Cast-In-Place Anchor Template or Program
Cast-In-Place Anchor Template or Program
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Does anyone know of any good (and free!) cast-in-place anchor calculation templates and/or programs? I'm looking for applications in both piers and in slab on grade. Hilti's PROFIS Anchor program seams to leave out some breakout checks and I'm not sure how Powers PDA program holds up.






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Simpson also makes one.
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TME, I've never heard of that one. I'll have to check it out.
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jayrod12 is also right that Simpson's program does a great job as well. The reason I personally use Powers PDA over Simpson is our precast plants use Powers products for all our epoxy anchor systems.
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I'd have to go back in and look at what exactly it left out. And it may have changed, since the last time I checked it (about 2 years ago). All I remember was that it was a concrete breakout check.
winelandv,
Would you be opposed to sending me the excel file you've created for the checks? I'd love to have a jump start on creating my own.
TehMightyEngineer,
Are you saying The Powers PDA does that baseplate check or Powers has an additional program that does it? I haven't noticed that the PDA does a baseplate check if it does.
Thanks for the comments y'all.
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I'm going to refrain from distributing my spreadsheet - it's definitely in a beta state, and hasn't been thoroughly vetted for all the possible situations/geometries that can arise.
Also, I found that going through and putting the App D equations into the spreadsheet really helped me understand App D much better.
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American Concrete Industries
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Note: Looks like I can only attach one file per post so I'll post the second file below.
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Let me start by saying I am not up to speed on either of these programs, but is the Powers program considering a 75 inch base plate?
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Looking in the help file, Powers appears to add in the baseplate (fixure) thickness which Hilti does not from what I can tell. Otherwise it appears they should be calculating Lb the same and getting roughly similar numbers for the capacity. Overall I'd say it's an error (or there's something hidden in the black box we are missing).
I'm going to actually email Powers about this as I don't think there should be such a drastic difference between the two.
Edit: See above, dylansdad has the answer. Your baseplate thickness is set to 75 inches. 50% of this thickness = 37.5 inches and the source of the discrepancy.
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Looks like that was the case. Appears you have to enter the leading zero as in 0.75". No leading zero and it doesn't recognize the decimal. I guess that's what happened and I didn't catch it in the printed output.
Worth noting that it also doesn't scale the baseplate thickness graphically like the Hilti program does. Can't dummy proof it for everyone but it would have helped me catch the mistake.