Peikko Designer® BOLTED CONNECTION offers you a user-friendly web interface and a powerful and flexible cloud calculation engine. It allows for defining columns with various cross-section shapes and anchor bolt configurations, supporting torsion as a load input. The software features an interactive 3D model of the connection, internal force distribution plots, and resistance domains for normal force and biaxial bending moments.
The new tool gives you more freedom as it enables the reliable and standardized design of architectural shapes that deviate from the mainstream. The tool is always up to date thanks to its automatic updates, and the simple and intuitive user interface ensures a good user experience. Just like its predecessor, the new generation tool for column connections is free of charge.
Main highlights for the latest releases
Version 1.3
Support for national annexes has been added for Eurocode and 14 countries. You can also manually modify all nationally determined parameters
Support for column chamfers and support for infinite faces in base geometry have been added
Version 1.2 & 1.1
Enhanced user interface and new features designed to improve the designing workflow
Project data is automatically saved at short intervals
You can view the protrusion height, effective height, and concrete cover of the anchors
Report page has been completely renewed for improved usability
Detailed concrete failure calculation results can be added in PDF printouts, which also have more finalized design in general
Detailed results include tooltips explaining the parameters used in failure calculations. Furthermore, units utilized in the software have been added both to the user interface and PDF printouts
Performance of concrete failure verifications has been further enhanced
Additionally, the interaction surface, represented by 3D onion slices in joint failure, has been improved for better visualization
Concrete failure verifications and support for torsion in load input
In the Peikko Designer world there are currently interesting things in development regarding Peikko Designer® software, Peikko account and project management. You can expect something to be launched still this fall so stay tuned!