Most floor slabs are designed for people walking on them.
Machinery on an RC slab works differently.
A machine runs for hours at a consistent or variable frequency, and a time history analysis shows how the slab responds to it over time.
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 industrial building 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:
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- Generating ASCE 7 load combinations
- Designing the RC slab with the steel frame
- Optimizing steel member sizes
- Designing the foundations in midas Design+
- 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.
