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The only software for the design and specification of cellular beams in both fire and normal conditions.

FBEAM3® allows engineers to design FIREBEAM® - Fire-engineered composite fabricated beams with cellular or bespoke openings for up to 2 hours fire resistance. Compliant with SCI AD 269 & RT 983, with proven performance based on a two year SCI-managed composite, loaded fire test programme.

Fabsec® is a joint venture company with the support of four major shareholders. We offer highly efficient solutions for long span fabricated steel beams with cellular and bespoke web openings in the normal or fire condition. Through Severfield-Rowen plc and William Hare Ltd (licensed fabricators) with steel from Corus UK Ltd, Fabsec® has a manufacturing capacity in excess of 40,000 tonnes. Leigh's Paints (licensed coating supplier) provides Fabsec®with unrivalled intumescent coating and paint technology. This capability, plus our software development and engineering resources, delivers high quality and customer focus plus an innovative product range - now including FBEAM3® design software.

Hungry for more design features?

Fabsec®'s new, free FBEAM3® cellular beam design software has an array of exciting and innovative features that substantially improve beam design efficiency:

• Beam Wizard™ - unique optimiser for both the normal and fire condition
• New unique Microsoft® Windows® style toolbar for easy cell generation and editing
• End moments can be applied
• PC flooring units (solid and hollow)
• Network and PC or laptop installation
• Comprehensive User Manual
• New web post checks in fire replace former geometrical limits
• Edge beam overhang added
• Accelerating spin boxes added to many data entry fields
• Easier flange size selection
• Option to save output as PDF for Email attachment
• Includes Leigh's Paints Firetex Product Calculator™

Breakthrough design capability

FBEAM3® builds on the proven FBEAM2® capability (developed by The Steel Construction Institute) for the design of composite and non-composite primary and secondary floor beams and rafters. The unique fire design module was developed from a two-year SCI managed programme of loaded, coated composite tests at WFRC.

The first noticeable feature is the new interface - it's friendlier, familiar and much easier to use and navigate. IT Managers within structural engineering practices will also like the fact that FBEAM3® is fully networkable. Alternatively, FBEAM3® may be installed on a stand alone basis on a PC or laptop. Updates to FBEAM3® will be downloadable from the Fabsec® website. The main new features of FBEAM3® are the Beam Wizard™ optimiser and the new toolbar for cell generation and editing. Both of these will enhance beam design efficiency and save engineer's time. For example, Beam Wizard™ will, within specified dimensional limits, optimise the beam design through a comparative analysis of successive designs to return the least mass or lowest cost solution in seconds. It will also optimise and convert between symmetric and asymmetric designs as well as composite and non-composite solutions.

How fast do you want to optimise your cellular beam designs?

Fabsec®'s new, free FBEAM3® software now includes the unique Beam Wizard™ - a fast and highly efficient 'one-pass' optimiser for beam designs in the fire and normal conditions. Key benefits include:

• Removes the need for iteration and determines the optimum solution in seconds
• Optimises Fabsec® beams in the normal condition
• Optimises Firebeam® in the fire condition to SCI AD 269 and RT 983
• Beams can be cellular or with bespoke openings (circular, rectangular or obround)
• Automatically determines least mass or lowest cost solution
• Optimiser operates within user-specified dimensional limits
• Permits symmetric and asymmetric beams
• Permits composite and non-composite solutions

Beam Wizard™ removes the need for manual iteration and shortens the learning curve.

How flexible do you want your cell generator to be?

FBEAM3®'s new toolbar for cell generation and editing now makes an often complex and time-consuming task as simple as possible. The toolbar is versatile, flexible and sophisticated, but remarkably easy to use. For example, users can edit or select beam openings directly on the schematic, and change the shape, position or spacing in a few simple mouse clicks. Users can also save their design as a PDF for attachment to an email.

The unique 'Microsoft® Windows®' style toolbar for cell generation and editing has the following powerful and unrivalled functionality:

• Openings generator form for user to specify individual or multiple openings
• Automatic cellular beam generation
• Change selected opening shape to circular, rectangular or elongated
• Delete selected or all openings from the beam
• Select all openings
• Equally space or centre openings within the beam
• Make selected openings same as first selected opening
• Move selected openings
• Adjust opening parameters through the openings data table
• Edit/select any beam opening directly on the beam schematic (by right mouse click)

For free copies of FBEAM3® which includes Leigh's Paints Product Calculator Contact Fabsec® now or order direct from our website.

Patents pending - manufacture of beams by Fabsec® licensed fabricators only

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