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AUTOMATED
DESIGN OF MEMBERS
The analysis and automatic design of members: stress and
capacity checking, deflection checks, member proportioning
and reinforcing selection are performed in accordance with
a dozen of North American, South American and European building codes. Six design methods are available: LSD, LRFD,
ASD, USD, WSD and Plastic.
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To
initiate the AMECO design process of a building, there is
no need for the engineer to enter any member sizes; the
system initializes all sizes. Then in the multi-cycle design
process that follows these sizes are revised hundreds of
times to produce the least-cost design.
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Many
facilities are available to the engineer to control and
modify the automatic member design processes, e.g. suppress
nonlinear analysis, cracking, impose restraints on member
dimensions, on rebar types or sizes, change column splice
locations, override code provisions, etc.
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Concrete
structures may consist of flat plates, flat slabs,
waffle and joist slabs; one-way slabs;
beams with L, R, T cross-sections; columns with capitals and drop panels; shear walls with pilasters.
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Steel
structures may consist of beams
with rigid, semi-rigid and pinned connections, six types
of composite beams, open-web joists,
trusses, columns, bracing in vertical and
horizontal planes
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The
design result reports can be as detailed as or as concise
as the engineer desires. The formats of the reports is in
general compliance with manual design and drafting practices
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