PipeSupportChannel vs A-Truss 3D Usage & Stats
Apps for design and validate of Channel Pipe Support, elevated piping need to to be supported to reduce pipe spanning and stress in the pipe. Program consider combination of Gravity load (Steel self weight, Pipe weight, Operating liquid load, Hydrotest load), Thermal load, Wind load and provision to include Seismic load.
Design use AISC ASD 9th edition 1989 Code, increment 33% of allowable stress for short term load is consider in the design.
User could customise size, column angle orientation (0 degree or 90 degrees), load and design parameter to suit the project, the program have function to compile the Calculation Report and send it through email. Format of the Report is suitable for standard miscellaneous structure design calculation.
Two available option of design unit : Metric kN-m or Imperial kips-ft.
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A-Truss 3D is an application for structural engineers or engineering students who need a tool to analyze the space truss.
A-Truss 3D analyse the space truss by using the Stiffness Matrix Method, providing following features:
- Easy to use UI with 3D graphics.
- Solutions include node displacements, member axial forces and stress.
- Equilibrium check is very easy, you can check against the truss model in 3D for the loads, reactions and moment arms.
- Truss Assistant Creator is very useful for the large and complex truss, to manually input the nodes and members for the Double-Layer Truss like 61 nodes and 400 members is very tedious and is prone to error, but with the Assistant Creator you input just a few information and the app will automatically generate all the data for you. "Double-Layer Truss" type is available for truss assistant creator and more generic types of 3D truss will be added.
- The app use the Direct Stiffness Matrix to solve the 3D Truss with the detail of calculation.
- With the 3D graphic you can view your truss in any direction.
- 3 options to view the truss
- Proportion: draw truss member according to the size of members.
- Equal: draw all members as same size.
- Wireframe: draw truss members as wireframe (recommend for large and complex truss)
- Truss calculation results as PDFs file format for printing and sending via email.
- Support for large Space Truss: the app has been tested on old device iPad 2 with Retina (since 2012) with the 145 nodes and 512 members without any problems.
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PipeSupportChannel VS. 
A-Truss 3DJanuary 8, 2025