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VisualFoundation will help you design complex mat footings. It automates much of the work involved in finite element modeling that could be fairly tedious in a tool like VisualAnalysis, which is general-purpose.

VisualFoundation will take care of the modeling details while you specify the locations, sizes and structural configuration of your structure. The software will analyze your footing slab to determine moments, shears, displacements and bearing pressures using FEA.

VisualFoundation will then help you check to make sure the footing demand/capacity ratios (unity checks) pass for IBC 2009/ACI 318-08 requirements, and tell you about the steel requirements for the slab.

FEATURES:

· Mat foundation analysis and design
· Complex mat boundaries
· New! Circular and Polygonal foundation templates and boundaries
· New! Create Thickened Areas inside foundation boundaries
· New! Generate Copies of modeling elements using rectangular or circular patterns
· Multiple mat thicknesses or soil properties
· Holes in mats
· Combined footings
· Wall footings
· Walls, grade beams, columns and pile supports
· Unlimited model size
· Support for IBC 2006, ACI 318-08
· Automated FEA meshing and soil-spring supports
· Sophisticated thick-plate finite element formulation
· Import & Export DXF files
· Import & Export with VisualAnalysis