ENGINEERING TIME SAVINGS
Our clients say that the biggest benefit of AMECO-17 is the amount of time the software saves them. The table below offers a few time-saving examples of real structures that were all designed with AMECO-17:
Project # |
Description of Structure |
Ameco-17 Design Time
(man-hours)
(see below for breakdown of total time spent on each project) |
Normal Design Time
(man-hours) |
Link To View Structure & Input Commands |
1 |
Variable span floor system of beams, slabs, drop panels on pile caps; 300 psf live load
(126 members) |
2 hours |
5 days |
Floor |
2 |
8 story curved office building in steel; with rigid and braced frames (588 members) |
6 hours |
2 months |
office-steel |
3 |
27 story hexagonal shape flat slab office building with shear walls (3,537 members) |
15 hours |
5 months |
office-conc |
4 |
Complex paper machine room (building) with two overhead cranes on stepped columns (1,340 members) |
22 hours |
7 months |
paper mill |
5 |
115 story skyscraper in steel; “perforated tube” with bracing core in service area (25,700 members) |
120 hours |
5 man-years |
skyscraper |
Click on any of the links above to review the brevity of the input commands and to view the structure.
Now, you be the judge as to how little time and effort was needed to define and design these structures. In the above examples, the engineering time savings exceed 95%.
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Breakdown Of Time Spent On Each Project
Project # |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
Total design time (hrs) |
2 |
6 |
15 |
22 |
120 |
Time to input initial commands (hrs) |
1.3 |
3.5 |
8 |
10 |
10 |
Time to review results (hrs) |
0.2 |
2 |
6 |
9 |
75 |
Time to revise input commands (hrs) |
0.5 |
.5 |
1 |
3 |
35 |
Number of redesign executions |
2 |
2 |
5 |
6 |
14 |
Ameco-17 execution times average
per run on 1.8 GHz PC (seconds) |
1 |
3 |
6 |
3 |
110 |
