The strategic use of software to plan, analyze, and construct durable structures using concrete. It’s pivotal in civil engineering and construction industries, ensuring optimal strength, safety, and aesthetic appeal in concrete-based projects.
CONCRETE DESIGN
PILE CAP
Design of reinforced concrete pile caps
Design
Design reinforced concrete pile caps supported by two to five piles, using a strut-and-tie method for analysis.
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What makes this module unique?
- Various pile arrangements
- Eccentric columns
- Strut-and-tie analysis
- Automated rebar generation
CONTINUOUS BEAM
Analysis and design of reinforced concrete continuous beams and slabs
Analysis | Design | Detailing
Design single and multi-span reinforced concrete beams and slabs, with rectangular, T, L or I shaped, and inverted T and L-sections, as well as tapered sections.
Analyse sub-frames with automated pattern loading of dead and live loads at ultimate limit state. Redistribution of moments and shears are done to a user-specified percentage.
This module can be used on its own or as a post-processor for frame analyses in PROKON’s Sumo and Frame Generate complete bending schedules for beams and slabs.
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What makes this module unique?
- Crack Width Calculations
- Analyse and design normal beams, slabs, flat slabs, and ribs
- Continuous beams with up to 80 spans
- Rectangular, L, I and T shaped cross-sections are supported.
- Automated pattern loading
- Post-processing from Frame Analysis and Sumo
- Detailed calculations
- 3D graphic of beam with rebar allows the engineer to detect clashes.
- Automated bending schedules
- International design standards included.
CAPTAIN
Analysis and design of pre-stressed reinforced concrete continuous beams and slabs
Analysis | Design | Detailing
Design most types of continuous pre-stressed beam and slab systems from single span to twenty-spans, encountered in typical building projects.
Cross-sections can include a mixture rectangular, I, T and L-sections as well as user defined sections and tapered sections. The module automatically applies pattern loading to entered dead and live loads. At ultimate limit state, moments and shears are redistributed to a specified percentage. Different to Continuous Beam, Captain can calculate estimates for quantities tendon profile schedules can be generated for use with Padds. Schedules can be edited and printed using Padds.
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What makes this module unique?
- Automatic pattern loading and moment redistribution: automatically applies pattern loading to entered dead and live loads. At ultimate limit state, moments and shears are redistributed to a specified percentage.
- Complex cross sections: More complex sections, e.g. box bridge decks, can be modelled with the aid of the section properties calculation module, Prosec.
- Quantities and Schedules: Calculate estimates for quantities tendon profile schedules can be generated for use with Padds.
RECTANGUALR SLAB
Finite element analysis and design of rectangular slab panel
Design | Detailing
Design rectangular reinforced concrete flat slab panels with a variety of edge supports, e.g., free, simply supported, or continuous. Enter multiple load cases comprising point loads, line loads and UDLs, and combine these with ULS load factors.
The program calculates steel reinforcement using normal code formulae. The automated reinforcement detailing allows you to edit the reinforcement and generate a bending schedule that can be edited and printed using PROKON’s Padds or Probar 2D modules.
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What makes this module unique?
- Variety of edge supports: Design rectangular reinforced concrete flat slab panels with a variety of edge supports, e.g. free, simply supported or continuous.
- Enter multiple load cases: You can enter multiple load cases comprising point loads, line loads and UDLs, and combine these with ULS load factors.
- Automated Reinforcement: Allows you to edit the reinforcement and generate a bending schedule that you can edit and print using PROKON’s Padds or Probar 2D modules.
RECTANGULAR COLUMN
Design of rectangular reinforced concrete columns
Design | Detailing
The PROKON suite includes three concrete column design modules: one for rectangular columns, another for circular columns, and a third for designing columns with any general shape.
Design rectangular reinforced concrete columns typically used in buildings. Design charts can be printed for easy audit of results. A bending schedule is generated based on the appropriate detailing standard.
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What makes this module unique?
- Unlimited load cases
- Axial forces and bi-axial bending are considered for the design.
- Groups of columns analysed in Frame or Sumo can be imported for rapid design and detailing.
- Automated bending schedules
- Detailed calculations
- International design standards included.
CIRCULAR COLUMN
Design of circular reinforced concrete columns
Design | Detailing
The PROKON suite includes three concrete column design modules: one for rectangular columns, another for circular columns, and a third for designing columns with any general shape.
Design circular reinforced concrete columns typically used in buildings. Design charts can be printed for easy auditing of results. A bending schedule is generated based on the appropriate detailing standard.
