Reports, drawings, screens, and engineering deliverables.
MkaPEB helps engineers move from model definition to traceable calculations, visual checks, cost-sensitive decisions, concept sketches, calculation reports, and technical drawings.
User Interfaces
Steel frame element design results
MkaPEB presents steel member design results through clear and accessible interface views, allowing engineers to review member status, utilization levels, and design outcomes efficiently. Quick access to design results helps reduce review time and supports faster engineering decisions during model development and optimization.
Structural analysis results
MkaPEB allows engineers to review structural behavior through displacement diagrams, axial-force diagrams, shear-force diagrams, bending-moment diagrams, and support-reaction outputs. These visual checks help confirm that supports, member end releases, connectivity assumptions, and load-transfer behavior are defined correctly before proceeding to detailed design.
Loads acting on structure
Experienced engineers need to verify not only the final design result, but also how loads are generated, distributed, and transferred through the structural model. In MkaPEB, applied loads can be reviewed through the load path from cladding or shell areas to secondary members and then to the primary structural frame, helping users check whether wind, snow, roof, equipment, and other project loads are assigned consistently.
Detailed Design Reports
Traceable design reports with code references, formula-based calculations, substituted values, and organized report outputs for engineering review and documentation.
Detailed Member Design Reports
Many structural design programs present results mainly in tabular form, while separate verification examples are used to demonstrate calculation accuracy. Although such examples are useful, they do not always show the full calculation logic behind each project-specific design check.
MkaPEB follows a more transparent reporting approach. Detailed member design reports present the relevant code references, formulas, substituted values, intermediate steps, and final check results in an organized format. This allows engineers to review the basis of the design decision more clearly and use the report as both a calculation output and a project-specific verification reference.
EN-1993-1-1: 2005
Design of steel structures - Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings
AISC-360-16
Specification for Structural Steel Buildings
IS-800:2007
General Construction In Steel - Code of Practice
Overhead Crane Design Reports
Overhead cranes are frequently used in industrial and hangar-type steel buildings, and their wheel reactions can have a significant effect on the structural design. MkaPEB can calculate crane wheel reactions according to AISC Design Guide 7 or EN 1991-3, while also allowing manufacturer-provided crane data to be considered when available.
The crane runway beam is part of the main structural system and must be evaluated as an engineering component of the building. Its design should be coordinated with the structural model, support conditions, wheel loads, serviceability limits, and applicable design-code requirements.
Detailed crane runway beam design reports prepared by MkaPEB are provided below.
AISC Design Guide 7
Crane runway beam design report prepared according to the AISC Design Guide 7 workflow.
EN-1991-3
Specifies imposed loads (models and representative values) associated with cranes on runway beams and stationary machines
Cost Analysis
Cost-related outputs that help engineers compare design alternatives using material quantities, fabrication effort, and project-specific assumptions.
Importance of Cost Analysis
One of the first questions in many building projects is the approximate cost of the structure. A fast, reliable, and economical answer can strongly influence whether a proposal is competitive. To support this process, engineers need to compare multiple design alternatives and understand how each option affects material quantity, fabrication effort, and overall project cost.
MkaPEB helps engineers evaluate alternatives more efficiently by combining modeling, loading, analysis, design checks, and quantity-based comparison within the design workflow. The faster a structure can be modeled, loaded, checked, and revised, the more alternatives can be studied before a final proposal is submitted.
In steel construction, cost is not governed only by total steel weight. Fabrication operations such as cutting, drilling, welding, assembly, surface preparation, painting, quality control, and site erection also affect the final cost. For example, a portal frame designed with rolled sections may use more steel but require less welding, while a fabricated tapered frame may reduce steel weight but require more fabrication effort. Presenting these alternatives clearly helps engineers and clients make better-informed decisions.
Cost analysis window
The cost analysis example shown below is based on a representative single-storey steel building model with the following project parameters:
- 9 × 27 m = 243 m total portal-frame length
- Column height = 8.5 m
- Roof loads: 0.85 kN/m² snow, 0.21 kN/m² ice, 0.15 kN/m² solar panel load, 0.10 kN/m² roof sheeting, 0.05 kN/m² equipment load; total = 1.36 kN/m²
- Wind speed = 28 m/s
- Building width = 14 × 7 m = 98 m
- Total area = 23,800 m²
Concept Design Sketches
Concept-level sketches that support early-stage design comparison, project discussion, and client communication.
Concept Design Sketches
Concept design sketches help engineers and clients compare structural alternatives before the project moves into detailed design. MkaPEB can present early-stage drawings, layouts, and visual design concepts in a format that supports technical discussion, option comparison, and decision-making during the preliminary design phase.
Calculation Reports
Calculation report outputs prepared to make engineering assumptions, design principles, applied loads, checks, and documentation traceable.
Calculation Report Content
At the beginning of a project calculation report, the main design principles should be clearly presented. This section helps define the basis of design and provides the technical context required for engineering review, approval, and documentation.
- Sketches explaining the structural system
- Standards, regulations, and reference documents used in the design
- Load information, including dead loads, live loads, roof loads, equipment loads, temperature effects, snow loads, wind loads, soil pressures, and other project-specific loads
- Earthquake parameters used for seismic design
- Applied design method and related load-combination coefficients
- Material strengths, bolt classes, and weld-metal strength information
- Soil parameters considered in foundation design
The project calculation report should also include structural analysis results, member design checks, stability checks, connection and attachment details, and related calculations in a clear, organized, and traceable format.
Technical Drawings
Technical drawing outputs generated from the 3D model, including plans, elevations, bracing views, and foundation-related drawings for engineering coordination and documentation.
2D Drawing of the 3D Model
Footing Plan
Column Plan
Roof Plan
Side View - X Bracing
Side View - N Bracing
Side View - Portal Bracing
Turn engineering work into clear deliverables.
Use MkaPEB outputs to support design review, client communication, reporting, cost comparison, and technical documentation.