A new version of MaxQuake incorporating requirements of 2007 CBC been added on 01 January 2008.
Speed: MaxQuake enables you to quickly evaluate Wind and Earthquake loads, and accurately determine all the constuction requirements for a safe building design.
Light Frame Buildings: MaxQuake is specifically designed for light frame buildings less than 60 feet tall (three stories or less), such as homes, apartments and small comercial buildings.
Users: MaxQuake is for architects, builders, engineers, and plan checkers.
Calculates Construction Requirements: MaxQuake allows easy entry and organization of building data. Once building data is entered, MaxQuake automatically determines every shear wall, hold-down, roof tie-down, diaphragm, and collector requirements.
Compare Designs: MaxQuake allows easy evaluation and comparison of preliminary plan configuations for new buildings and different building sytems. You can quickly test separate shear walls and pre-manufactured unit frames using the wall pier method or wall percentage method configurations to determine the most efficient arrangement for your project.
Automatic Reference: MaxQuake looks up, from built-in libraries, the shear capacities of many typical shear wall materials; Simpson Wall, Hardy Frame, Trus Joist Wall and Z-Wall pre-manufactured unit frames. MaxQuake also looks up many fastener sizes, types and capacities for framing hardware including "Simpson" hold-downs, straps and anchors. All these libraries can be customized and saved, or new libraries added.
Schedules: MaxQuake creates Shear Wall, Hold-Down, Up-Lift, Unit Frame, Diaphram and Collector/Tie Shcedules based on your choice of any combination material options you select. Appropriate notes required for working drawings are then automatically included on each schedule.
Documentation: In a user-friendly interface, MaxQuake is organized in logical steps so that all formulas, code references, and the results of each stage of the calculations are displayed together on separate tabs and pages. This information can be printed just as it is seen on the screen to provide a complete calculations in a simple twelve page document, ready to submit for a building permit.
Codes: MaxQuake calculates earthquake and wind forces by your choice of the methods defined by the 1996 BOCA, 1997 SBCCI, and 1994 or 1997 UBC, 2001 CBC, and 2003 IBC Building Codes.
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