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MasterKey I-Sections, MasterKey Hollow Sections and MasterKey Angles, Channels and Tees are interactive programs providing comprehensive design of steel sections to BS 5950.
MasterKey Steel Sections can be used on a ‘stand-alone’ basis or For greater flexibility, economy, efficiency and accuracy, all MasterKey Steel Sections link and fully integrate with MasterFrame and MasterPort to provide a very efficient analysis and design suite.
The time you invest in modelling and analysing your frames will be fully rewarded by allowing you to complete a fully optimised and rational design in minutes.
There is no time wasted re-entering data in each separate program with every minor change in the project details. This undoubtedly increases your productivity, eliminates errors and allows you to concentrate on real engineering.
“We use MasterKey Steel Sections on all steelwork projects, and are confident that it provides the optimum design solution. The speed at which we can design an entire structure is amazing, making the program the most invaluable tool in the design office. Perhaps the best thing we like about the program is the feeling of complete control over the design process, making the program the true steel designers dream”
David Clements, William J McDowell & Partners, Belfast
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GENERAL FEATURES
A comprehensive list of “easy to apply and evaluate” design checks allows you to quickly design any steel structure
Full control over all design parameters and section sizes • Full on screen design output is updated automatically • with each change in data for a truly interactive design
Automatic sizing • Uniform and tapered members • Design of UB, UC, Built-up I, RSJ, UBP, IPE, HE, HL, • HD, HP, IPN, W, CHS, SHS, RHS, Angles, Channels, PFCs, Flats, Round Bars, Square Bars and Tees
Beam and beam portion check •
Axial load with moments check • Elastic and plastic stability checks (Appendix-G) • Columns in simple multi-storey construction • Strut and tie member check • Design concrete encased I sections • Design haunched members with a different • section used in the haunch cut
Section capacities • Safe load tables • A full summary of the design data is displayed • with clear warnings of non-compliance
Section AutoChange by serial size or weight • order, allowing rapid section optimisation under the control of the Engineer
Automatic search for design brief failures • In-built steel section library for British, • European and American sections
Open libraries for other standard user defined sections • Concise output with options for selective printing • and single line per member summaries
Output appears on screen exactly as per the printed page•
INTEGRATED FEATURES
MasterFrame and MasterKey Sections provide the best tools available for the elastic-plastic analysis and design of steel frames of any shape and configuration in both simple and continuous construction.
MasterPortLite/PLus provide additional tools to those available in MasterFrame and MasterKey I-Sections specifically aimed at increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of single and multi-bay portal frame design.
MasterKey Sections provides the most intelligent bi-directional link between analysis and design - simply select a check and then apply it to any member in a frame, optimise the sections and then re-analyse the frame.
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Set up all member design checks for the • entire structure at the click of a button
Automatic sizing of members for lightest or shallowest • Auto-sizing for a group of members • to use a common section
Auto-size all members in the current view Set maximum • and minimum section depth limits for auto sizing
Torsion with combined bending design to SCI P57 • Optional live load reduction in column design • Easily control column section sizes • to satisfy splice locations
Automatic assessment of Sway • Stability by calculation of lcr
Nodal Deflection interrogator • Automatic global member checking, providing an • immediate overview of the suitability of sections
Full control over section sizes and the design process • Automatically select the worst load case for each check • Automatically check member stability to the exact • point of contraflexure for each loading case
Exclude or include loading cases as Design or • Deflection Loading Cases at any stage
Easy method for placing plastic hinges in any frame •
POWERPAD includes all three modules with a 15 member limit on integrated steel design. •
In POWERPADPlus and POWERPADGOLD allow for the design of frames with up to 100 members. •
You can remove these limits by upgrading these modules at substantially reduced rates. •
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