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Secret Revealed
Now I am going to reveal
a secret that was shared by Divya Srinath Sir, Amit, Vipin and Sindhura.
Secret that everybody must have guessed. Last semester, I was asked
to do my project with Amit, Vipin, Sharadwata and Sindhura. We decided
to do project on structures with Mr Divya Srinath as our guide. After
the soil testing and slab analysis, our guide told us to start the
frame analysis. DS sir insisted us to use Takabeya's Method. Though
it's simpler than Kanis method, its still a hectic and laborious task
that we need to complete as early as possible. With the very first
frame I got so bored that I decided to make a computer program, which
will do all the analysis for me. I just told Pavan "Yaar this
frame analysis looks very hectic and I think I will be making some
computer program to help me out." With that the whole class started
asking me about that program and I politely denied even the existence
of the same.
I tried
programming using Visual Basic 6.0 and after few failures, I finally
got the prototype running in just 1 week. By then already it was mid
April and I was forced to stop developing the program and continue
frame analysis using the prototype version only. After the analysis
of all the 15 frames got over in just 2 days, I relaxed till the last
week of April, making the software I call "Frame Analysis using
Takabeya's Method (in short FATM) even stronger and advanced. I never
imagined that I would have to use that once again. Then comes the
design of beams and columns. But we didn't get the reinforcement steel
we were calculating for. Then it was discovered that there has been
a mistake at the stage of load calculation. That was 1st May and we
were supposed to submit the report by 15th. We had to start the project
now from scratch.
Vipin,
Amit and I went again to the first chapter. Thankfully the advanced
FATM came to our rescue and we finished the job in just 7 days, which
had taken nearly a month previously. That was the test of effectiveness
of the program. In the latest version, with the input of just the
frame details, FEM and relative rigidity it can calculate everything
from the corrected moment to mid span moment to reactions at every
joint of the frame with all the step by step calculations. DS sir
has really appreciated the program and told that he will be using
it to verify the work done by our juniors. So now it's available on
this site to download. For details how to use this software and to
get the READ ME file feel free to contact me.
Few glimpses of FATM: -
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