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 The Ultimate Solution for Tilt-up Panel Lifting Design

TiltMAX is a unique and easy to use software for designing and analyzing tilt-up panels. It provides a powerful tool to obtain safe and economical design for panel lifting.

It incorporates:

  • many years experience of panel lifting design practice,
  • the latest non smooth optimization research achievement;
  • the powerful finite element analysis technique;
  • the very latest window's technology;

The Technology
How can we be winners in such a booming industry? The answer is technology. TiltMAX is just the unique software providing the innovation technologies to let you to be a leader in the market. Why is TiltMAX:

  1. Free imagination, no limitation in design
    What customers require is the combination of economics, utility and attractive exterior. To meet growth, engineers should provide unlimited imagination to architects, allow them to create extremely attractive exterior. That means more and more complex shapes with irregular opening and detailing will come to reality. But it’s very hard for the lifting design engineers to analyze the complex panel with traditional beam model calculation. However, one of the TiltMAX’s great features, using FEA (Finite Element Analysis) to analyze complex panel, can let the design engineers get the most detail of the whole panel’s stress easily and fast.

    2. Because of the FEA technology, there is no limit to TiltMAX. Whatever architects design their buildings, TiltMAX can easily let them up.

  2. Safety
    Panel analysis is the key player during whole panel lifting process. The lifting inserts need to be put correctly so that the overhanging portions of panel sides/top will reduce the Bending Moments between pickup points, therefore reducing the compressive and tensile stress in the concrete. With FEA, TiltMAX can analyze panel’s detail enough to get precise results. Engineers know exactly whatever stress changing constantly during the tilting sequence instead of judging by so-call "experience" or even guessing. Using this new method, it can definitely avoid panel cracking due to error panel analysis, and therefore reduces the risk of liability.

  3. Economy
    Tilt-up has always had the lead as the most economical way of building. This advantage was primarily available on not only large buildings but also small buildings. Cost-effective is the most important reason why builders/contractors choose using tilt-up method. However, many panel-lifting designers have painful experience of playing around insert locations to reduce the Maximum Bending Moment. It could take you half a day, but the result is not the best one yet. Here comes the breakthrough technological innovation: by using optimization feature in TiltMAX, you can obtain the lowest Maximum Bending Moment just in seconds. Compared with traditional trial and error method, the optimization technology of TiltMAX can reduce 30% of bending moment and 50% of design time on average.

The main benefits are:

  • Engineering services typically range from $35-$40 per panel now. TiltMAX saves $15-$20 per panel in reduced analyzing time, fewer errors and rework, possibility to use fewer designers at much lower skilled pay levels.
  • Ability to design the complex shape panel lifting with a safety and economical solution, therefore reduce the insurance premium, gain a higher reputation in the area.
  • Save more than 30% of reinforcement: with optimization function, TiltMAX can reduce the Maximum Bending Moment stress, which means contractors can bid a project 30% cheaper than others can.