A-Beam app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 2096 ratings )

Productivity Education
Developer: Sompop Pimsen

5.99 USD

Current version: 4.9.8, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 03 Jun 2010
App size: 23.93 Mb

Version 4.0 new features:
- Add new type of beams support (Spring Support)
- Calculation sheets by Stiffness Method
- Calculation sheets by Moment Distribution Method

A-Beam is an easy to use application but provide you the calculation for Reactions, Shears, Bending Moments and Deflections of the beams. From the very simple beam to the most complex of multi-span beams with any combination of loads applied.

The great part of A-Beam is you are not limited to the only predefined of the pattern of the beams with particular support and load condition, but in A-Beam you can create your own beam with any combination of span and load condition no matter how complex it is. And create a beam and input the support and load condition is easy due to the interaction of the user interface which will show you the beam diagram while editing the data.

Features:

•Saved and listed all the previous beams by showing each beams Free Body Diagram (F.B.D) on the main screen so user can select and access previous work easily.

•Multi spans: no limit of number of spans of the beams

•Load patterns: any combination of loads applied to each spans of the beam (currently 5 types of loads "Point, Uniform, Triangular-Right, Triangular-Left and Moment load" ).

•Results:
•Reaction at each support
•Shear Force Diagram (S.F.D.)
•Bending Moment Diagram (B.M.D.) (see Note1)
•Deflection
•Reading the result (shear, bending moment and deflection) all along the beam length by tap & move the tracing line along the beam.

Pros and cons of A-Beam app for iPhone and iPad

A-Beam app good for

Great software. Everything we need to calculate a beam, with a beautiful interface. I am awaiting a slab software from the author.

Since the start of my engineering degree till the very end this developer didnt stop to improve his app. I wrote him several emails and he answered them all implementing all those beautiful improvements. I just wanna say thanks for such a passionate job. I wish I could give you 6 stars. Thank you very much Mr. Anan Ratana.

Easy to use and flexible. There is no limit to the configuration of the beam layout and load layout. The results are very well displayed for any position on the beam. The output report can be sent in PDF format by email. The best from the few apps of the same kind I have.

Can adjust the E of beam, love that theres actually SI units, including Newtons! One thing the creators could add is rollers.

I am in love with this program. Easy inputs, fantastic output. The pdf report is very well done. For 2d analysis including statically indeterminate beams this works better than Robot Analysis. Very impressed. Should be 50$ in my opinion.

Faster than using a stuctural analysis software on my computer. The pdf output is useful.

Some bad moments

Developer: The shear and moment in the latest update is not correct. Please fix. Customers: Please do not use this app until the developer fix the problem. Some of the results are wrong.

I figured since I am a structural engineer this app might be fun to play with however it continuously crashes and never produces any results.

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