Shonannokaze Suirenka Rar File. What is the best software to use as a tool in designing structures made of reinforced concrete? Prefer PC compatibles but interested in recommendations running on any.

Structural Engineering Software for Reinforced & Prestressed Concrete Structures Many engineers use the structural analysis programs by Dlubal Software to perform the calculations and designs of 2D and 3D reinforced concrete structures such as buildings, slabs, plates, walls, columns, beams, continuous beams, frames, shells, and silos. Structural analysis software RFEM and RSTAB provide the optimal way to calculate and design structures consisting of reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete. Whether you design a pure beam structure (RSTAB) or a structure with plates, walls or shells (RFEM), you can choose from a wide range of programs by Dlubal Software.

Be careful with plate analysis in structural software. For instance, ROBOT does not give torsional properties to plates.

So it can twist alot more than it would do really. We had to go with ABACUS for that reason. Which is horrendously expensive. So we got an external office to do the modelling.

And nearly all structural software will not take account of warping in the plate. This can be both a help and a hindrance i.e your slab may be stiffer in terms of strength but not in terms of displacements. You can add in beams to the depth of the slab itself which would make for a more easily identifiable structural path. And you then get stability in the model by fixity to the column heads. For a simple design, you may well be better off with the pen and paper! StructurePoint is very good software. An alternative is RAM Concrete, produced by Bentley, if you want to use the ACI 318 Standards: Expect to pay through the nose for either software package, as they are very expensive.

If this is a one-shot design and analysis of a run-of-the-mill one-way or two-way slab, then why bother with purchasing a expensive off-the-shelf software package? You could easily perform the calculations by hand. Dig out that Reinforced Concrete design book and use it! © 2018 IEEE GlobalSpec. All rights reserved.

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