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Construction (strength of materials iPhone App)

05/04/2012 10:43 AM

Hello,

The teams of Qualia Systemes and ATHIS present you Construction, an iPhone App dedicated to the calculation of strength of materials and reinforced concrete.

Who made it ?

Construction is designed by two French forms : ATHIS, a design office, and Qualia Systemes, specialized in computer engineering. The App is backed by the French Encyclopedia "Techniques de l'Ingenieur", a reference for industrial engineers.

Who should use it ?

Construction is useful for any worker involved in the construction field.

How it works :

The App allows you to check size of many architectural elements and handle push calculations. It is specifically designed for American and English professionals involved in the construction domain as it includes the imperial units.

The emphasis is put on ergonomics and guidance default (settings, reduction of the amount of clicks, copy for inertia's reports) in order to make it user-friendly. All settings are customizable at will.

Links to articles from the encyclopedia "Techniques de l'Ingenieur" allow you to check the exhaustivity of the formulas used : transparency is at the very heart of the application.

The available modules are the following : beams, columns, retaining, pile/micropile, flat plates, floating slab, foundation, frames, fire, inertia, punching, adherence, concrete pouring, as well as a repository of the unified standards.

Construction "Lite" (free) includes the Beams module, allowing you to try the application's possibilities.

Construction "Full" ($11.99) includes every modules.

Link to Construction Lite > http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/construction-lite/id406139397?mt=8

Link to Construction Full > http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/construction-full/id416557937?mt=8

Don't hesitate to give me some feedback, we want the App to be the most accurate and useful possible.

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Re: Construction (strength of materials iPhone App)

05/10/2012 9:56 AM

It's too bad that the Support Page is in French....and my French is extremely rusty, so it's non useful to me. Need a translation functionality here!

Does this software package adhere to American Concrete Institute (ACI) Standard 318-2011 "Building Code Requirements for Reinforced Concrete". What design procedures are used?????

Where's calibration test and critique documentation?

No INDEPENDENT engineer's reviews are presented.

Is there a "help" section and an "user's manual" available?

Tech support? 24/7? Free for purchasers of the software?

Frankly, I've found that too many (a vast majority actually) iPhone Apps devoted to Structural and Civil Engineering design are full of bugs and bad fixes; that too many are highly inaccurate in their solutions! Also, there is a strong need to document what the exact formulas being utilized in the specific module, as well as depicting US Standard Units, and not just SI.

Please provide more information, then IF I am satisfied with that I may be willing to purchase the software. In the meantime, I cannot assure that my designs will not fail.

As with any new software package, I perform a double critical check of it's accuracy and comparability by performing mirror calculations on paper. Yeah, I'm that tough and unforgiving.....once burned and will not forget it.

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