with the latest global standards

- Advanced layout analysis with complete tools

- Ability to export the model as Excel and Access spreadsheet

- Ability to determine the soil type by supporting a variety of soils

- The possibility of modeling walls and ramps within the model

- Modeling of all kinds of columns such as T shaped, L shaped, circular and ...

- Two and three dimensional display of the model in color and in full detail

- Compatible with BIM (stands for Building Information Modeling - Building Information Modeling)

- Integration with other CSI products as well as AutoCAD software

And…

The

The set of changes made to CSI SAFE is visible from here.

The

CSI SAFE Tips:

- This version is provided with full crack and installed and tested by the download.

- The new License Generator is placed individually.

- Licensing This software is presented at two levels: the license produced by Keygen or the License Generator is the most complete level, Post Tensioning; Compare the features of the versions here.

- Some antiviruses may incorrectly detect the Keygen file as a virus, if the file is completely clean and so-called False Positive mode.

Required system
Operating System

Microsoft® Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or later, Microsoft® Windows Vista, Microsoft® Windows 7 or Microsoft® Windows 8, 32- and 64-bit versions

With a 64 bit operating system, the SAPFire® Analytical Engine can utilize more than 4 GB of RAM, making it possible to more efficiently solve larger problems

Processor

Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64

Recommended: Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2, or better

A CPU that has SSE2 support is required

The SAPFire® Analytical Engine includes a multi-threaded solver that can take advantage of multi-core CPUs

Memory

Minimum: 2 GB for XP O/S, 4 GB for Vista/Windows 7 O/S

Recommended: 4 GB for 32-bit O/S, 8 GB or more for 64-bit O/S

The problem size that can be solved & the solution speed increases considerably with more RAM

Vista/Windows 7 requires more RAM than XP for the operating system itself

Disk Space

6GB to install the software

(Recommended: 500GB or larger Hard Disk Drive (7200 rpm SATA

Additional space required for running and storing model files and analysis results, dependent upon the size of the models

Video Card

Minimum: Supporting 1024 by 768 resolution and 16 bits colors for standard (GDI+) graphics mode

Recommended: Discrete video card with NVIDIA GPU or equivalent and dedicated graphics RAM (512 Mb or larger) for DirectX graphics mode. The card must be DirectX 9.0c compatible – DirectX SDK Aug 2009 – Build 9.27.1734.0

DirectX graphics mode fully utilizes the hardware acceleration provided by a GPU and dedicated graphics RAM

For better graphics quality in terms of anti-aliasing and line thickness, the device raster drawing capabilities should support legacy depth bias.

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CSI SAP2000 Ultimate 20.1.0 x64 Download


CSI SAP2000 Ultimate 20.1.0 Build 1415 x86 / x64


Description

The SAP2000 software is another product of Computers and Structures, Inc., which is used to analyze the static and dynamic structures. This software is more than 35 years old with the help of an analytical engine as well as design tools in an integrated environment, one of the most powerful models of modeling, analyzing and designing various types of construction and non-structural structures.
The

Features and Features of the CSI SAP2000 Software :

- Accurate static and dynamic analysis
- The possibility of linear and nonlinear analysis
- Dynamic seismic analysis and static overlapping analysis
- Apply all kinds of loading
- Ability to perform buckling analysis, P-Delta, Pushover, spectral power density, continuous sinusoidal mode and ...
- Modeling and designing complex structures such as bridges
- Compatible with BIM (stands for Building Information Modeling - Building Information Modeling)
- Integration and complete coordination with other CSI products

required system

Operating System
Microsoft® Windows Vista, Microsoft® Windows 7, Microsoft® Windows 8, or Microsoft® Windows 10, 32- and 64-bit Versions 
With a 64-bit operating system, the SAPFire® Analytical Engine can use more than 4 GB of RAM , making it possible to more effectively solve larger problems

Tuesday 11 September 2018

CSI ETABS Ultimate 17.0.1 64x Download





CSI ETABS Ultimate 17.0.1 Build 1888 x64 + CSI Detailing 2.0

Description

CSI (abbreviated to Computers and Structures, Inc.) is one of the oldest (founded in 1975) software companies that produce products related to the design and analysis of building structures. The ETABS software is a revolutionary and innovative 40-year-old solution, a complete and integrated suite for building analysis and design. Comprehensive features of designing and building schematic diagrams, analyzing complex structures and graphically displaying analytical reports of the capabilities of this software.
Th

Features and Features of CSI ETABS Software :

- Design of various building components such as floors, floors, shear walls, steel frames and concrete, composite beams and ...
- Performing accurate linear and nonlinear analysis in a static and dynamic manner
- Graphical simulation of the designed model with high detail
- The possibility of automatic calculation of mass and center of mass
- Possibility of production and distribution of lateral and gravity loads between columns and beams
- Compatible with BIM (stands for Building Information Modeling - Building Information Modeling)
- Integration with other CSI products as well as AutoCAD software.

required system

Operating System
Microsoft® Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or later, Microsoft® Windows Vista, Microsoft® Windows 7 or Microsoft® Windows 8, 32- and 64-bit versions
With a 64-bit operating system, the SAPFire® Analytical Engine can use more than 4 GB of RAM, making it possible to more effectively solve larger problems.
Processor
Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64
Recommended: Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2, or better
A CPU that has SSE2 support is required
The SAPFire® Analytical Engine includes a multi-threaded solver that can take advantage of multi-core CPUs
Memory
Minimum: 2 GB for XP O / S, 4 GB for Vista / Windows 7 O / S
Recommended: 4 GB for 32-bit O / S, 8 GB or more for 64-bit O / S
The problem size can be solved and the solution speed increases significantly with more RAM
Vista / Windows 7 requires more RAM than XP for the operating system itself
Disk space
6GB to install the software
(Recommended: 500GB or larger Hard Disk Drive (7200 rpm SATA
Additional space is required for running and storing model files and analyzes, depending on the size of the models
Video Card
Minimum: Supporting 1024 by 768 resolution and 16 bits colors for standard (GDI +) graphics mode
Recommended: Discrete video card with NVIDIA GPU or equivalent and dedicated graphics RAM (512 Mb or greater) for DirectX graphics mode. The card must be DirectX 11 Compatible
DirectX graphics mode fully utilizes the hardware acceleration provided by a GPU and dedicated graphics RAM
For better graphics quality in terms of anti-aliasing and line thickness, device raster drawing capabilities should support legacy depth bias

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Wednesday 12 October 2016

WATER CEMENT RATIO IN CASE BY CALCULATED CEMENT BAGS

In case you know the Quantity of bags of Cement then you may take the following method to calculate water quantity in concrete.
The 50 kg (1.25 cft or 0.034 cu.m) bag cement is equivalent to 35 Ltr.
Now water should be added 40% to 45% by volume i.e.
(40x35/100 or 45x35/100)=14 to16 Ltrs of water per cement bag
by knowing the no. of cement bags you can calculate the total volume of water required using this method.