A radical change in the design process

Geometry Wizard
3D Geometry of tower/girder can now be created in minutes

Pattern Library
Thousands of patterns readily available for multiple optimization studies

Automatic Drawings and Reports generator

Can help you do away with a drafting team and secretarial help

Automatic loads generator

Calculates and applies wind loads and wire loads automatically

Automatic effective lengths

A relief from the laborious inputs for the designer

Optimization engine
Optimization across various patterns, basic dimensions, weight, type, shape and cost of steel

Expedite project implementation

Prevents Prototype failure

Being used by Global Leaders in the industry

A Powerful tool for Electric Utilities

iSWITCHYARD is developed by a team of dedicated Structural Engineers with Tower Design experience and extensively validated in a live and practical design environment
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Optimization while ensuring safety Avoid failures of Proto - Testing iSWITCHYARD is an advanced engineering tool, conceived to assist engineers in performing analysis, design and optimization studies of switchyard structures. iSWITCHYARD is designed to accommodate switchyard structures of any configuration, with multi-level girders and towers. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the package renders the program efficient and very user-friendly. The user can build the switchyard structures graphically and visualize the results directly for the complete yard. iSWITCHYARD performs space truss analysis and design for normal and short circuit loads. Options are available to optimize each component of the switchyard assembly, say, a girder or a tower. iSWITCHYARD offers an intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI) to enter or modify input for the switchyard structure, performs module execution, facilitates viewing of results. It also offers a variety of text and graphical reports, including single line drawings of the component towers and girders. Color coding of single line diagram for member classifications, displacements is also supported. iSWITCHYARD is extremely powerful in performing whatif studies with its project-oriented database structure. iSWITCHYARD allows creation and management of several project alternatives, all related to the same yard. Each project alternative consists of a set of modifications to the strategic input parameters like base width, tower height, steel types, section shapes etc., which alter the cost/weight of the structures. An alternative design can be used to update the switchyard network.

Design Checking Upgradation & Maintenance of Switchyard Structures

Intuitive Graphical User Interface

Project Specifications Tower/Girder Template Interactive Design Calculator Model verification - cross sections, elevations & plans Deflected shapes & stress diagrams

Business Advantages
iSWITCHYARD software will save your business significant amounts of time and money. Why? Because iSWITCHYARD covers the full spectrum of switchyard design. It is: Fast Flexible Comprehensive

This means, for the first time, you can have the luxury of creating a final complete switchyard design. As a result, you incur less risk and can gain an edge on the competition. With iSWITCHYARD software, multiple design alternatives are a matter of a few key strokes not hours of re-doing. You sharply reduce design cycle time and produce an optimal design saving time and money. In addition, at all stages of design, bills of materials, comprehensive reports and design drawings are automatically generated saving time, which saves money. iSWITCHYARD provides your structural engineers with a full library of tower/girder patterns for automatic, fast and easy generation of switchyard geometry. And it does so accurately saving more time and eliminating costly redos. Electric Utilities have found iSWITCHYARD especially effective to: Standardize the design of their switchyard structures Check switchyard contractors submissions to ensure the most cost-effective design Check the towers/girders for Upgradation and Maintenance in order to study their effectiveness to work under different mechanical and environmental conditions Upgrade to higher wind pressure Replacement of missing / corroded sections Design checking for change of code of practice

High Specificity & High Sensitivity

iSWITCHYARD is specific to Switchyard Engineering. It is a tool that helps you with precise understanding of structural behavior of the Switchyard for every sensitive change in design parameters.

High Productivity
iSWITCHYARD, with its unique features of design and optimization is like adding a team of expert designers to the design staff. Over-night!

Versatality
Open-ended and code independent. Fully adaptable to changes in design codes.

Total Respect to fundamentals

3 dimensional geometry including redundants Sub-structuring Technique Member classification Analysis and design of multiple load combinations

IMIs dedication to research and development has established it as a global leader for Transmission Line Towers and Microwave Towers in developing software programs
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Tower Specifications

This option enables the user to specify all the input specifications at a single location. All the codal provisions pertaining to various international standards are built-in in a library and user can just click the appropriate standard / code of practice and the corresponding provisions are automatically passed on to the current Tower/Girder in the Switchyard.

