Compos shakes up floor design
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Oasys are pleased to announce the release of Compos 8.0 their leading composite floor design software, which now allows you to ‘excite’ a floor for vibration checks and also ‘dampen’ the excitement using the 'Resotec damping system from Skanska's specialist decking company, Richard Lees Steel Decking.

Compos is the only software that can analyse the effects of using the Resotec Damping System.

What makes Compos so unique?

  • Footfall induced vibration checks - calculate the Response Factor
  • Analyse the effects of using the Resotec Damping System from Richard Lees Steel Decking
  • Tapering plate girders
  • Variable slab widths and thicknesses

Plus everything that you expect from a quality composite beam design program:

  • Analysis and design of composite steel beams, including automatic beam and stud selection
  • Web penetrations and notches, with or without stiffeners
  • Analyse and design to BS5950 ultimate and serviceability limit states, such as vibration frequency, deflection, beam weight and depth
  • Link beams together, so that secondary beams load primaries

Resotec is the new damping system for improving dynamic performance of floors in steel framed buildings. Innovative and highly effective, Resotec really puts floor vibration in its place. It sits cleverly between the steel beam and metal decking to dampen movement between them. Resotec is the result of long term research into the problem of vibrating floors, combined with intensive, high level development work by Richard Lees Steel Decking in partnership with Arup.


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