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Quickly design and detail reinforced-concrete column, beam and wall sections to multiple design codes with S-CONCRETE, the concrete design software of choice by structural engineers worldwide.
Optimize a single section design or evaluate thousands of concrete sections at once.
See automatic and immediate results as design parameter change.
Comprehensive code checks go well beyond the strength of the concrete section: Design for axial, shear, moment loads, and torsion.No black-box solution: results include everything you need to quickly detail and optimize concrete walls, columns and beam.
Design and detail walls having Rectangular-shaped, I-shaped, C-shaped, L-shaped and T-shaped sections.
In addition to distributed panel reinforcement, the boundary (zone) concentrated reinforcement can be specified for each of the various sections.
Design and detail rectangular or circular columns, with rectangular or circular ties or spiral reinforcement, rectangular or circular holes, and steel I-shaped composite columns.
Design Rectangular beams, T-beams, L-beams, or Slab bands, with closed or open multi-leg stirrups.
Quickly and easily specify concrete section dimensions, concrete and steel reinforcing strengths, concrete cover, reinforcement bar type, units and design codes and reinforcing bar type within a single dialog box.
Estimate your section dimensions, reinforcement amounts, and configuration then let the S-CONCRETE Automated Design tool check and modify your section in an iterative, automatic process that arrives at an optimum configuration for the section, while satisfies design requirements.
Use the S-CONCRETE Visual Editor to fine-tune your section design. Main design parameters along with principal code check results are efficiently displayed on a single graphical window for easy reference. Change and control your design parameters directly in a single window, getting immediate feedback as changes are made.
Automatically generate required tie arrangements for column, wall and beam sections.
All of the column designs shown below are automatically generated by simply increasing the vertical bars in the section.
S-CONCRETE displays immediate design results in the Visual Editor window, identifying hot-spots (problem areas) so the engineer can efficiently change model parameters within the same window.
Users can control the interactive iterations that check and update the design within the Visual Editor window.
S-CONCRETE comprehensive code checking goes well beyond the strength of the concrete section.
In the example shown, the section capacity for applied Axial, Flexure, and Shear forces are well within limits, however, the detailed checks for tie size and tie spacing, and clear spacing between bars (at the bar splice location), do not meet the code requirements. S-CONCRETE gives a color-coded Warning to the user .
Warning messages are readily identified with citations of the specific Code Clauses as shown at the right.
S-CONCRETE generates and displays axial force versus biaxial moment interaction envelopes, N-M (P-M) diagrams. These envelopes are used to provide information for the relevant checks performed by the program. The diagrams are automatically generated for all applied moment angles, Theta, that are part of the specified load cases, as well as the four right angles of the section, i.e. 0, 90, 180, 270 degrees.
Once the design is complete, the ability to export the cross section with reinforcing steel to an AutoCAD DXF file showing the actual reinforcement layout, including primary and secondary bars, ties and stirrups, allows for quick and easy incorporation into engineering drawings.
S-CONCRETE’s comprehensive and customizable report provides details on all code checks performed.
Reports include:
S-CONCRETE Standard includes all concrete design and detailing features for single sections.
S-CONCRETE Professional includes all capabilities in S-CONCRETE Standard plus
Batch processing mode to analyze and design multiple sections at once and include results a single design output file
Design aids for factored, nominal and probable moment capabilities and overstrength ratios
S-CONCRETE Enterprise includes all capabilities in S-CONCRETE Professional plus
S-CONCRETE Multi-Story Designer for ETABS™
Use S-PAD to quickly code check a structural steel column, beam or brace without modeling the entire structure. Simply input design loads and effective lengths of the steel member then run a quick check in seconds, or even better, run an auto-design to identify the optimum section.
S-PAD includes advanced code checking capabilities as well as auto-design to the same steel design codes supported by S-STEEL, for both strength and serviceability. This standalone application employs a simple spreadsheet-like interface that delivers powerful steel-design and code check capabilities.
S-PAD uses a simple, intuitive spreadsheet layout that allows up to 20 design cases to be evaluated simultaneously.
Member definition input can be copied in from CSV files.
Input files can be saved and can contain multiple worksheets each with up to 20 design cases.
Easily view detailed design calculations for all section shapes.
Support for American, Canadian, British, European and other international section sizes.
S-PAD features exactly the same comprehensive design output as S-STEEL as well as the same set of design constraints giving the engineer full control of all design parameters.
Quickly and easily input strength and stability design forces, effective lengths in compression and unsupported lengths in bending steel elements (beam, column or brace) and run a quick code check.
Auto-design steel members to help identify an optimum section according to:
Steel member auto-design generates a sorted list of adequate sections to identify optimum sections easily. Detailed design calculations can be viewed for all sections.
Code relaxation option is available for more conservative designs.
Increase productivity and design accuracy with S-CALC, a comprehensive section property calculator.
Ideal for sections having complex geometry and multiple materials, S-CALC calculates over 16 distinct section properties.
Generate cross-section properties using different calculation methods: database values, closed-form solutions, FEA methods and more.
Easily define models in S-CALC’s graphical editor or import geometry, material and section property data from AutoCAD® DXF and Revit® files.
Produce detailed engineering reports that include all section properties, geometry, material and graphics.
Generate over 16 section properties calculated about the centroid or any reference axis. Control the calculation method with options to use database values, closed-form solutions, proprietary polygon algorithms, or Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods.
Quickly compare the results from the various methods in spreadsheet form to make engineering judgments.
Create multi-material sections and calculate properties based on the chosen reference material. Calculate Shear Area and Torsional Constant using Superposition.
Use default materials including steel, concrete, timber, aluminum, and iron, or change the materials to any custom values.
Custom materials can be exported into libraries and then imported into any S-CALC file.
Easily transfer geometry, material and section property data between S-CALC and S-FRAME Analysis or S-TIMBER. Additionally import and export data with AutoCAD® DXF, or Revit®
files.
S-CALC automatically converts disparate unit systems and performs point tolerance checks during import to ensure model connectivity.
Through automation and customization, data can be imported from, or exported to, any other structural analysis program. Any property can be exported or set from the imported data. Data can be used to create new sections and materials.
Automate any process or workflow and distribute it across your organization.
Save time automating repetitive or iterative processes like section sizing, scanning databases for appropriate sections, reporting, file read/write operations or FEA settings by creating automation tasks with the built-in S-CALC API and Integrated Development Environment. Optionally directly integrate our API into your .NET project.
Easily generate detailed engineering reports suitable for presentations and organized into easy to read tables.
Reports contain
Optionally export report data to an Excel file format for easy data access and manipulation.
For a full list of all the S-CALC section property calculator’s capabilities, including data transfer compatibility with 3rd party software, visit the link below.
S-CALC licenses are sold as standalone or multi-seat networked installations, with a subscription or paid-up option.
We offer multi-seat and discount licensing bundles for all our software products. Get help selecting the best option for your organization.
New Section Property: Calculation of Monosymmetry Constant, Beta X
New Modeling Features
Support for Revit™ 2020, 2019 and 2018 data transfer
Improved Python Automation Scripting Features
