Being worked on now

[Tony Bryer]

Work is now in hand on several significant enhancements to SuperBeam. These are expected to be as follows: Handling of beams extended as cantilevers at both ends, not just beyond R2 (already in ProSteel 5.33) The ability to add an additional load at each steel beam bearing - use e.g. where two beams share the same bearing Support for glulam beam design and checking Updated flitch beam calculations as per latest TRADA methodology [possible] Timber beam bearing design (as for steel beams)


As ever, this is not to be taken as a firm promise that all these will be in the next shipping version, and as to time, it will ship when ready.

[Tony Bryer]

To add to the last, the current plan wrt Glulam beams is to allow the following options:
Member width: user-entered or pickable from a drop-down list, 65mm, 90mm, 115mm etc Grade: C16 or C24 (will usually be the latter) Number of laminations Lamination thickness


The timber calculation is as in current versions with the addition of the relevant K values.

If you see any problems with this please shout now.

[Tony Bryer]

SuperBeam 4.53 is now nearly finished. To see what's coming check out our web page http://www.superbeam.co.uk/sb453.htm . Hopefully it will be released in mid-April, but this is not a promise!