Fastrak Building Designer Explained
Automatic Building and Element Design
- Automatic design of complete buildings or individual elements.
- Automatic sway assessment of the entire structure by inspection of every floor-to-floor drift of every column under the relevant notional horizontal load case.
- Comprehensive implementation of the assessment of floor vibration to SCI P354 and DG11.
- Value engineering is provided by the ability to rapidly consider a huge range of design options.
- Sections can be hot rolled steel, plated sections, Westok beams, Fabsec beams, Porthole beams, ASB's, Slimflor beams or Steel joists.
- Composite design can be provided with a range of steel decking or with pre-cast concrete planks, and a range of automatic stud placement options are available.
- Concrete reinforcement may be by individual bars, mesh, or fibre reinforcement.
- Beams can be designed for web openings, with or without local stiffening.
- Simple, rigid (moment) and concrete filled columns can be designed.
- Columns can be spliced as required - including simple design.
- Column base plate design including moment forces.
- Floors can be tied by floor bracing or defined as diaphragms.
- Building/Frame stability can be provided by various forms of bracing including X, A, <, /, K etc., moment (rigid) frames, concrete shear walls, or a mixture of all three.
- Elastic, amplified second order and 'true' second order analysis can be performed as required.
- Automatic design of connections, including assessment of ability of the structure to disproportionate collapse.
Fastrak 3D design model
Floor vibration to SCI P354
Supports Westok and Fabsec beams
Complete design including stiffened openings
