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Comprehensive Foundation Design


Features

Modeling

  • Intuitive user-friendly graphical user interface; the workflow is categorized and arranged to flow from top to bottom
  • Complete foundation project environment which includes isolated, combined, strip, pile cap and mat foundations; it connects all the modules through a global layer
  • Plant-specific foundations such as vertical vessel and heat exchanger foundations
  • Specialized foundations like drilled pier and dead man anchor guy foundations
  • Physical mat foundation modeling environment saves time and reduces errors
  • Physical loading—like point load on space, quadrilateral load, circular load, or line load allows user to simulate tank loading and wall loading
  • STAAD.foundation is seamlessly integrated with STAAD.Pro to import loadings, reactions, column positions; users can even import any set of analyzed plates to design; program tracks changes made in STAAD.Pro model and can merge the changes with STAAD.foundation file
  • Powerful OpenGL-based graphics helps visualize output like displacements, stress on displaced shape, combined beam stress, and entities like plates and beams in 3D for a realistic rendered view
  • Automatic transfer of load from top of the pedestal to the base of the footing
  • Automatic pile arrangement
  • Automatic mesh generation considering holes, control regions and column lines; option for  both triangular and quadrilateral plates
  • Physical beam

Analysis and Design

  • Supports both flexible and rigid method
  • Sophisticated FEM analysis for mat foundation powered by reliable STAAD analysis engine
  • Supports unlimited number of load cases and load combinations
  • Physical tie beam which automatically converts to analytical members for analysis and output like BM/SF and combined stresses are presented on physical entity
  • Innovative and unique slab design to take full advantage of FEM analysis; it produces user-defined reinforcing zones and blocks for optimal reinforcement distribution which saves huge material Reinforcement can be laid out at any user defined direction
  • Slab design along any cut line to simulate manual mat design technique
  • Proper handling of biaxial moment for all footing types using finite difference approach
  • Pedestal design

Output

  • Step-by-step detailed calculation sheet with code clauses and equations to verify output and to understand actual processes involved in design
  • General arrangements (GA) drawing with grid marks and to-scale drawing detects overlaps and helps user to choose appropriate foundation type
  • Detailed structural drawing of each footing with customizable arrow marks and labels
  • Footing schedule drawing for the entire foundation project
  • DXF export of all drawings
  • Base pressure and plate stress color contour

Design Codes

  • United States - ACI 318-2005
  • United Kingdom - BS 8110
  • India - IS 456-2000
  • AS 3600-2004
  • CA A23 3-04
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