IES QuickRFooting (pronounced "quicker Footing") designs and checks concrete spread footings with a little help from you.
This stand-alone program is dedicated to this task, making your job easier. The software has both a learning mode and a power-user mode so it works well if you design just one footing a year or one every week.
QuickRFooting is an open tool, exposing all calculations for checking purposes. The tool is perhaps the best on the market for ease of use, comprehensive ability, and professional quality reports. This tool can import the footing loads directly from a VisualAnalysis nodal reactions in a complex model.
Key QuickRFooting Benefits:
- Design Isolated Spread Footings Under a Single Column
- Checks Several Footings All at Once (for worst case)
- Based on ACI 318-02, with IBC 2003 Load Combinations
- Also supports Canadian CSA A23.3-94
- Automatic Sizing and Detailing (Optional)
- Advanced Handling of Biaxial Loading
- Offset Pedestal from Footing Center
- Checks Footing, Pedestal, and Interface
- Stability Checks:
- Bearing Pressure (net & gross)
- Overturning, Sliding, and Uplift
- Complete units flexibility
- Complete Reports with Equations and Diagrams
Basic Features
- Handles single-column spread footings
- Accurate calculation of bearing pressure under biaxial loading
- Allows optional pedestal, offset from center
- Checks several footings all at once (design for worst case)
- Designs to IBC 2003 or CSA A23.3-94
- Load combinations from IBC 2003 and CBC-95, or custom
Stability checks
- Checks bearing pressure, overturning, sliding, and uplift
- Maximum allowable bearing pressure can be gross or net
- Specify a passive resistance from the adjacent soil for sliding
- Specify the coefficient of friction between the footing and soil
- Specify an additional downward force to resist uplift
Strength checks
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Footing
- Flexure
- One-way shear
- Punching shear
- Minimum steel
- Minimum strain (ACI-02)
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Footing-Pedestal Interface
- Bearing on footing
- Bearing on pedestal
- Dowel development into footing
- Dowel development into pedestal
- Dowel tensile capacity
- Minimum steel across joint
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Pedestal
- Shear
- Axial
- Axial-bending interaction
- Biaxial bending
Miscellaneous
- Handles epoxy-coated bars
- Specify which direction bars are nearer to the surface
- Bands bars per ACI 15.4.4
- Bearing pressure distribution illustrated with magnitudes labeled at all four corners and location of neutral axis shown (for partial bearing).
Loads
- Load sets from more than one column (so you can design for several isolated columns at once)
- Can apply axial force, moments in both directions, shears in both directions, and overburden.
- Loads may be imported from reactions in a VisualAnalysis model.
Import from VisualAnalysis
QuickRFooting is a stand alone footing design tool, you can check or design footings without creating complex building models. However, if you are modeling a building in VisualAnalysis, you can export the nodal reaction forces into QuickRFooting.
VisualAnalysis will create an XML data file and then can automatically launch QuickRFooting to read this data file. The nodal reactions are interpreted as footing loads and the design may proceed from there. Alternately you could manipulate or use the XML data file in other ways before importing it into QuickRFooting.
What's the Big Idea?
Transparency! Verifiability!
IES Quick products get you out of the black box with Transparent Reporting. The software presents hyperlinks from every check to the complete check details including full algebraic expression of the code formula, substituted values, intermediate results, final results and "OK" or not! This checking and verification output is available on-screen and in a detailed report. (Summary reports provide a more concise output if you simply need to document the input and results.)
With most software products you either have to take the output on faith or go through laborious calculations to verify that the program is correctly doing what you want. Not so with the IES Quick Products. The software does the work, but you can check it every step of the way, and so can your checkers, the building-department people, or anyone else who needs to know.