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Concrete Transfer Slab Design: New MasterSeries Features Align with IStructE Guidance
Posted on in MasterFrame
For too long, transfer slab design lacked standard industry guidance, leaving engineers with inconsistent approaches, especially in shear verification. The Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) has now addressed this with its Design of Transfer Slabs guidance, but many existing slabs may not comply with its recommendations.
MasterSeries Workshop: Multi-Storey Concrete Building Design with Finite Element Surfaces
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Join our Free MasterSeries Workshop! Discover how to efficiently design a multi-storey concrete building using finite element (FE) surfaces, concrete beams, and columns.
MasterSeries Webinar: Best Practices for Modelling Reinforced Concrete Transfer Slabs to EC2
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In our latest MasterSeries webinar, IStructE Chartered Structural Engineer Patrick McGinley explores the essential publications, guidance, and techniques to accurately model and design reinforced concrete transfer slabs using MasterFrame: Finite Element Analysis and MasterKey: Concrete Slab Design.
MasterSeries 2024 Webinar: Reinforced Concrete Transfer Slabs – From Modelling to Design
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We’re excited to invite you to our upcoming MasterSeries webinar on Thursday, 27th February, where we’ll take a deep dive into reinforced concrete frames, transfer slab design and shear assessment using FEA modelling.
Case Study: Cookstown Credit Union Project [Webinar Recording]
Posted on in Connections
In this webinar, we proudly showcased the design in MasterSeries, a recent multi-storey steel framed commercial building carried out by ADD Consulting of Lurgan, Northern Ireland. We reviewed the most interesting parts of the project, the challenges they faced, and how they solved them with the help of MasterSeries.
Concrete Building Design from Concept to Construction [Webinar Recording]
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Watch the recording of our webinar and get a taste of concrete building design to Eurocode 2, all within the user-friendly MasterSeries.
MasterSeries 2023 is here!
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After a busy year at MasterSeries since the release of MasterSeries 2022, we are proud to announce the Full Version release of MasterSeries 2023 is here!
Designing Concrete Pad Foundations using the Eurocode 7 Direct Method - with MasterSeries 2023
Posted on in Concrete Design
The latest "MasterSeries 2023" release now boasts additional features to MasterKey: Concrete Design for Pad Foundations, which gives you an additional Geotechnical Method for designing Pad Foundations known as the Eurocode 7 Direct Method, as well as our existing more conventional and conservative Prescriptive Method.
Designing Concrete Slabs using finite element analysis [WEBINAR RECORDING]
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Watch the recording of our latest webinar and learn how to analyse and design reinforced concrete slabs using finite element analysis.
How to design Pile Caps & Pad Foundations in MasterSeries [WEBINAR RECORDING]
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Watch the recording of our latest webinar and learn how to design and detail RC pile caps with up to 9 piles and pad foundations by integrating directly with the 3D structural model.