Fastrak Building Designer Explained
Loading Options
The automatic loading capabilities in Fastrak Building Designer represent significant enhancements over traditional analysis and design packages. Whether typical floor loads, or automated code specific wind and seismic analysis, the creation and application of loading in Fastrak Building Designer is fast, comprehensive, flexible and easy to verify.
- Complete floor loading applied as a simple single input.
- Line load, area load and point loads applied directly on to the slabs or beams for automatic load distribution.
- Automatic building perimeter load facility.
- Automatic generation of notional loads to take account of geometric imperfections as described in the 2005 AISC specification.
- Any number of load cases can be defined (e.g. cladding loads, wind uplift).
- Minor axis loads can be applied to members.
- Automatically calculates and applies wind loading to ASCE/SEI 7-05 low-rise buildings or rigid buildings of all heights method.
- Creates local wind pressure zones on the walls and roofs (including uplift) for the 3D model.
- Provides fully interactive wind pressure diagrams and coefficients.
- Also supports user-specified wind pressures that vary with height.
- Seismic loading to ASCE/SEI 7-05 based on the equivalent lateral force method.
- Automatic live load and roof live load reduction for columns and gravity beams.
- Automatic validation of load applied versus the total reactions for each load case.
Complex floor loads are automatically distributed
Automatic gravity and lateral design
Automatic wind load derivation
3D application of net wind pressures
