Comprehensive Foundation Design
Are you tired of designing one footing at a time? STAAD.foundation presents a total foundation project design environment.
Integrates all common footing designs by having two layers of data—local and global. Local data is used by individual footing type, while global data, like column positions and support reactions, is shared among all footings.
Includes a myriad of foundation configurations such as spread (isolated) footings, strip (combined) footing, pile cap, and mat foundations. In addition, includes vertical vessel and heat exchanger foundation and specialized footing types such as drilled pier and dead man anchor guy foundations.
STAAD.foundation supports multiple design codes: ACI-2005, BS 8110, and IS-456-2000.
Mat foundation design includes both slab-on-grade and slab-on-piles. It helps you visualize and optimize footing design with different integrated footing design modules.
Automatically detect slab areas out of contact with the soil and redistribute forces to other parts of the slab. The entities and the graphical representation of the mat foundation output such as displacements, forces, and stresses are shown using OpenGL for a realistic rendered view.
To address specific needs of the plant industry, the program includes modules like vertical vessel foundations (octagonal shape) and heat exchanger foundations. Both types of foundations can be supported on soil or on piles.
“Foundation Toolkit” mode is provided to address the needs of special footing types like drilled pier and dead man anchor guy foundation. Both modules can take multiple layers of both cohesive and cohesionless soil.