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There isn't a lot of good info for Pre-tension recommendations on Stack Anchor bolts.   In the case of slip-critical connections, you are transferri...

MecaStack provides a couple of different parameters with regard to guy wires lengths.  Here is a typical output: In this output there is a column &...

MecaStack has two methods by which to analyze breach openings (Cutouts) in stacks.   1) Troitsky Method This is the more conservative approach and t...

As you are modeling the geometry of a stack, a 3D model of the stack is being generated as a byproduct of those inputs.    The primary purpose of t...

There is a field in MecaStack where the user can specify the spacing of anchor bolts.  The reason for this field is that there was an excerpt out of the pub...

If you need to access an old version of the software, there is a way to do that.  We don't have every old version saved, but you should be able to get w...

We have tried to compile many of the common materials used in steel stack construction, but it's difficult to have them all. In Steel stack design we ha...

The MecaStack calculations for a baseplate are based upon the following publication, which assumes a donut with the hole cut out in the middle.   What i...

MecaStack does not consider ice on guy wires.  There are two issues the weight and wind area.  You could take the additional ice weight into account by arti...

We had a major version change occur at v5295 of MecaStack, after that version the input file structure changed.  If you are trying to load an input file tha...