Case Study: Beck Engineering achieves significant cost savings and faster modular tower construction with Altair S-FRAME and S-STEEL

Beck Engineering - Customer Case Study

Beck Engineering, a long-standing civil and structural design firm, was tasked with designing a 32-meter modular steel access tower for a remote reactor site where high on-site construction and erection costs and transport/load handling during lifting and transportation posed major challenges. To enable off-site fabrication, eliminate costly welding in the field, and ensure the tower could withstand lifting, transportation (including rapid decelerations and impacts) and in-service loads, Beck Engineering used Altair products — specifically Altair S-FRAME and Altair S-STEEL — for analysis and steel design.

Altair provided an integrated solution using S-FRAME and S-STEEL to run multiple linear and nonlinear analyses, manage numerous models, and deliver quick visual feedback for iterative steel member design. The Altair tools allowed Beck Engineering to confidently model transport and erection scenarios, reduce project construction costs through off-site modular fabrication, speed on-site erection, and ensure the modules’ stability, strength, and serviceability throughout the structure’s life.

Beck Engineering

Justin Nally

Project Engineer