Rather than selecting an off-the-shelf solution, an engineer is able to create a design that offers the optimum beam with any beam depth, flange width or web/flange thicknesses (including asymmetric beams) creating lighter beams that can also offer cost savings. The software is said to offer enhanced architectural freedom, and is particularly suitable for irregular shaped openings, allowing ‘maximum flexibility’ of web service penetration including circles, rectangles and elongated shapes in whatever position required. Typically used for primary and secondary floor beams on multi-storey projects, applications include composite and non-composite plain or cellular beam construction with floor spans of 8-24 metres. Structural and consulting engineers, as well as D&B fabricators of steel-framed buildings, can download the free FBEAM software from the Fabsec website Trimble and Fabsec have developed a bidirectional link between Trimble’s design and analysis software Tekla Structural Designer (TSD) 2020, and Fabsec’s FBEAM software, which is used to design long span cellular beams to the Eurocode.
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