Most floor vibration checks are designed around people walking.

Machinery on a warehouse slab works differently.

A pump or fan runs for hours at a steady frequency, and checking it properly usually takes a time history analysis.

On many projects, that analysis happens outside the building model. The frame gets exported to a separate solver, the machine loads are set up there, and the run is done on its own.

When the equipment vendor sends a new weight or operating speed, or a beam size changes, the export and setup start over. The floor is also often checked one bay at a time, which leaves out how the rest of the building responds.

In this webinar, the midas technical team will build a multistory steel warehouse with a reinforced concrete slab on steel beams in a single midas GEN NX model. The time history analysis for the machinery runs in that same model, alongside:

• • Generating ASCE 7 load combinations
  • Designing the RC slab with the steel frame
  • Optimizing steel member sizes
  • Designing the foundations in midas Design+ using the frame reactions
  • Modeling and analyzing a tapered roof beam

The frame, slab, loads, and analysis stay in one model from start to finish, and the session closes with open Q&A.

• Engineers designing steel warehouses, industrial buildings, and equipment platforms
• Engineers who design concrete slabs on steel framing and currently run the slab and frame in separate models
• Engineers who need to check vibration from machinery and want to see time history analysis in a building model
• Engineers who carry frame reactions into foundation design and want both steps connected

• How to generate ASCE 7 loads and load combinations for a steel warehouse in midas GEN NX
• How to design a reinforced concrete slab in the same model as the steel frame that supports it
• How to optimize steel member sizes across the frame
• How to set up and run a time history analysis for vibration from machinery on an equipment platform
• How to carry frame reactions into foundation design with midas Design+
• How to model and analyze a tapered roof beam