MasterBeam: Steel Single Beam Designer (Free)

• Uniformly Distributed, Partial Distributed, Varying & Point Loads
• Fully Interactive Analysis with results updating as you edit
• Design to EC 3, BS 5950 & SABS 0162
• Automatic Load Factors
• Simply supported beams
• Propped Cantilevers
• Encastre Beams
• Cantilevers

• British, European, American, Chinese, & South African Steel Section Data Bases
• Generate I-Section Plate Girders on the fly.
• Angles, Channels & Tees, eg Ang, L, PFC & RSC
• Compound I-Sections with secondary Channels
• Compound I-Sections with Plates on Flanges
• Hollow-Sections eg SHS, RHS, CHS, LCHS...
• I-Sections eg UB, UC, W, IPE, IPN...
• Add sections to the Database
• Double Sections

• Switch between Euro Code and the BS Code to compare results
• Automatic design, optimisation by weight or depth of steel
• Fully Restrained or restrained at user defined points
• Generate and re-size one-off sections at design time
• Design of commonly used compound steel sections
• Specialist checks such as Appendix-G stability
• Design concrete encased I sections as beams
• Set Depth Limits for auto design

Steel Beam Design can be done using 3 different MasterSeries modules as follows:

1. MasterBeam: Steel Single Beam Designer Free Version - Simple 1 span beams
2. MasterBeam: Steel Continuous Beam Designer - Simple 1 to 16 span continuous beams and sub Frames
3. MasterKey: Steel Design - Requires MasterFrame and designs steel beams in any MasterFrame structure

MasterBeam Steel Beam Designer is designed as a complementary, alternative, software tool to using the full power of MasterFrame and MasterKey Steel to design simple, continuous beams and sub frames.

To get your free copy select the "Start Your Free Trial" button opposite, and fill in your details. We will then email you download details.

For 30-days you will have the full 16 span version, after which it will then automatically downgrade to the single span free version.