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Concrete Slab Software

Concrete Slab Software

Concrete Slab Software

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Anyone know of the best, least expensive concrete slab design software (most bang for the buck)?

Dik

RE: Concrete Slab Software

They might've renamed it, but PCA used to put out a program called adoss.  We designed literally millions of square feet of concrete slabs with it and I think it was a couple hundred bucks.  

Later on, we bought SAFE and used it some, but it's very expensive--never really trusted it either because it seemed to give some strange results that were hard to verify with hand calcs.

RE: Concrete Slab Software

(OP)
Thanks... I've used ADOSS about 20 years back and was wondering what else is in the offings... I still have a copy lf ADOSS somewhere... for DOS... Just downloaded a copy of RisaFloor and will give it a try this weekend.

RE: Concrete Slab Software

Cool.  Hey, I found it.  They renamed it pcaslab:

http://www.pcastructurepoint.com/soft/soft_profile.asp?l_family_id=28

Apparently, one must e-mail for a price.

I don't know about everybody else, but I really like using programs like that much more than SAFE and the other FE programs.  It's just so darn hard to verify what they're doing.  I know the EFM is an approximation, but I can at least reproduce the results if I have doubt.

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