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MasterKey Concrete Beams, Columns and Pad Foundations are three programs for the design of the Concrete components in structures analysed using MasterFrame, MasterPort or MasterFrame Flat Slab Construction.

MasterKey Concrete enables the Engineer to detail as part of the design process, thus integrating the analysis, design, detailing and drafting into a single operation. As the element is detailed the program automatically checks the proposed cage of reinforcement against the design requirements of BS 8110 or SABS 0100. Non-compliance is graphically highlighted on the screen enabling the Engineer to interactively change the reinforcement accordingly.

The programs are easy to use, extremely reliable, and very flexible. Using the automatic design options, a multi-storey plane or space frame with

alternate loading can be set up, analysed, designed and detailed in a few minutes. There are automated options for design, lapping and curtailment.

“ We have found the analysis, design, detailing and scheduling offered by MasterFrame and MasterKey Concrete design to be time saving and user friendly. They offer our clients very clear, accurate and splendidly presented drawings and schedules.”

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MASTERKEYConcrete produces full RC detailed drawings either directly to the printer, or via AutoCAD as DXF drawings. Furthermore the programs can be linked to MasterRC and MasterRC bar scheduler to provide total integration of concrete analysis, design, detailing and scheduling thus further reducing design time and omitting information transfer errors from one process to the next.

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OPERATIONAL FEATURES

User friendly graphical interface • Short learning curve • Intuitive operation • Check an existing structure or Design a new one • Interactively change reinforcement using the mouse • Intelligent automatic design using an extensive set of • fully customisable design and detailing parameters, thus giving you full control over the design process and enabling you to rapidly optimise your design

Design and detailing settings can be stored and • retrieved on subsequent jobs for consistency

Automatic design of current member, • current run or all visible members

Freedom to change and refine • automatically designed structures

Customised bar labelling method for • use in different countries

Instant updating of Graphics and Design Output with • every keystroke, for full control over the design process

Find Next Failure function to scan all • members in search of non-compliance

Change section properties on the fly and • transfer these back to MasterFrame

All Failures are highlighted graphically to • enable easy correction and optimisation

COMMON DESIGN FEATURES

Recta-parabolic stress block • Full dimensional checking on • percentages, gaps and covers

Detailed, reduced or summarised design • calculations including dimensioned RC details

Copy reinforcement details from one • member to another reducing variation

SLAB DESIGN FEATURES

Provided as part of the MasterKey Concrete Beam design • Quick simple and continuous slab design • Quick simple two-way slab panel design for simply • supported and torsionally restrained slabs

Rigorous design of one-way slabs using MasterFrame • and MasterKey Concrete Beam Design

BEAM DESIGN FEATURES

4 groups of bars per zone in up to 4 layers • Multiple shear reinforcement zones • Shear zone enhancement • Full torsional design • Automatic curtailment of bars • Drag and Drop curtailment of bars • Cranked or Cage & Splice bar arrangements • Various link arrangements to suit your detailing practice • Automatic matching of main reinforcement at supports • Several analysis elements may be combined into a single • super (structural) member for design and detailing

Rigorous Tee and ‘L’ Beam Design of sections • with neutral axis in the flange or in the web

Investigate the effects of different beam sizes at design • time by changing individual section dimensions

Dynamic Moment re-distribution on a member by • member basis. This means the degree of re-distribution can be made to suit the proposed reinforcement cage

Links in pairs for heavy design • Scan Beams for bars over a user • definable maximum bar length

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POWERPADPOWERPAD includes all three modules with unlimited stand-alone column, pad • and slab design and a 15 member limit on integrated concrete design.

In POWERPAD• PLUS and POWERPADGOLD this limit is increased to 100 members

You can also remove the above limits by upgrading these modules at substantially reduced rates.•

Limit support moments and deflection • spans in beams with wide supports

Automatic inclusion of side bars • Inverted Tee and L beam design with full design of the nibs • including tension and torsional design of the main links

Rigorous design of one-way continuous • slabs analysed using MasterFrame

Quick design of Simple slabs provided as part • of MasterKey Concrete Beam design

COLUMN DESIGN FEATURES

Square, rectangular and circular columns • Braced and un-braced columns • Side bars considered in design • Uni-axial and bi-axial columns • Short or slender columns •

Design for high shear • Live load reduction • Up to 9 link legs in each direction • Helical links in circular columns • Stand-alone column designer •

PAD FOUNDATIONS DESIGN FEATURES

Uni-axial and bi-axial bending • Eccentric columns • Automatically detects service and ultimate loading cases • Automatically generates missing service • or ultimate loading cases

Surcharge option • Partial or full width wall in each direction • Walls may be eccentric on pad • Automatic pad size optimisation •

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Sliding checked against friction or cohesion • Full punching shear design for the 9 failure zones • Automatic curtailment in wide-pad foundations • Selectable curtailment methods • Starter bars and links automatically • detailed for concrete columns

Optional stub columns • Optional mass concrete pads and strip footings • Live load reduction from MasterFrame • Fire boundary forces from MasterPort • Ability to create a table of Pad RC details • instead of the traditional drawings

Stand-alone Pad designer •

Design the foundations of steel frames •

DETAILING AND EXPORTING FEATURES

Print full RC details directly to your printer • Export full details as a DXF file for beams, • columns and pad foundations

Export full details to MasterRC for high • quality detailing and scheduling

Exported details automatically loaded • into AutoCAD® and MasterRC

Intelligent re-use of bar marks for • identical bars during exporting

User definable scales, text sizes and fonts •

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Automatically break long beam runs • at user defined lengths

Printed and DXF exported drawings may be • scheduled using the MasterRC Scheduler

MasterRC drawings may be edited with all changes • automatically reflected in the bar schedule

The Optional MasterRC Scheduler can be called • at any time from inside MasterKey Concrete Design to obtain bar weights and other details

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