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MasterBeam Composite Beam Design provides a powerful and extremely user friendly program for the design of primary, secondary and mixed primary-secondary composite beams with or without web openings.

Due to the many advanced design features, this program has become the UK industry standard for composite beam design.

Used in conjunction with the 3D Model Manager, MasterBeam Composite Beam allows you to interactively design a whole frame by integrating with the frame model. This dramatically reduces design time and ensures accurate transfer of loads between members.

“We have found the MasterBeam Composite Beam designer a much valued tool. Its simplicity and ease of use have proved very beneficial in the design of our latest £12m project, No.6 Brindleyplace. It has also been used extensively for the concept design of tender projects. Its speed of use has allowed us to explore many design options, enabling us to offer a better service to our clients”.

C. Webb, Curtins Consulting Engineers, Birmingham

BASIC DESIGN FEATURES

Analysis and design of simply supported • secondary and primary composite beams

Design of secondary beams and primary • beams with transverse beams at mid point or third points (simplified menu)

Automatic design facility •

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Control the auto design by setting parameters such as • beam depth limits, stud spacing and mesh sizes etc.

Combined primary-secondary beams • Option for non-composite analysis and design • Propped or unpropped design • Natural frequency checks • Factored beam loads automatically • calculated from floor loading

The steel section can be a rolled I-Section, a rolled • channel or a built-up symmetrical or asymmetrical I-section

Auto design of built-up section with user • control over section and plate aspect ratio

ADVANCED DESIGN FEATURES

Notched supports • Web openings, with or without stiffeners • Additional point and distributed loads • Primary beams with any arrangement of transverse beams •

INTEGRATED DESIGN FEATURES

Setup all the composite beam design checks for • the entire structure at the click of a button

All beam data, composite loading and forces in the • members are determined from the frame model, dramatically reducing the input required

Automatic detection of primary beams, secondary beams, • edge beams and mixed primary-secondary beams

User defined design groups to control common • design parameters and section sizes

Automatic grouping of identical beams for reduction • in design output and faster auto design

Auto Design all beams in the current view • View the stud spacings and/or mesh • reinforcement annotated on the frame model, allowing easy rationalisation

Total number of shear studs included • in the frame statistics

Integrated composite beam design • requires the 3D Model Manager

OPERATIONAL FEATURES

Easy to use, very fast with powerful editing facilities • Results are automatically updated with every change • in input data, enabling rapid optimisation of design using a multitude of AutoChange facilities

In-built library of standard steel sections • and open libraries for other sections

In-built and open libraries of metal deck • profiles and shear connectors

A full summary of the design data is displayed • showing clear warnings of non-compliance with fast navigation facilities to display any part of the output

Design many beams in one data file • Automatic transfer of data from one beam to another • for rapid analysis and design of similar beams

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POWERPADPOWERPAD and POWERPAD• PLUS include MasterBeam Composite Design for the analysis and design of standard internal and secondary edge beams, primary beams with a central transverse beam or two transverse beams at third points.

With POWERPAD• GOLD you can choose to upgrade to the full version to include web openings, notched supports, additional loads, any number of transverse beams and mixed primary-secondary beams.

Global editing of parameters for all beams in the project • Find Next Failure function to scan all beam • designs in search of non-compliance

Print summaries as one line per member • In-built on-screen training • Clear and concise output • Engineer friendly•

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