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Concrete Slab Software 1

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dik

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Apr 13, 2001
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Anyone know of the best, least expensive concrete slab design software (most bang for the buck)?

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


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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