A new version of MaxQuake incorporating the 2009 IBC and 2010
CBC requirements
is available as of January 3, 2010.
Speed: MaxQuake enables you to quickly evaluate Wind
and Earthquake loads, and accurately determine 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, home builders, 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 all 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 or use the wall pier method or wall percentage method configurations
to determine the most efficient shear wall system 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 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,
Tie Downs, 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, based on the
options you select.
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
tabbed pages. This information can be printed just as it is seen on the screen
to provide a complete calculations and schedules in a simple twelve
page
document,
ready
to
submit for a building permit.
Codes: MaxQuake calculates earthquake and wind loads
according to your choice of the 2010 CBC or 2009
IBC
Building Codes.
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