Faster Than Any Other Popular Structural Design Software--Guaranteed!

What really sets the AMECO-17 system apart from other commonly used structural design software is the level of automation it brings to the engineer's most time-consuming tasks.

While some engineers choose to use other design software for lateral load structural analysis of multi-story buildings, i.e. for wind and seismic forces, they find the software is still difficult and lengthy to apply to gravity dead and live load analysis. While their software only computerizes approximately 20% of the engineer's design tasks, AMECO-17 computerizes 90% - see pie charts.

In 1980, the New York City World Financial Center's American Express World Headquarters was designed with Ameco-17 on the fastest mainframes of the day in just 8 hours, equivalent to 2 minutes on today's PC's

Design a 64 Storey Steel Building in 47 seconds

Consider the construction simulation of a 64-storey building involving the analysis of 64 different structures for dead load, then 9,600 live load cases (equal to the number of beams), plus lateral load cases. For a stiffness matrix solver, dealing with 9,664 load cases alone is a formidable task.

But for engineers who are on tight budgets and even tighter deadlines, AMECO-17 has perfected an innovative concept which is based on an incremental displacement method for structural analysis.

Subjected to external loads, the structure is maintained in a state of motion as the forces propagate from joint to joint, until equilibrium is reached. For larger structures, AMECO-17's multi-cycle design software executes 500 to 1,000 times faster than any matrix-based program.

The bottom line: thanks to the power of AMECO-17, you can design a 64 storey steel building with 13,000 members, subjected to 9,664 load cases, on a 1.8 GHz PC, in just 47 seconds!

AUTOMATED DESIGN OF CONCRETE BUILDINGS

40 YEARS OF RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, CONTINUAL REFINEMENT AND USAGE

Developed and supported by a team of practicing structural engineers and computer science specialists, AMECO-17 has been extensively used on projects around the globe.

These projects, with construction costs exceeding billions of dollars, encompass low-mid and high-rise structures, skyscrapers, aircraft hangars, condominiums, high technology facilities, banks, residential buildings, schools, pulp and paper plants, bridges, wharfs, structures for power plants and heavy industry.

Most of the commonly used building codes in North and South America and Europe are optional features, which have been incorporated into our design processes.