Steel Section Design

Steel design to SABS 0162 limit states, BS 5950 or EC 3 of standard I-sections, hollow sections, angles, channels and tees. Custom sections and their properties can also be entered.

The Moment Connection module is an interactive stand-alone program for the design of eaves type beam-to-column, apex type beam-to-beam, stiffened and unstiffened base plates and beam-to-beam splice connections.

Simple Connections is an interactive stand-alone program for the design of beam-to-beam flexible end-plate or cleated connections and beam-to-column flexible end-plate or cleated connections.

MasterPort is an elastic-plastic analysis and design program. It incorporates all MasterFrame features as well as a large number of time saving advanced tools to increase efficiency of portal frame analysis and design.

This is an interactive program for the design of composite beams with or without web openings, additional point and distributed loads and any number of transverse beams.

"General Frames" and "Portal Frames" are programs for the automatic generation of general arrangement of drawings, including plans, elevations, sections, skewed sections and 3-D views. All drawings are complete with grid lines, centre lines and dimensions. (The drawing is generated in the form of a DXF file compatible with most drafting systems.)