Some of the software options:
Designs or analyzes any I shape beam or any cap channel and beam combination
Design based on ASD, AISC 1989 edition and AISE report 13
Beam can be a hot rolled section or three plate I shape girder
Hot rolled section can be Wide Flange or Standard Beam
Plate girder can have unequal flanges to optimize design
Beam can be run with or without cap channel
Calculates any beam cross section combination
Calculates actual wheel load
Fatigue design, calculates stress ranges and design for it
Weld design, continues or intermittent weld
Deflection design, calculate actual deflections and report them
Calculates actual reaction bearing requirements
Designs for any steel yield stress
Designs end stiffeners as needed or force stiffener design
Uses your wheel load or the program's
Can change the combined stress factor ratio
Checks the clearance between beam top flange and cap channel (figure 2)
Figure 2
Recommends standard deflection limits, which can also be overridden
Recommends standard impact factors for different crane systems
Crane systems
Monorail
Under-hung
Top running, including cab or pendant operation
Clamshell bucket, magnet, ladle, stacker systems and more
Has two different impact factors for single crane and multiple crane bridge cases
Handles and runs up to four different crane bridges at the same time
Every crane bridge can carry up to two different hoists fig. 3
Every crane bridge can have two or four wheels at end truck. (figure 3)
Figure 3
Handles up to 16 moving loads at the same time
User can customize and change all data files to best fit their needs
The Load Data option loads crane bridge information from data files
The only one of its kind on the market
Can modify all crane data files to fit your needs, files such as:
Wide flange sections.
American standard sections.
Channel sections.
Girder flange plates.
Girder web plates.
Rail beam sections.
Crane data for top running, under hung and monorail systems.
