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Retirement Best Wishes to a MasterSeries Legend
Posted on in About
After 40 years in Engineering, 33 of them with MasterSeries, our Sales Manager Tommy White is retiring on the 31st of March 2022.
Introduction to PowerPad: The Complete Structural Design Solution for Engineers [WEBINAR RECORDING]
Posted on in PowerPad
Watch our Webinar and learn what PowerPad is and how it can increase your efficiency and boost your productivity through a real building project.
2021 MasterSeries Year in Review
Posted on in About
We’ve put together a quick look at our 2021 at MasterSeries and wanted to share some of the highlights with you.
How to design masonry walls with openings and wind posts? [WEBINAR RECORDING]
Posted on in Masonry
Watch the recording of our latest Webinar and learn how MasterSeries Masonry Design can increase your efficiency and help you to deliver complex and economical building solutions.
Holiday Closures
Posted on in General
MasterSeries Offices will close on Friday the 24th December at 1:00 pm, and reopen on Tuesday the 4th of January 2022.
Steel connections optimisation in minutes [WEBINAR RECORDING]
Posted on in Connections
Watch the recording of our latest Webinar and find out how to quickly create and automatically optimise your steel connections in seconds.
Hints & Tricks Webinar Part 2 – How to model and analyse buildings using Finite Elements [WEBINAR RECORDING]
Posted on in MasterFrame
Finite Element Analysis is an extremely useful tool for modelling structures that are too complex for regular beam element analytical solutions. However, finite elements raises many questions both in modelling and analysis.
Calculating long-term deflection and crack width for concrete slabs [WEBINAR RECORDING]
Posted on in Webinar
Watch the recording of our latest Webinar and get to know the enhanced MasterKey: Concrete Slab Design module.
Determining the Creep and Shrinkage Effect on Long-term Deflection of Concrete Structures
Posted on in Concrete Design
Concrete structures experience creep and shrinkage strains, which increase over time. Further more the concrete material may experience cracking, leading to reduction in stiffness. All these factors will affect the in-service deflection behaviour, but how can we take it into consideration in our design?
MasterSeries 2021 has arrived!
Posted on in General
MasterSeries 2021 brings many great enhancements including one of the most frequently requested developments to calculate long term deflection including load sequences, creep, cracking & shrinkage.