Steel Base Plate Analysis & Design

Module Summary

• Analyzes and designs individual steel base plates
• Includes full rolled steel section database for column selection
• Incorporates axial loads, shear loads parallel to the web of a wide flange column, and moments about the strong axis of the column
• Offers two options for determining the assumed bearing area
• Incorporates either ASD or LRFD design methodology
• Provides flexible method of defining anchor bolt locations and strengths
• Offers the convenience of fill-in-the-blanks style forms and instantaneous recalculation to facilitate the evaluation of “what-if” scenarios
• Provides highly efficient results summaries as well as generous detail in the on-screen and printed results