AFES - Automatic Foundation Engineering Systems (2006.06.20)

AFES is a comprehensive one-stop solution for all your foundation engineering and design needs. Due to AFES's capability to make reports, drawings, BOM and 3D CAD data, it is a very powerful solution for the design of equipment and steel structure foundations.

Background

• Foundation design is usually done manually this entailing large manpower needs, which is uneconomical and in turn leads to difficulties in meeting quality requirements and deadlines.
• The shortness of work period for projects, frequent design changes of super structures, difficulties in assuming the size of foundations for site and the need to check interferences between footing, underground piping, and electrical cable trench, and coordination with other teams are some of the difficulties encountered during a project.
• With the absence of a one-stop commercial solution that can solve the above mentioned problems, AFES is the system that can produce all the foundation design data needed for the construction of foundations, quickly and economically.

System Requirements

• Windows 2000 , Windows XP
• Pentium III, 800 MHz, Ram 256, HDD 200 MB, Resolution 1024x768

Features

Various features to achieve maximum efficiency with minimum effort are include as follow;

• One project can handle multiple footing types.
• Supports multiple unit systems for input and output. Can design various foundation modules.
• Creates footing geometry, load case and combination data through manual input or automatic import from ad structural analysis program.
• Supports soil and pile foundation with any unsymmetrical pile pattern.
• Automatic load calculation of wind and seismic factors for heat exchanger, column and tank.
• Extensive reporting functions included. These can be customized according to client requirements.
• Stress diagram for shear and moment along the user defined strips included.
• On-screen report generation with textual and graphical results.
• Supports automatic design of footing.

Application Area

• Equipment Structure, Pipe rack, Derrick Structure
• Horizontal Vessel, Horizontal Drum, Heat Exchanger
• Vertical Vessel, Vertical Drum, Small Tank, Large Storage Tank
• Stack Large Storage Tank, Ball Tank, Transmission Tower
• Heater Foundation

Benefits

Using years of experience and accrued technology, AFES has been developed with the civil engineer in mind, which in turn provides the best automated tool for foundation design and analysis. The benefits are as follows

• Significant reduction in work processes and automation of design work results in increase of productivity by an average of 65% while reducing human error to zero
• Reduction n design lead time enables more effective deployment of available human resources
• Real time updates enable the delivery of accurate products to the client, thus increasing client's trust

Automated design module provides cost-saving design solutions and economic comparisons of several designs, thus negating the need for a separate cost estimation software

Get the brochure

Visit the developers website: http://www.gsafes.com