As Lisa & I traveled across the country with RAM International, many companies asked us for help in identifying software tools that are available as toolkit programs. They wanted to avoid modeling a full building in an FEA program, when really all they wanted was a small set of structural engineering calculations.
Many companies have written their own in-house programs, but maintaining these programs with constant code updates and performing extensive Q/A with documentation of processes/calculations can be very time consuming. Therefore, most companies prefer to purchase something that is commercially available.
Many engineers have heard of the program Enercalc, which has been around for a long time. (See www.enercalc.com) There are several other toolkit programs that have emerged recently as well. One of those is from Bentley Systems and is part of the RAM Advanse FEA program. These toolkit programs can be used on models analyzed within the FEA program, or can be used separately. (See http://tinyurl.com/8c5kfs)
In addition, CSC has a set of toolkit programs called TEDDS. CSC is a company based in the UK that has recently opened an office in Chicago. For more information, go to http://www.cscworld.com/tedds/tedds.html.
If you have been using any of these products and have feedback on your experience, please e-mail me at Brian.Quinn@FindYourEngineer.com.
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