ECTools now supports cloud-based licensing, allowing you to install the software on multiple computers while ensuring only one active instance at a time.
ECTools can now import models from ETABS and perform nonlinear pushover analysis using the fiber model analysis of Seismostruct. This feature is currently in beta testing and will be refined based on user feedback.
General Building Checks fitting the requirements of EN1998 or ACI CODE-318-25 & ASCE/SEI 7-22 US norms, 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.