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What makes this module unique?
- Unlimited load cases
- Axial forces and bi-axial bending are considered for the design.
- Groups of columns analysed in Frame or Sumo can be imported for rapid design and detailing.
- Automated bending schedules
- Detailed calculations
- International design standards included.
GENERAL COLUMN
Design any shape of reinforced concrete column.
Design | Detailing
The PROKON suite includes three concrete column design modules: one for rectangular columns, another for circular columns, and a third for designing columns with any general shape.
This module designs columns that do not necessarily fall inside the scope of the code requirements for the simplified method approach. The program, therefore, reverts to first principles, strain compatibility and equilibrium of forces.
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- What makes this module unique?
- Concrete columns with any general shape including openings.
- Evaluate column capacity for entered reinforcing.
- Automated bending schedules
- Detailed calculations
- International design standards included.
RETAINING WALL
Design various configurations of reinforced concrete retaining walls
Design | Detailing
Analyse concrete retaining walls for normal soil and surcharge loads or seismic load conditions.
The program can design most conventional retaining walls, including cantilever, simply supported and propped cantilever walls.
Analyse walls with complex geometries like backward or forward sloping walls and toes, as well as walls that have a varying thickness with their height.
Choose between the Rankine and Coulomb theories and incorporate seepage in the analysis. A water table can also be specified.
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What makes this module unique?
- Cantilever, propped cantilever, and gravity type walls
- Bearing, overturning and slip are checked at ULS and SLS
- Different load cases, including point loads and line loads on the backfill.
- Single source principle as recommended by EC7 applies to hydrostatic pressures.
- Custom wall geometries
- Both Coulomb and Rankine theories are supported
- Default or user-defined lateral pressure coefficients
- Detailed diagrams showing loads and application points.
- Automated bending schedules
- Detailed calculations
- International design standards included.
PAD FOOTING
Design isolated reinforced concrete pad footings
Design
Design rectangular concrete column bases for stability and strength. The module allows you to design bases with up to two columns (or points of load application), stub columns, or no columns; each with multiple load cases. Link analysis results from PROKON’s Frame and Sumo with the program. The output diagrams include that of the bearing stress distribution, safety factors for slip and overturning, linear shear, and punching shear checks, as well as required reinforcement for flexure. A reinforcement bending schedule generator creates drawings that can be edited and printed with Padds or Probar 2D.
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What makes this module unique?
- Design pad footings supporting up to two columns.
- Optimise base dimensions according to the cost of concrete and reinforcing.
- Bearing, overturning and slip are checked at ULS and SLS
- Bases are designed for bending and shear.
- Automated bending schedules
- Detailed calculations
- International design standards included.
CRACK WIDTH
Beam and slab crack width design
Design
Design reinforced concrete sections to meet specific crack requirements.
Both rectangular beam and slab sections can be designed to resist the effects of axial tension, bending moment and temperature and the combination thereof. Temperature effects are also included to evaluate early cracking and long-term thermal cracking.
The program accounts for concrete shrinkage due to hydration by a combination of the thermal expansion coefficient and the restraint factor. The design method employed by the codes is ideally suited for non-temperate regions like Europe.
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What makes this module unique?
- Design rectangular beam and slab sections to resist the effects of axial tension, bending moment and temperature and the combination thereof.
- Evaluate early and long-term cracking.
- Multiple sets of bars calculated.
- Detailed calculations
- International design standards included.
BEAM SECTION
Design of concrete beam sections
Design
This program can design rectangular and T-sections subject to shear, bending and torsion. The user can decide whether the flange participates in the torsional resistance. The single input table makes it quick and easy to enter the section geometry and ultimate loading. Moment redistribution is allowed.
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What makes this module unique?
- Simplified input
- Shear, moment, and torsional capacities are evaluated.
- Suggested reinforcement calculations.
- Detailed calculations
- International design standards included.
PUNCHING SHEAR
Design for flat slab punching shear
Design
Design reinforced concrete flat slabs for punching shear at internal, edge and corner columns by specifying the distance from the support to the slab edge; the program automatically determines the shear perimeters.
You can also enter the amount of longitudinal reinforcement (that affects the shear capacity) in the two main directions.
The design output gives the critical load case with corresponding amounts of punching shear reinforcement needed for each perimeter, as well as suggested reinforcement configurations and detailed calculations.
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What makes this module unique?
- Design slabs for punching shear at internal, edge and corner columns
- Suggested reinforcement configurations for the four critical zones around a column.
- Detailed calculations
- International design standards included.
