Compos

Compos Benefits

Analyse and design studded composite steel beams with ease
Design to ultimate and serviceability limit states
No other software enables users to analyse the effects of using the Resotec Damping System from Richard Lees Steel Decking

About This Software

Powerful analysis and design of studded composite steel beams

Compos is a unique composite beam analysis design program. No other software enables users to analyse the effects of using the Resotec Damping System from Richard Lees Steel Decking.

Get more analysis and design for your money

From handling variable slab widths and thicknesses to calculating the response factor from footfall-induced vibration, Compos is a powerful tool. The program handles tapering plate girders easily, as well as web penetrations and notches, with or without stiffeners. With the additional benefit of being able to analyse the effects of Resotec Damping, Compos is used by many engineering designers.

With Compos, users can design to ultimate and serviceability limit states, such as vibration frequency, deflection, beam weight and depth. Beams can be linked together, so that secondary beams load primary ones. The software does everything an engineer needs to analyse and design composite steel beams at construction and final stages — including automatically selecting beams and studs.

Compos is a cost-effective choice for engineers analysing and designing studded composite steel beams.

Quick Overview

Compos is a unique composite beam analysis design program. No other software enables users to analyse the effects of using the Resotec Damping System from Richard Lees Steel Decking.

Features

What makes Compos so unique?

Footfall induced vibration checks - calculate the Response Factor
Resotec - analyse the effects of using Richard Lees damping system.
Tapering plate girders
Variable slab widths and thicknesses

Design Codes:

BS5950: Part 3:Section 3.1: 1990
BS5950: Part 3:Section 3.1: 2010 amendment
EN 1994-1-1:2004 Eurocode 4
EN 1994-1-1:2004 Eurocdoe 4 (UK)

Specification used for web opening design:

SCI Publication 355: Design of composite beams with large web openings

Footfall induced vibration analysis is based on:

Willford, M.R. & Young, P. (2006) A Design Guide for Footfall Induced Vibration of Structures, The Concrete Centre, CCIP-016.

Resotec damping calculation is based on:

Ross, D, Ungar, E E & Kerwin, E M, "Damping of plate flexural vibration by means of viscoelastic laminae".
Analysis and design of composite steel beams, including automatic beam and stud selection
Tapering plate girders
Variable slab widths and thicknesses
Web penetrations and notches, with or without stiffeners
Design to ultimate and serviceability limit states, such as vibration frequency, deflection, beam weight and depth
Link beams together, so that secondary beams load primary ones
Footfall induced vibration checks - calculate the Response Factor
Analyse the effects of using the Resotec Damping System from Richard Lees Steel Decking. No other program gives you this.

Plus everything that you expect from a quality composite beam design program

Analysis and design of composite steel beams at construction and final stages, including automatic beam and stud selection
Web penetrations and notches, with or without stiffeners, analysed in accordance with the Steel Construction Institute Publication 068 "Design for Openings in the webs of composite beams"
Design to ultimate and serviceability limit states, such as vibration frequency, deflection, beam weight and depth
Construction stage design of steel beam, such as moment, shear and lateral torsional buckling buckling capacity at construction stages
Link beams together, so that secondary beams load primary ones
Automatic Section Design based minimum weight or minimum depth - Compos can automatically design a steel section from the national and international section database to meet code requirements and other criteria specified by the user
Automatic Stud Design - Compos automatically designs quantity and distribution of shear studs or checks your arrangement
Selection of load types - area, UDL, point, linear, patch, triangular, and moment loads
Catalogue or user defined decking profiles, plus solid slabs
User specified or automatically calculated effective width of concrete slabs
User defined or standard materials including steel, concrete, reinforcement and studs
User defined or code specified material partial safety factors and load partial safety factors
Design for propped or unpropped construction