 SAFE
INTEGRATED DESIGN OF FLAT
SLABS, FOUNDATION MATS
& SPREAD FOOTINGS
SAFE is a sophisticated, yet easy to use, special purpose analysis and design
program developed specifically for concrete slab systems. SAFE
couples powerful object-based modeling tools with an intuitive graphical
interface, allowing the user to quickly and efficiently model slabs of
regular or arbitrary geometry with openings, drop panels, ribs, edge
beams, and slip joints supported by columns, walls or soil. Design is
seamlessly integrated with modeling and analysis, and provides comprehensive
reporting of the required reinforcing calculated by the program
based on the user’s choice of design code. And with the optional
CSiDETAILER program, detail drawings may be produced almost effortlessly
for the slabs and beams designed using SAFE.
What SAFE Can Do!
SAFE offers the widest assortment of analysis and design tools available
for the structural engineer working on concrete slabs. The following list represents just a portion of the types of systems and analyses SAFE can
handle easily:
- Flat slabs
- Flat slabs with perimeter beams
- Basemats
- Two-way slabs
- Waffle slabs
- Ribbed slabs
- Rectangular or circular slabs
- T-beam effects
- Spread footings
- Combined footings
- Slabs subjected to any number of vertical load cases and combinations
- Pattern live loads
- Foundation uplift
- Deflections calculated using cracked section analysis
- Wall supports with out-of-plane bending stiffness
- Slab reinforcing calculated based on user-defined design strips
- Flexural and shear design of beams
- Punching shear ratios
- Design for twisting moments
- Automatic transfer of geometry, loading and slab distortions from ETABS
Integration
 SAFE is a completely integrated system. Embedded beneath the simple,
intuitive user interface are very powerful numerical methods and design
procedures, all working from a single comprehensive database. This integration
means that only one model is created to analyze, design, and if
CSiDETAILER is present, detail the entire slab.
Everything is integrated into one versatile package with a single Windows-
based graphical user interface. No external modules need to be
maintained, and data transfer between programs or modules is worry
free. The effects on one part of the slab from changes in another part are
instantaneous and automatic. The integrated modules include the following:
- Drafting module for model generation
- Finite element based analysis module.
- Output display and table generation module.
- Concrete slab and beam design module.
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