GGSD Program Details for Mat3D

Mat3D

Category	Piles (lateral loading and groups)
Publisher	Dimensional Solutions, Inc.
Platform	Win95/98
Status	Commercial
Description	Mat3D is a general multi-pier mat foundation analysis/design tool for soil or pile supported foundations. It has the following features: Allows multiple system of units for input and output - English, Metric and SI; Supports ACI 318 and BSI 8110 building codes; Considers buoyancy effects in the calculation of bearing pressures, stability ratios and pile capacities for footing/pile cap design; Accepts unlimited type and number of load cases; Accepts unlimited type and number of factored and unfactored load combinations; Analyzes/Designs pile cap on square, and rectangular regular and irregular pile patterns; Designs square, rectangular, octagonal and circular piers; Provides multiple choices of longitudinal rebar arrangement in piers; Analyzes/Designs square, and rectangular footings/pile caps; Considers wide beam shear and punching shear in footing/pile cap design; Provides positive and negative moment reinforcement in the footings/pile caps; Provides multiple choices of footing rebar arrangement; Allows the user to change the footing rebar size and spacing; Accepts anchor bolt arrangement on piers for display on sketches and construction drawing; Generates material quantities; Creates user-specified sections through the piers and the mat on the fly; Generates detailed design sketches of foundation plan, elevations and sections through the pier showing reinforcement; Interfaces with Autocad, Microstation and SmartSketch to produce detailed construction drawings; Generates a summarized and a detailed input and output report; Design sketch of a mat plan and a user-defined section through piers. A 30 day evaluation version is available on the WWW.
Data formats supported	Drawings : DWG : Microstation
Supplier in United States of America	Dimensional Solutions, Inc.