Roof

The feature allows the analysis and design of collar beam roofs with sway or non-sway collar beams. The collar beam can consist of one or two parts.

• Softwood
• Hardwood
• Glulam

• Both sides of the roof consist of straight continuous rafters having an inclination and the same cross-section over several spans without intermediate joints
• The roof pitch, the cross-sections and the span lengths can differ on the left and right side
• Different rafter spacing on the left and right side
• The cantilevers can have a different cross-section
• The projection over the ground plan of the house can deviate from the cantilever geometry
• The supports are sway in the horizontal and vertical direction or are restrained. The restraints can be defined as being rigid or elastic
• A collar beam with up to four spans can be defined

• Automatic generation of the loads from self-weight, snow, and wind
• Additional user-defined loads as uniformly distributed loads, concentrated loads or trapezoidal loads
• Man loads as well as wind uplift at projections
• Accidental snow load is optionally available
• Loads from photovoltaic arrays
• To reduce the computing time for more extensive systems, various settings are available for the grouping of load cases and load combinations

Optionally selectable:

• Verification of the wind suction resistance
• Seismic load combinations
• Hot design
• As a standard option, only positive deflections are verified on the cantilever (on short cantilevers, the negative deflection is often decisive in terms of calculation, but this is not always desired)

Effective length for buckling and lateral buckling separately for the cold and hot design:

• Default setting: calculation of the effective length for buckling from the eigenvalue solution of the plane system. Assumption of continuous lateral support with limitation of the maximum effective length for buckling in the rafter plane to 0.9 times the component length
• Alternatively, setting the effective length to the length of the member, the component or a default value

Base

• Connection with a notch or pole plate
• Connection with a straight or haunched cleat

Purlin support

• With birdsmouth joint
• With nailed cleat

Collar beam connections

• one- and two-part

• PDF
• Word
• Printer

• User-defined output with various setting options for tables and graphics
• Result graphics with internal forces, stresses, or displacements can be specifically transferred to the output document using the camera button
• Support reactions are optionally put out for each load case, each action or as min/max values, either for each rafter or per linear metre

• System transfer to other “Roof” programs
• System transfer to “Framework” program
• Transfer of support reactions to “Continuous Timber Beam” program
• Transfer of support reactions to “Continuous Steel Beam” program
• Transfer of support reactions to “Timber Column” program
• Direct interface to the CAD program SEMA

• DIN EN 1995
• ÖNORM EN 1995
• NTC EN 1995
• BS EN 1995
• PN EN 1995
• EN 1995