Steel Calculator™ Software

Name: Steel Engineering Calculator Software - SAFI™
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Author: SAFI

A must-have engineering tool for efficient validation and optimization of steel beams and columns.

SAFI™ Steel Calculator

The Steel Calculator™ software streamlines the verification process of steel beams and columns. It eliminates the necessity of inputting 3D analysis models and it is an efficient validation tool to quickly verify design results of specific elements of complex models.

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Steel Calculator™ Software

Structural Calculation Software

An essential tool for structural engineers and professionals across the construction industry, enabling quick validation and optimization of steel columns and beams per American LRFD/ASD, Canadian S16, European Eurocode 3, and Indian IS 800 standards.

The Steel Calculator™ allows to quickly verify, design and optimize steel beams and columns. It is also an efficient validation tool to verify design results of specific elements of complex models. It eliminates the necessity of inputting analysis models or manually ensuring compliance with standard section requirements.

The Steel Calculator™ is used as a standalone application or in combination with the GSE™ Steel program, part of the GSE™ General Structural Engineering software.

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Steel Calculator™ Software

Efficient verification and optimization of steel beams and columns

Explore the Steel Calculator™ software for quick validation and optimization of steel columns and beams, featuring a specialized tool to verify design results of complex models.

Robust Features
Powerful tool to verify, design and optimize steel beams and columns, compliant with American LRFD, ASD, Canadian S16, European Eurocode 3 and Indian IS 800 standards.

Efficient Validation
An effective validation tool for verifying the design results of specific elements in complex models.

User-Friendly
An intuitive and easy-to-use engineering tool designed to streamline your workflow, featuring automatic section selection that saves time and reduces manual effort.

Real-Time Visualization
A graphical interface for real-time visualization of models, support conditions, and loads.

Steel Calculator™ Key Features

Supported design codes

American LRFD or ASD standards
Canadian S16 standard
European Eurocode 3
Indian IS 800

Predefined models available

Choose from multiple built-in models:

Simple beams (common support conditions)
Continuous beams (up to 4 spans)
Cantilever beams
Gerber beams
Columns with offset loads

The input data consists of selecting a section shape and defining the basic loads, the design parameters and the geometric limits. The results of the Steel Calculator™ are summarized for each member and displayed on the screen, detailed reports are also available.

Supported section librairies

Standard CISC, AISC, and European sections
Parametric section shapes created using GSE™ software
Sections may be selected manually by the user or automatically by the program

Computation capabilities

The Steel Calculator™ can rapidly perform the computations for continuous beams and columns to carry one of the following tasks:

Rapid calculations for continuous beams and columns
Optimize by weight to determine the most efficient section
View all section results with behavior comparison table (includes best section)
Summary and full verification reports available for all cases

Required inputs: section types, basic loads, geometric limits and design parameters. To account for steel shape availability, the program can also perform verification on all section shapes of a given category.

Limit state design verification

• Tension
• Compression
• Bending
• Shear
• Bearing (supports)
• Tension-Bending
• Compression-Bending

Design standards

The steel standards with which the verification and optimization calculations are made must be selected. Users must define the combined loads for verification and design computations. The combined loads are automatically generated with the Steel Calculator™.

American Standards:
Limit States Design of Steel Structures
AISC 360-16 (LRFD)
AISC 360-10 (LRFD)
AISC-LRFD-99
Allowable Stress Design
AISC 360-16 (ASD)
AISC 360-10 (ASD)
AISC-ASD-89

Canadian Standards:
CSA S16-01
CSA S16-09
CSA S16-14
The CSA S136 standard is considered when the CSA S16 is not applicable. It occurs for Class 4 sections (slender sections).

European Standards:
Eurocode 3

Indian Standards:
IS 800-2007

Load calculations

Customizable steel design parameters: unbraced lengths, bending and second-order coefficients
Automatic load combinations based on major codes: NBCC, BOCA, UBC, ASCE 7, Eurocode
Automatic load pattern generation for continuous beams
Customizable load combinations and patterns to fine-tune the model
Supports various load types: dead, live, wind, snow, seismic
Graphical tools for validating models, section dimensions, and applied loads

Comprehensive reports

Verification and optimization results available for each model
Full results for all possible sections can be generated and printed
On-screen result summaries provided for each model member
User-selectable reports: detailed or executive (critical values only)
Graphical and numerical result visualization
Customizable printouts of input data and results
All outputs (graphics and numerical) can be printed or copied for use in external programs

Frequently asked questions (FAQ's)

What is the Steel Calculator™ software used for?

The Steel Calculator™ software enables users to quickly verify, design and optimize steel beams and columns. It is also an efficient validation tool to verify design results of specific elements of complex models.

Who uses the Steel Calculator™?

The Steel Calculator™ is used by structural engineers, project managers, University researchers and professors, students, mechanical engineers, architects, structural technicians, estimators and designers, other members of the construction industry.

What if I need a more robust tool for 3D Structural Analysis and Design?

The Steel Calculator™ software is used as a standalone application or in combination with the GSE Steel – General Structural Engineering (GSE) software.

The GSE software provides the flexibility to work with Steel, Concrete, Wood and Aluminum.

GSE Steel is a 3D Structural Analysis and Design software offering the capability to design, analyze and optimize steel structures, including cold-formed steel members. It aligns with industry standards such as the American AISC 360 (LRFD and ASD), the Canadian CSA 16, the European Eurocode 3 and 4 and the Indian IS 800 design codes, as well as the AISI S100-16 and CSA S136-16 for the design of cold-formed steel members.

The GSE Steel application allows to verify and optimize steel members with standard sections and non-standard sections and the program designs or verifies the whole or a part of a structure using standard sections or parametric section shapes (over 40 shapes available).

Learn more about the GSE Steel Software