Fastrak Portal Designer Explained
Design
- Fast and efficient preliminary and detailed designs
- Fully automatic elastic-plastic analysis and design to provide the most economic design available for portal framed buildings
- Full hinge history to collapse including allowance for hinge reversal and spurious mechanisms
- Automated member stability checks
- Automated sway stability (including calculation of notional horizontal forces)
- Comprehensive implementation of SCI P292 for full second order elastic-plastic analysis when necessary
- Automated checks for snap through stability
- Deflection limits may be applied to frame prior to design
- Design for fire boundary condition
- Crane beam design
- Fully integrated eaves, apex and base plate design in accordance with the BCSA/SCI Green Book and BS5950
- Designed frame and connections can be transferred into 3D+
Hinge history
Auto member stability
Integrated crane beam design
Fully integrated connnection design suite
