ECtools is now available

ECtools© is a design software for Reinforced Concrete and Unreinforced Masonry Structures that aims to facilitate the practicing structural engineer or the design office in the correct application of the several clauses of Eurocodes 2, 6 and 8. It utilises the analysis results of either SCIA Engineer© or ETABS© and can be used in the following cases:

KEY FEATURES

ECtools has some key features which when beeing combined render it one of the most efficient design tools in the European Market:

√ General Building Checks fitting the requirements of EN1998, such as:

• Automatic definition of building type

• Automatic calculation of behaviour factor q

• Torsional Sensitivity

• P-D effects

• Required seismic joint at each level

√ Application of the capacity design concept which is inhrent in all modern seismic codes

• Capacity design of joints (the weak beam - strong column rule)

• Capacity shear design of all members for ductile behaviour (capacity shear forces)

√ Flexural design of all 1D elements 2D walls and cores

with biaxial Moment -Axial force interaction, utilising a very efficient algorithm that produces fast results, while applying the cracked sections design concept with parabolic stress distribution for concrete.

√ Checking the design of a new building

• Input of the design results to be checked via excel spreadsheets
• Use of custom safery factors
• Indication of elements with inadequacy using red indictors in the status bar

√ Seismic Assessment and Strengthenning of existing buildings

• Input of the design results to be checked via excel spreadsheets
• Use of custom safety factors for verified materials
• Use of element ductility factors (primary & secondary elements)
• Available stregthenning options with R/C jackets of existing elements
• Indication of elements with inadequacy using red indicators in the status bar.

Contents

1. General description
2. Overview of the design procedure
   Project file creation
   General Options
   Design input
   Design output
3. Masonry wall creation
   RC wall creation
   Masonry wall creation
4. Arbitrary section designer - Nous
5. Pushover