Project details Conductor & Groundwire Standard for design Standard for material (member, bolts) Angle sizes Design requirements

iSWITCHYARD contains open-ended database of angle sizes, steel & bolt properties, conductor & groundwire properties. User can modify the existing data OR add their own data to these database and update the database as required using this interface.
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Powerful and Intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Extensive on-line graphic support gives clear visual appreciation of tower design throughout the design process. The user friendly environment facilities the user to interact efficiently to supply input parameters, to execute the software and to view various reports / drawings. Graphical Input Generator Interactive Graphics Interactive Design Design Calculator Display 3 dimensional Model verification Cross sections, Elevations, Plans Deflected shapes Stress diagram Viewing with Zoom, Pan, Rotate

Database and Libraries

i S W I T C H YA R D makes continuous

references to flexible database. Powerful library of patterns in general use aids quick and error-free generation of tower g e o m e t r y. U s e r c a n e a s i l y a d d n e w patterns to the library. iSWITCHYARD provides a comprehensive database of internationally available steel sections. Assembled sections are automatically derived from basic sections. User can easily update and expand the database. Database of various international design standards for Steel and bolt properties Conductor /Ground wire properties Design specifications Section database (Angle sizes) Pattern library

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All Powerful Model Generator

Yard Assembly iSWITCHYARD makes use of the component modeling and assembly technology to assemble any complex switchyard geometry easily. Component modeling technology involves generation of a typical tower or girder of a switchyard as individual components, making use of tools l ike pattern library. These tested geometrical blocks are assembled together by specifying the translation/rotation with respect to the yard coordinates.

Automatic Loads Generator

Body wind loads are calculated automatically for each tower and girder component in both transverse and longitudinal directions. Conductor and ground wire strung and unstrung loads for normal and short circuit tensions are calculated automatically. User defined additional loads can be input by defining a specific tower or girder node. Automatic Loads Generator Body wind loads Conductor & Groundwire loads Wind loads Self weight Broken wire loads User defined loads

Analysis Engine
Comprehensive analysis is carried out by Finite Element Method, idealizing the tower as a 3-D space truss. Analysis is done for all loading conditions. Space truss analysis is carried out for each elementary loading condition. Critical member forces, displacements and foundation forces are worked out. Stiffness formulation and assembly Auto-stabilization of the tower model Load combinations Hypothesis

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Design Engine

Member design is automatically performed for the critical force out of various load combinations and various tower combinations, in line with various international design standards. Effective lengths, which are required for member design, are automatically calculated by the software, thus reducing enormous time needed for input data. Moreover interactive design calculator facilitates the user to view the design results, instantaneously, for any modification of input parameters. Tower/ Girder Design Design as per various national & international standards Euro code AISC ASCE BS:5950 Egypt Interactive Design calculator Automatic effective lengths for member design.

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Optimization Engine

Optimization is the underlying theme of all the iSWITCHYARD modules. iSWITCHYARD performs optimization across all the possible alternatives duly considering various cost factors. Optimum member size selection Optimization across various steel grades (MS/HT/SHT) Optimization across various section shapes Equal & Unequal angles : Single, double back to back, double channel, double star, quadruple star, quadruple box Pipes Optimization across various patterns Optimization across various tower dimensions Base width, hamper width, top width Panel heights Various cost factors Material procurement cost factor Shape cost factor Steel grade cost factor

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Automatic Reports Generator

Extensive reports are generated, automatically, as a logical result of the design process itself. No secretarial help is required to generate reports. iSWITCHYARD also has facilities to generate design reports in various formats. Load calculations Member design calculations (Group wise / Member wise)

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Member forces (Group wise/ Member wise) Nodal displacements Foundation forces (Transformed / Vertical) Various report formats

Automatic Drafting Engine

Unlike the conventional software approach of using computers as drafting machines, iSWITCHYARD provides for automatic extraction of drawings as a logical consequence of the design process. Design drawings are generated in ready-to-submit format including dimensions, member group names, joint numbers etc. User can also export drawings into AutoCAD format, if need be.

Automatic Generation of the following Drawings Single line diagrams with all design details, elevations, plans and cross sectional views Dimensioning Member group names Joint numbers Body wind load diagram

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Training
iSWITCHYARD is highly intuitive and any designer with basic understanding of Switchyard Design process can quickly learn with the help of user manual and tutorial, delivered along with the software.

System Requirements
iSWITCHYARD runs on Pentium II or above with 64 MB RAM and 4 GB HDD under NT Server/ NT Workstation/ Windows 2000.

Partial list of installations

iSWITCHYARD is being used by global leaders in Transmission line field including biggest utilities. few customers of iSWITCHYARD are Central Electricity Authority, New Delhi, India. EUCOMSA, Sevilla, Spain. (ABENGOA group company) COMEMSA, Mexico. (ABENGOA group company)

i SWITCHYARD - More Information

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