Software for Analysis and Design Of Industrial Structure

Abstract

Software plays a vital role in analysis and design of different types of structures with different configurations. It is reducing the work as well the time for the analysis and design of Structure. In the last four decades there has been a great expansion in the programming and designing procedures. This has opened a new era in analysis and design for wide range of problems. Most of building material used in the industrial building, steel is perhaps the most universally acceptable as a versatile material for construction. The primary aim of the present work is to Analysis and design of Gantry girder, Purlins, different roof trusses, side rail with sag rod, columns and beams of industrial structures as per new IS 800-2007 and prepare a software that analyze and design all this components of Steel Industrial building Structures based on various loading conditions. Visual Basic is used as the programming and designing language for Software design & SAP 2000 is used for analysis. The prepared software is very user friendly. By providing suitable input data it will give a most economical section design by considering all necessary checks. It gives the complete solution for analysis and design of Gantry girder up to 250 kN capacity crane. The prepared software produce a complete 3D model of industrial building structure in a SAP2000 software and apply all necessary loads such as Dead loads, live load, wind loads, crane loads and also generates all required load combination and importing all analysis result value from SAP 2000. On that analysis the design is carried out with all required checks and details. Standard Steel Sections, which are given in steel table and approved by I.S., are used. And these Standard Sections are easily available and widely used in practice.