R.C. Design Software: ESTEEM 8


ESTEEM 8 Integrated Total Solution is now a completely brand new application with numerous fascinated  breakthroughs and feature improvements. Bundled with amazing technical innovations, ESTEEM 8 comes with significant increase in performance, productivity and user-friendliness. The application now has a completely new, more user friendly interface for maximised user-experience.



Above & Much Beyond EsteemPlus Expectation
  • World-class Integrated Total Solution for automatic modeling, analysis, design and detailing
  • Greatly increase productivity, performance, reliability, accuracy and safety standard
Artificial Intelligent Finite Element Mesh (FEM)
  • Auto support for beam intersections
  • Auto pattern loading for beam moment/shear/torsion envelop design
  • Auto moment release for simply supported (beam end/drop/width difference, slab drop)
  • Fully handle for slab opening, line load, patch load, point load
  • Flexible floor by floor (non-uniform in elevation) shear wall modeling
  • Strut and tie design for transfer wall
  • Couple Beam-Column/Wall FEM compatibility for greater results accuracy
  • 3D RC Wall contour/ 2D floor plan contour view


 Advance Features
  • Taper or arch beam design and detailing
  • Analysis results diagram (Moment, shear, torsion, deflection, stress) in 3D/plan view
  • Wall sub-frame moment from pattern load in design
  • Flat slab rigid zone modeling and pattern loading
  • Interactive optimisation in design
  • Interactive clicking of post-processing/results data information with floor plan members
  • Automatic project batching processing (from analysis to DWG/DXF export) from individual floor plans until last (foundation) stage

SPECIFICATIONS:
Total Input
  1. Floor key plan input with fully integrated project management and status control of analysis and design.
  2. GUI inputs using mouse to drag and draw with text object viewer.
  3. Transparent features with primary and secondary icons.
  4. Non-orthogonal floor key plan grids.
  5. Intelligent input short-cuts, such as auto data generation and data checking.
  6. Architectural import of grids, columns and beams.
Total Output
  1. Compliance with the BS8110:1985 / 1997; CP65.
  2. Comprehensive and total output.
    - Concise textual calculation and detailing output.
    - Captivating user-friendly graphical interface.
    - Compatibility to CAD drawing through DXF files.
  3. Choice to freely configure rebar detailing and draughting.
    - Customised to local consultants context and culture.
    - Completed details of slab, beam, column, wall and footing for draughting, including(but not limited to) the column/wall schedule, footing key plan and schedule for both pad and pile foundation.
    - Configure freely the design and detailing parameters for automatic selection and detailing of rebar.
    - Control fully the vertical drop in slab and beam.
Grid Line
  1. Non-orthogonal grid line input (region). A 360 degree of freedom to input any gridline according to requirement.
  2. Grid line can be intercepted freely without any discrepancy.
  3. Minimum grid-to-grid distance 1 mm. This remove the limitation of design and layout plan.
  4. Edit to hide/show any grid line. (especially on region grid line)
  5. Controllable indent in/out grid mark.
  6. Copy/Mirror grid line. (Including structural members between the grid line)
3-D Analysis
  1. Total integration of floor key plans for 3-D analysis.
  2. Automatic adaptive mesh generation for well-graded triangular and quadrilateral shell elements.
  3. Full integration of total input of beam, column and wall for automatic 3-D modeling, including wall opening, offsets of beam, column and wall.
  4. 3-D perspective view and modeling view in 3-D, plan and side elevations. Fly-Through animation.
  5. Post-analysis load combinations, graphical deflection and analysis textual output.
  6. Optimised grid/floor no. using virtual memory.
  7. Mapping of elements to actual identification of slab, beam, column and wall in total input.
  8. Automatic data feed-back from floor plan analysis for 3-D analysis and vice versa for floor plan design of beam and column, that is full integration of:
    a.)  all floor plans gravity load effects for 3-D analysis  based on actual beam support in total input.
    b.) wind/notional load effects for total project design and detailing of beam, column, wall, pile and pad footing.
  9. P-Delta analysis of selected load combinations.
Plan Loading/Result View
  1. Intensive 2D and 3D loading and result view to easily keep track on moment and shear force transfer.
  2. Instant graphical reflection on cases consideration (on moment contour, displacement etc. 
Utilities
  1. Automatic Detailing and Batch DXF File Saving capability for all the above elements. 
  2. Report in MS Word format(Table,header, footer and company logo)
  3. Customised report generation.

REINFORCED CONCRETE ELEMENTS:
SLAB
  1. Rectangular/user-defined non-orthogonal slab.
  2. FE analysis using automatic mesh generator.
  3. internal openings and drop.
  4. Edges supported by beam, column, wall, free or joined slabs.
  5. Taking point load, line load and patch area loads.
  6. Automatic full integration of FE analysis to total output.
  7. Automatic rebar increment for deflection governed design.
  8. Options of normal steel bar and BRC design.
  9. Various shape of voids on slab input.
  10. User-define cut section on slab.
BEAM
  1. Analyses according to Clause 3.2.1.2 as floor sub-frame.
  2. Designs according to Clauses 3.4.4-5
  3. Automatic slab load transfer with options of:
    a.) “roof-line” distribution.
    b.) FE analysis of slab.
  4. Options of T-beams and rectangular beam section.
  5. 10 different load types including triangular, trapezoidal and partial UDL load types to be input as a single undivided data.
  6. Deflection control check according to Clause 3.4.6
  7. Beam with different sectional properties and drop levels can be connected.
  8. Automatic full integration of 3-D wind load analysis into design and detailing.
  9. Full integration of transfer beam design for loadings from column / wall, including wind load effect.
  10. Curve beam input and design for torsion.
  11. Input beam freely at any interception point .( Instead of based on grid-line)
COLUMN
  1. Analyses and designs according to Clauses 3.8.1-4. 
  2. Rigorous section analysis featured.
  3. Automatic transfer of gravity load effects from beam analysis.
  4. Automatic transfer of wind/notional load effects from 3-D analysis .
  5. Transfer of gravity load effects is based exactly on floor sub-frame analysis with patterned loading.
  6. Check for minimum eccentricity and slenderness.
  7. True biaxial bending of short or slender column.
  8. Option for automatic live load reduction.
  9. Column shape :rectangular, circular, L, plus, T, U and V section
  10. Column can be rotated 360 degree.
  11. Various shape of openings on section of column.
WALL
  1. Analyses and designs according to Clauses 3.9.1-4
  2. Automatic transfer of gravity load effects from beam analysis.
  3. Automatic transfer of wind/notional load effects from 3-D analysis .
  4. Transfer of gravity load effects is based exactly on 3D FE model.
  5. Check for minimum eccentricity and slenderness.
  6. Options to design for reinforced or plain wall, single or double layer of rebar or BRC.
  7. Option for automatic live load reduction.
  8. Design consideration based on sub-frame analysis to obtain out of plane moments.
PAD AND PILE FOUNDATION
  1. Automatic design for minimum thickness satisfying punching and flexure shears at exact critical perimeters.
  2. Design for bending moment based on above minimum thickness, increasing thickness if necessary.
  3. Automatic grouping of similar footing groups.
  4. Option for automatic live load reduction.