SECTION BUILDER
GENERATION OF STEEL, CONCRETE AND
COMPOSITE MEMBER CROSS SECTIONS
SECTION BUILDER
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General Features
Shape Availability
Editing Capabilities
Section Properties
Metarials Properties
Capacity Curves
Stress Contours
Prestress Check
Report Generation
Simple Sections
Compex Sections
Composite Sections
Built-Up Sections
Shear Walls
Bridge Piers
Retrofitting
Section Builder is a comprehensive Windows based, Graphical
Software Package for creating simple & complex structural cross
sections of steel, reinforced concrete or composite materials.
Section Builder includes numerous practical shapes that can be
defined parametrically. Sections can be picked up directly from
standard data bases. Arbitrary unsymmetrical sections can be drawn
graphically using a wide variety of drawing and editing tools.
Complex Sections can be built up by combining previously defined
sections with each other or with sections obtained directly from the
standard databases. Various options allow the user to obtain biaxial
interaction curves and surfaces, moment-curvature relationships and
stress distributions for a given set of section forces.
The Software comes with a set of examples and comprehensive
documentation and on-line help to aid in effective application of the
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General Features
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Fully integrated interface with Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Wide range of predefined shapes
AISC, BS and CISC standard Steel Section Database
Powerful tools for editing - graphically and numerically
Generation of various capacity diagrams and stress contours
Report generation capabilities
Export to AutoCAD via DXF file
Shape Availability
Section Builder offers a wide range of shapes encompassing the
basic steel and concrete shapes, database shapes relating to various
standards, bridge piers, shear walls and much more.
Basic Concrete Shapes include rectangular, circle, hollow circle,
hollow rectangle, triangle, flanged, angle and channel. The sizes
may be modified numerically or graphically. AISC (US and Metric),
CISC and British Standard database shapes with standard
dimensions and properties. Other user-defined libraries may be
added to the existing libraries. User can create general shapes
graphically using the drawing tools on the screen.
Section Properties
Properties ranging from basic area, moments of inertia to advanced
properties for complex sections, such as like torsional constants,
shear areas, plastic section modulii can be computed
instantaneously
Basic Properties
Area, moment of inertia about any arbitrary axis, elastic section
modulus and radii of gyration...
Principal Properties
Principal moments of inertia and corresponding Principal angles
Additional Properties
Torsional constant, shear areas and plastic section moduli
Editing Capabilities
A wide range of editing tools and options are available to facilitate
the creation of complex cross sections conveniently and accurately
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Shape dimensions can be edited graphically and/or numerically
Vertices of existing shapes may be dragged and dropped with snaps for
accuracy
Shapes of similar material types may be merged to obtain complex shapes
Graphical rotate, flip, align and stack functions are available.
A Rebar Editor allows accurate placement of reinforcing bars in or around the
section.
Capacity Curves
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Load-Moment Curves
Moment – Moment Curves
Moment – Curvature Curves
P-M-M Interaction Surface
Shear Stress Contours for shear and torsion
Stress distribution on any arbitrary line
along the depth or width of the section
Stress Strain Curves for Sections
Materials can be modeled realistically using one of the many stressstrain curves available for both concrete and steel. The stress strain
curve options include the ACI Whitney Block, BS-8110 Parabola,
Mander, Circular and Rectangular Confined, Elasto-Plastic, Strain
Hardening and a general User Defined Curve.
What you can do with Section Builder
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Can Create General Cross Sections for building columns and bridge piers.
Can be used for evaluate a shear wall core for biaxial bending
Properties of complex built-up sections and plate girders can be determined
Moment-Curvature curves can be generated for members for use in Seismic
Performance Based Design - Non-linear Pushover Analysis
Properties of cross sections for retrofitting, strengthening and rehabilitation
using jacketing can be evaluated using this software
Section Builder comes with Comprehensive documentation
Step-By-Step Tutorials and Context Sensitive Help