Altair S-CONCRETE

S-CONCRETE quickly and accurately designs reinforced concrete column, beam, wall sections, and continuous beams to regional design code requirements. Users can save time by automatically checking thousands of concrete designs at once, and can produce transparent and comprehensive design reports that list clause references and intermediate results, indicating areas that require more attention. S-CONCRETE incorporates concrete design principles and state-of-the-art analysis techniques, making it powerful, versatile, and easy to use. 

Transparent and Comprehensive Results 

Altair S-CONCRETE enhances productivity with a design solution that generates immediate results in a single interface. Comprehensive code checks go well beyond the strength of the concrete section; design for axial, shear, moment loads, torsion, and more. S-CONCRETE generates transparent design results that include everything users need to detail and optimize reinforced concrete, including:

• Utilization status
• Governing load cases
• Detailing checks status
• Intermediate results
• Errors and warnings for failed checks with clause reference

Intuitive Automation

Users can begin with an estimate for section dimensions and reinforcement layout and then allow S-CONCRETE to automatically check and modify sections in an iterative design process to arrive at a configuration that meets all design requirements. Users can further fine-tune the S-CONCRETE-provided design in an easy-to-use interface that displays immediate code check results as parameters are tweaked.

Reinforcement tools allow users to select and control:

• Vertical and horizontal reinforcement material, bar size, count, and spacing
• Multiple layers of vertical bars in columns or longitudinal bars in beams
• Zones for concentrated vertical reinforcement in walls
• Tie and stirrup configuration, bar size, spacing, and hook type
• Splice type of vertical reinforcement for consideration in bar spacing checks

S-CONCRETE comprehensive code checks go well beyond the strength of the concrete section, with support for axial, shear, and moment loads, including torsion on sections. Generate axial force-moment interaction (P-M) curves with true axial force and bi-axial bending calculations based on strain compatibility of the section. Applied forces are plotted on capacity curves to easily show conformance for the analysed design. Automatic and immediate feedback for the engineer is displayed as design parameters are changed. In fact, one of S-CONCRETE best features is the speed and ease with which engineers can modify and design all parameters in a simple user-interface. S-CONCRETE’s comprehensive design code support auto-generates transparent engineering reports that include clause references, equations employed, intermediate results and diagrams.