Reinforced Concrete Beam Software

[DGpe]

Is there any reasonably priced software for designing continous concrete beams?

 

[RiBeneke]

To get the bending moments and shear forces, you could use most structural analysis software. See earlier discussions and faq's in this forum.
If you have equal beam spans, you can also get the coefficients from the older design handbooks.
To design your section properties, tension and shear steel, you could write a simple spreadsheet based on your code of practice.

 

[fleisher]

Good ones are STAAD, SAP. Not so good ones are Ram.

 

[blwjb]

If all you want to do is design continuous beams thensave your cash and dont buy things like STAAD, SAP etc. Have a look on the web, 2 links to follow are

http://www.seaoc.org/Pages/software.html

and

http://www.structural-engineering.fsnet.co.uk/free.htm