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PiscesaCol 1.05
(One Part of My Final Project of My Bachelor Degree in ITS)

         PiscesaCol 1.05 is a program that similiar to PCACOL V3.00 and PCACOL V3.64, this program was part of my final project in ITS. I had developed this program in 2006 in about  one month approximately. Codes were used in this program is SNI 2847-2002 which is similiar with ACI 318-99 and ACI 318-02 for the Unified Design Profision. It's free anyway...^^ but not the source code... Heu3x Mr.Raka will kill me for that...^^

         This program was written using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, full of GUI and algorithm based on VB 6.00. Since the graphics in VB 6.0 was rather cumbersome using MSChart (It is different with .Net 2008) so third party graphics from Microsoft Excel 2003 was used. This third party Graphics was called Microsoft Office Web Components 11, therefore additional files need to be copied to the System32 folder under the Windows folder. Since VB 6.0 was used therefore it won't need DotNetFrameWork...^^, The minimum requirement of this program described below :

• Processor Pentium II 233 Mhz or eqivalent (XP), Processor Pentium III 600 Mhz or eqivalent (Vista). I'm not sure if it will work on Vista.

• 64 MB Ram (XP), 512 MB Ram (Vista). I'm not sure if it will work on Vista.

• 1 MB Harddisk Space.

• Microsoft Windows XP SP2 with Microsoft Office Web Components 11 installed or Microsoft Windows Vista with Microsoft Office Web Components 11 installed.

         As well said before this program is free with a feature matching with PCACOL V3.00 and PCACOL V3.64 without biaxial analysis. Table 1 will show comparison about PiscesaCol 1.05, ITS Column Analysis 2009, PCACOL 3.00, PCACOL 3.64, CSICOL 8.30. Hopefully in a few years we had already finish the road map...^^

Tabel 1. Comparison between Column Analysis Program

        From Table 1 above we know that the ability of PiscesaCol 1.05 could be used in designing the column building including the Slenderness Effect, of course it will be limited to rectangular and circular section so when it comes to  irregular columns or shear wall design PiscesaCol 1.05 cannot complete the task. But for free programs it offer more than enough isn't it ??? After finishing this program I'am planning to move it to .Net Platform that's why ITS Column 1.06 was shown up but it stop in the way and now the new generation of ITS Column Analysis has shown up and will be finished in about a few years, our target hopefully we can stand as higher as CSICOL 8.30...^^

         This program will be available shortly via 4Shared !!! (It's avalaible now >>>Link<<<), before installing this program a few things should be taken care of, these things described below :

• Microsoft Office Web Component 11 must be installed before installing PiscesaCol 1.05, the installation can be found in Microsoft Office 2003 Installation CD in the same folder of Setup... search for OWC 11 and then install it.

• Copy PiscesaCol 1.05 requirements from the folder "Requirements" (>>>Link<<<) and then copy it to folder c:\Windows\System32 if the specific file exist just skip it.

• Install PiscesaCol 1.05 and enjoy the free software...^^,if you find the specific file exist juss keep the original file or ignore the file, any bug or error will not be followed since the development of this program was stopped and moving to ITS Column Analysis 2009.

         A few overview of PiscesaCol 1.05 will be discussed in other section, tutorial and help is not available, considering the user has been familiar with PCACOL then it won't have a difficulty to operate PiscesaCol 1.05. What will be discussed is how to analyze and design rectangular and circular column using SNI 2847-2002, ACI 318-99, ACI 318-2002 and how to design column with slenderness effect, it can be followed from the link below :

• Analyzing rectangular short column with four side equal reinforcement direction (>>>Link<<<).

• Analyzing rectangular short column with two side equal along X-Axis direction (>>>Link<<<).

• Analyzing rectangular short column with two side equal along Y-Axis direction (>>>Link<<<).

• Analyzing rectangular short column with two side equal along X-Different (>>>Link<<<).

• Analyzing circular short column with bending direction in X-Axis (>>>Link<<<).

• Designing rectangular short column (>>>Link<<<).

• Designing circular short column (>>>Link<<<).

• Analyzing slenderness effect of rectangular column (>>>Link<<<).

• Analyzing slenderness effect of circular column (>>>Link<<<).

        Hopefully this program could be used in learning or designing regular concrete column without any charge. If you have an advice for the future programs please let me know... you can email me at bambangpcs(at)yahoo(dot)com or bambang(dot)piscesa(at)live(dot)com or piscesa(at)ce(dot)its(dot)ac(dot)id.

Regards,

Bambang Piscesa, ST. MT.