AUTOMATION OF DESIGN TASKS

The AMECO-17 System automates 90% of the design engineering tasks, as compared to just 20% by the conventional structural analysis and design programs

red represents the level of automation
Design process using Conventional programs:

Tasks 20% computerized,
resulting in fragmented process
Design process using AMECO-17:


Tasks 90% computerized,
producing integrated process

The effort of designing structures can be divided in nine tasks:

  1. Layout – selection of framing scheme
  2. Loading calculations
  3. Preliminary member sizes
  4. Loading case selection
  5. Structural analysis
  6. Moments, forces, shears at critical sections
  7. Steel areas, deflections. New member sizes
  8. Reinforcing schedules. Material quantities. Construction costs
  9. Evaluation of the design

The two pie chart illustrate the approximate time spent on each of these task by the design engineer, when performing designs manually.
 
Ameco-17 computerizes 90% of all these tasks, as indicated by the read area on the chart at right. The process is totally integrated, i.e. data is passed over from task to task and thus one execution on the computer produces finished design for the structure

Conventional programs computerize small sections of the design process – about 20%, as shown in red on the chart at left. The process is fragmented – each task must executed on the computer separately by the engineer and the results combined manually to arrive at  finished design for the structure.

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