Foundation3D is a spread and combined footing analysis/design tool for soil or pile supported foundations for industrial equipment such as horizontal exchanger, horizontal vessel, vertical vessel or tower, pipe racks and other miscellaneous plant design.
Features:
- Allows multiple system of units for input and output - English, Metric and SI
- Supports ACI 318 and BSI 8110 building codes
- Generates wind loads automatically for exchangers, vessels and towers based on ASCE recommendations
- Generates basic load combinations for equipment foundations automatically with equipment geometry input
- Optimizes footing design (spread or combined) for an exchanger and horizontal vessel foundation depending on saddle to saddle dimensions and soil/pile criteria
- Considers buoyancy effects in the calculation of bearing pressures, stability ratios and pile capacities for footing/pile cap design
- Accepts unlimited type and number of load cases for non-equipment foundations
- Accepts unlimited type and number of factored and unfactored load combinations for non-equipment foundations
- Analyzes/Designs pile cap on square, rectangular and circular regular and irregular pile patterns
- Designs square, rectangular, octagonal and circular piers
- Provides multiple choices of longitudinal rebar arrangement in piers
- Analyzes/Designs pier extensions (no footing) for octagonal piers for lighter vessel/tower loads
- Analyzes/Designs square, rectangular and octagonal footings/pile caps
- Considers wide beam shear and punching shear in footing/pile cap design
- Provides positive and negative moment reinforcement in the footings/pile caps
- Provides multiple choices of footing rebar arrangement
- Allows the user to change the footing rebar size and spacing
- Accepts anchor bolt arrangement on piers for display on sketches and construction drawing
- Generates material quantities
- Generates detailed design sketches of foundation plan, elevation and a section through the pier showing reinforcement
- Interfaces with Autocad, Microstation and SmartSketch to produce detailed construction drawings
- Generates a summarized and a detailed input and output report.
