toms-structures 0.0.39

A collection of scripts for structural engineering design

An unofficial python library companion to AS 3700:2018 Masonry Structures.

Installation

You can install toms-structures via pip from PyPI:

pip install toms-structures

Documentation

Documentation for toms-structures is currently under construction. The documentation can be found at https://toms-structures.readthedocs.io/.

Features

• Compression and bending capacity of unreinforced clay / concrete masonry
• Bending capacity of RC blocks

Why does this project exist?

Many structural engineers in Australia rely on a combination of industry software / excel spreadsheets / hand calculations. It is common for an excel spreadsheet to be passed around with variable amounts of documentation, little or no testing, and no verification that the spreadsheet was not broken at some point in the past. Efforts to fix these issues exist and there certainly are quality excel spreadsheets, but it is generally difficult to achieve and requires outsized organisational efforts to maintain. This project aims to replace some of those excel spreadsheets.

Project goals:

1. Provide extensive testing so that outputs are reliable.
2. Provide thorough documentation so that structural engineers without extensive software engineering training can clearly understand how calculations are performed, what the intended use cases are, what the limitations of the project are, and how they can raise issues/contribute.

Contributing

Support

Issue Tracker: https://github.com/Revelate123/structures/issues

Disclaimer

This library is intended for use by qualified structural engineers. It is the user's responsibility to confirm and accept the output.