About this app
Steel Sections is a practical and quick aid for the structural design of metal carpentry works.A complete shaper with over 7,000 steel profiles: IPE, IPN, HE, HD, HL, HLZ, HP, T, UPN, UPE, U, angles, hollow profiles and heavy plates.
Functionality: creates a bill of materials and exports it, searches, compares and saves up to 50 profiles, calculates weight, surface area, section resistances and critical load of the members, solves isostatic and hyperstatic beams, checks the sheets through the thickness
Tested by leading companies that develop executive projects, architectural design studios and structural engineers, the App collects a complete template of over 7,000 steel profiles for the following products:
- IPE, IPN
- HE, HD, HL, HLZ, HP
- T
- UPN, UPE, U
- Angles with equal and unequal sides
- Hot finished and cold formed circular, square and rectangular hollow profiles
- Heavy metal sheets
The App includes the following features:
- Search profiles and consult geometric data by categories: quick search and advanced search by filters;
- Calculation of mass and surface area per unit length
- Calculation of the "critical load" of the rods
- Calculation of the "design resistances" of the sections
- Calculation of "stresses and deformations" of isostatic and hyperstatic beams
- “Favorites” section where you can save up to 50 profiles
- “Compare” function to compare the characteristics of different profiles
- Check sheets through the thickness
- NEW: BILL OF MATERIALS Allows you to quickly create a bill of materials, giving the possibility to export it in csv format or by copying to the clipboard
Future implementations will include additional products and features.
Furthermore:
- News section: latest news for training courses organized by the Foundation with direct provision of CFPs, updates on the evolution of the regulatory panorama, new releases of the App relating to additional products and development of new features.
- Members Section: all the Foundation's member entities: Associations, manufacturers, distributors and service centers, metal fabricators, manufacturers of machine tools, durability treatments and architecture and engineering companies.
- Further information section: technical contents regarding the certifications and reference regulations for each type of product, processes and protective treatments for the durability of steel works.
Fondazione Promozione Acciaio is the non-profit body established in 2005, which operates as a cultural body for the development of steel constructions and infrastructures in Italy.
FPA actively contributes to the innovation and competitiveness of the construction sector; disseminating and enhancing the design and technological-construction aspects that differentiate metal carpentry from other construction systems through intense editorial, communication and marketing activities, professional training activities and technical support. For the market competitiveness of metal carpentry constructions, the related casing systems and internal partitions, the Foundation intervenes with its own experts at the regulatory development tables at national and CEN levels.
FPA is the only body that represents the steel construction supply chain in Italy, a point of reference for all operators in the sector and recognized as an expert by institutions, bodies responsible for building and infrastructure development, the Real Estate sector and designers .
To find out more, see: amministrazioneaccademia.it
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