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.
Download DocumentationFoundation3D 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. A 30 day evaluation version is available on the WWW.
Category | Deep Foundations |
Licence Type | Commercial |
Operating Systems | Windows 95/98 |
Developer | Dimensional Solutions, Inc. |
Developer Website | http://www.dimsoln.com/ |
Developer Email | [email protected] |