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Product Overview
RISAFloor (Version
2.0)
Powerful and
Flexible Structural Engineering Software for Buildings to
manage loads, design members, generate plans, and serve
RISA-3D lateral system design information
RISAFloor has full graphical modeling capabilities that
let you draw and edit your model on the screen. You may
also use powerful spreadsheets that RISA is known for.
Spreadsheets make non-graphical editing easy, and
verification a snap. Graphic display of the model, along
with applied loads and rendering, is always available.
Presentation quality results are provided with interactive
results review, quality rendered graphics and custom
reports.
What’s New
The many new features we've added with Version 2.0 make it
even better. Some of these new features are:
• Designs hot rolled steel (composite and noncomposite),
concrete, wood and cold formed steel
• Multiple foreign codes supported for both steel and
concrete
• Full model plotting, “floor below” display
• Enhanced joist and joist girder design
• Faster, more robust floor
solutions
Modeling Features:
- Manage one model with
both RISAFloor & RISA-3D
- Parent and Child
floors that let you mimic one floor within another,
eliminating repetitive modeling or modifications
- Define core parts of
the building just once and subsequent changes
automatically carry through all floors
- Single project grid
used on all floors and in RISA-3D
- Versatile drawing
grids (orthogonal and radial)
- Universal and Object
Snaps allow you to draw without grids
- Automatic generation
of grids, columns, girders, walls, infill beams,
properties, loads, slab edges and decks
- Powerful selection
tools including box, line, polygon, invert and lock
options to quickly select members
- Modification tools
that change multiple items at once
- Multiple slabs allowed
on one floor
- DXF importing and
exporting of CAD drawings
Analysis
Features:
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Smart area loads
(additive or overriding)
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Tapered area loads and
line loads, great for snow
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Automatic 1-way or
2-way attribution of point, line and area loads to
beams, walls and columns
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Automatic Live load
reductions
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Effective width
calculations for composite beams
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Automatic checking of
deck/slab spans
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Simple and continuous
beams with pinned or fixed ends
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Weak axis bending of
members
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Detailed deflection
analysis and control
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AISC Design Guide 11
beam vibration analysis
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Automatic self-weight
calculation
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User defined load
combinations, easily edited in spreadsheets
Design
Features:
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Designs steel and wood
joist products
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Designs steel, cold
formed, composite and wood beams
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Designs hot rolled
steel columns
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AISC ASD 9th, LRFD 2nd
& 3rd steel design
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AISC HSS Specification
steel design
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CAN/CSA-S16.1-94 steel
design
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AISI 1999 cold formed
steel design
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NDS 1991 wood design
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Interactive member
redesign and updating
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Automatic assignment
of unbraced lengths with overrides
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Uniform and segmented
stud layouts for composite beams
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Optimization of
members per code, size and deflection criteria
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Construction dead and
live load checking
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AISC, HSS, CAN, ARBED,
AISI, NDS databases
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Steel and Wood product
databases
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Model freezing for
evaluation of pre-existing designs
Results Features:
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Interactive redesign
dialog lets you control the designs
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Graphic presentation
of color-coded member results and plotted member designs
- Truly
interactive spreadsheet results of: designs, code
checks, moments, deflections, shear, reactions,
vibrations column forces, column designs and material
take offs
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Relative and Absolute
(I.e. girder + beam) deflections
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Color plotting &
printing of area load and deck assignments
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Generation of CAD
drawings including beams, columns, slab edges, member
designs and reactions
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Standard and
user-defined reports
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Customizable beam
detail reports
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Saved solution results
RISA-3D Integration:
RISAFloor and RISA-3D are
so tightly integrated that they operate as one program on
the same building model. Optimize the gravity system in
RISAFloor and the lateral system in RISA-3D, with a free
and complete flow of information both ways. Lateral models
are created and loaded automatically as you model and
solve in RISAFloor. When you are ready to work on the
lateral system, RISA-3D takes it from there.
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Lateral models created
as you define & change floors
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Gravity loads are
automatically applied & updated
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Wind loads (ASCE-7),
including partial wind cases, are generated
automatically
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Seismic loads (UBC &
IBC), including accidental torsion cases, are generated
automatically
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Detailed reports for
Wind and Seismic load calculations
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View and edit all
loads in RISA-3D’s popular spreadsheets or plot & print
them even in the rendered model view
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Combine all gravity
and lateral loads in standard load combinations which
can be edited by the user
General
Features:
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Optimized for Windows
95/98/2000/NT4/ME/XP
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Completely stand-alone
or integrate with RISA-3D
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Real spreadsheets with
cut, paste, fill, math etc. All may be viewed
simultaneously, simplifying verification
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Dynamic
synchronization between spreadsheets and views
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Constant in-stream
error checking and data validation
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Unlimited undo/redo
capability
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Automatic data backup
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Support for all units
systems & conversions at any time
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Extensive
customization options & user defaults
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Comprehensive printed
reference manual with tutorial
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Encyclopedic online
help with index and cross-reference
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Instant online program
updates via WebUpdate
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60-day unconditional
trial period
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