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There is a brand new design tool available on www.steelconstruction.info which may be used to give an immediate and accurate assessment of floor response, for a wide range of structural arrangements. Nearly 20,000 Finite Element analyses of different floor grids, different composite slab thicknesses and different bay arrangements have contributed to the data within the tool. Designers simply select the arrangement nearest to the proposed solution, including the beam arrangement, spans and slab depth and the tool will immediately report the response of the floor. This can then be compared to the limiting response for the building type. This software tool has been developed by SCI and funded by BCSA and is part of range of free software to aid designers available at www.steelconstruction.info
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