ECE SOFTWARE
‘In-house’ developed ECE software and automated templates, for use in civil and structural engineering, are extremely popular today among practicing civil & structural engineers, engineering students, research scholars, software programmers & even software developer firms. Some of the reasons for their immense popularity are as under:
- Highest automation level possible for a engineering design template.
- Developed, updated, and maintained by experienced structural engineers from IITs.
- Minimum dimensions and limiting ratios required as user input. Member size calculated by software.
- Iterations for member size, rebar diameter, rebar spacing done internally to arrive at the optimum values without user intervention.
- Designed to produce the most economical result out of the possible design options.
- Capable of handling multiple load combinations at multiple support joints in a single design run.
- Offer enormous design flexibility in terms of structure type, FOS for various limit states and the design checks.
- Allows for stress increase in case of wind, seismic & blast load combinations as applicable.
- Uses design principles as followed by O&G industry viz. PIPs, DEPs and good engineering practices.
- Greatly simplified for use by junior engineers and diploma holders.
- No prior training required to use.
Salient Features:
- Support Reactions imported ‘as-it-is’ from Analysis file.
- Global-to-Local axes conversion at a ‘Click’.
- 500 LCs at 50 Support Joints.
- ‘Fixed’ & ‘Pinned’ Bases.
- Twelve B/P configurations to choose from.
- ‘H’ &’SHS’ Column Profiles.
- ‘Rolled’ & ‘Built-Up’ Profiles for Column & Shear Key.
- ‘Dimension Check’ ensures correct Pitch, Gauge, Edge & End distances.
- No manual intervention unlike other Templates.
- Only minimum sizes & limiting dimensions required as input.
- User-input interface simplified like never before.
- ‘Default’ input facility at a ‘Click’ to guide ‘First-time’ users.
- ‘Step-by-step’ calculations with B/P sketch in 5 minutes.
Salient Features:
- Handles hundreds of LCs at multiple support joints in a single run.
- Considers shear in both directions and bending about both axes for each LC.
- SBC checked with user-specified LOC value (Teng’s chart used).
- Includes checks for 2-way shear, 1-way shear, sagging flexure, hogging flexure, uplift check, sliding check and overturning check.
- Loads can be applied at footing or pedestal level.
- Handles load specific values for SBC increase factor, uplift FOS, sliding FOS, overturning FOS& restoring moment for overturning. This makes ideal for ‘blast-resistant’ building foundation.
- Soil overburden calculated accurately based on footing location. This makes the foundation design economical for structures with high plinths such as warehouses.
- User can obtain calculations for any user-specified footing size (to be selected from list of successful sizes).
- Less than 5 minutes from import of support reactions until complete design with 6 sheets of detailed calculations and sketch with rebar details.
- “Most economical design” using unit rates of concrete, rebar,formwork and labour.
Salient Features:
- Handles hundreds of LCs at multiple support joints in a single run.
- Global-to-Local axes conversion at a ‘Click’.
- Accounts for plinth beam loads framing into the pedestal from one or both directions.
- Accounts for weights of wall supported on plinth beams considering contributory lengths of the beams.
- Considers shear in both directions and bending about both axes for each LC.
- Includes checks for Compression + Bending, Tension + Bending, shearabout both axes.
- User can obtain calculations for any user-specified pedestal size (to be selected from list of successful sizes).
- Less than 5 minutes from import of support reactions until complete design with 4 sheets of detailed calculations and sketch with rebar details.
- “Most economical design” using unit rates of concrete, rebar, formwork, and labour.
Salient Features:
- Uniquely designed user interface for input of design parameters w.r.t building geometry and wind parameters.
- Design wind pressures on various members of any 3D gable-framed building/PEB can be obtained in just 30 seconds.
- 4 sheets of tabulated wind pressures generated at a mouse click.
- Provision for having canopy on any or both sides of the building.
- Provision for both “triangular” and “rectangular” shapes for the roof monitor.
- Lot of other features to ease your wind load estimation and to handle changes from your client.
Salient Features:
- Designs our one-way & two-way slab panels, for all boundary conditions, at just a mouse click.
- Uses built-in design tables & charts of relevant design code. User intervention is not required during the entire design process.
- Allows user to choose different load factors for DL, LL & blast loads.
- Includes checks for Flexure , Shear and Deflection
- Output contains detailed ‘step-by-step’ calculations for various limit states for both design & serviceability.
- User defined increments for bar spacing and slab thickness.
Salient Features:
• Any of the 3 shapes viz. rectangular, trapezoidal and circular can be selected as the c/s for the SWD.
• Uses Manning’s formula for velocity calculations.
• Freeboard can be input as either an absolute value or a % of the total depth (or pipe diameter).
• Any of the 11 different types of materials can be selected for run-off coefficient.
• Any one from the 23 different types of materials for the SWD can be selected to obtain Manning’s coefficient.
• Intuitive steel MTO for any steel structure.
• Provides an alternative to extraction from 3D model.
• Accurate to within 3% of actual material supplied.
• Includes 37 different steel elements.
• Easy for handover without too many instructions.
• Easy to revise and to trace/ track changes.
• Covers prismatic and tapered sections.
• Covers rolled and built-up sections.
• Accommodates special items based on weights per unit length, unit area and unit no.
• Pi-Chart generated for 5 different MTO groups.