When you’re away from your FEA workstation, you can continue to work on your design load scenarios with reliable confidence… these are some of the same equations FEA software is based on.

The BeamStress app was written with the busy Engineer in mind; the intuitive application interface will be a unique experience for those familiar with the typical tabulated desktop software menus. As you’re interacting with BeamStress you will notice your focus will stay on the design problem instead of searching thru menu picks...

The static graphic images are the buttons, simply touch the section icon to go to the section menu, select the material icon to go to the materials menu, touch a dimension to edit values, touch the constraint image to go to the constraint menu, etc... It is good practice to enter the dimensions, select return, then select section properties and materials.

BeamStress is a powerful engineering resource with 8 constraint systems, 20 cross sections, 19 pre-set materials and 1 custom material type available.

Constraint Systems:

-) Shear Stress
-) Tensile Stress
-) Const--- Point Load ---Free
-) Const--- Uniform Load ---Free
-) Const--- Point Load ---Const
-) Const--- Uniform Load ---Const
-) Support--- Point Load ---Support
-) React Force--- Support ---Load

Information calculated:

-) Max Stress in beam
-) Safety margin from Yield Stress
-) Max Load limit to reach Yield point
-) Deflection at load and/or end of beam
-) Reactionary forces (Cantilever System)
-) Weight of beam
-) Area of cross section
-) Moment of Inertia
-) Section Modulus
-) Yield stress of material
-) Tensile stress of material
-) Screen capture for collaborative work

Materials:

-) Structural Steel
-) 1018 Steel CR
-) 1045 Steel CR
-) 1095 Steel CR
-) 303 Stainless Steel
-) 316 Stainless Steel
-) Doug Fir
-) Oak
-) PC/ABS
-) PVC Pipe grade
-) 5052 H34 Aluminum
-) 6061 T6 Aluminum
-) 7075 T6 Aluminum
-) Titanium 6AL4V
-) 17-4 Stainless Steel
-) 416 Stainless Hard
-) 420 Stainless Hard
-) 4130 Chromalloy Steel
-) Zinc ZA-27
-) Custom (user programable properties)


BeamStress is a fully validated stress analysis application, it includes an FEA comparison as part of that validation work. You will notice the Stress results are with-in 2.7% of the FEA model, the deflection is with-in 3.5%; with results like this you can be confident that your early load analysis work will save you valuable time throughout your project timeline and help you keep the engineering and desgin centered with-in the required system loads.