Beam Calculator. vs VerCivil
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beam Calculator.
This structural engineering app simplifies beam calculations for professionals and students. It quickly analyzes various beam types under different loads, providing essential data like reactions, moments, and deflections. Get reliable results for design, learning, or fieldwork.
- Calculate reactions, bending moments, shear forces, and deflections
- Support point loads, UDL, and combinations
- Analyze simply supported, cantilever, and fixed-end beams
- View reaction forces, shear and moment diagrams
- Input beam length, material properties, and load details
- Fast calculations and easy result interpretation
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Beam Calculator is a powerful structural engineering tool designed to help engineers, architects, students, and construction professionals perform essential beam calculations quickly and accurately. With intuitive inputs and clear results, the app simplifies structural analysis for beams under various loads and supports. Whether you’re analyzing simple supports, overhangs, distributed loads, or point loads, Beam Calculator gives you reliable results in seconds—perfect for design, classroom learning, or fieldwork. Key Features: • Calculate reactions, bending moments, shear forces, and deflections for beam structures • Support point loads, uniform distributed loads (UDL), and combinations. • Analyze simply supported, cantilever, and fixed-end beams. • View reaction forces, shear and moment diagrams, and key values. • Enter beam length, material properties, load magnitudes, and positions. • Designed for fast calculations and easy interpretation of results. Beam Calculator is ideal for civil and structural engineers, design professionals, construction teams, and students seeking a reliable mobile solution for beam analysis. in-app purchase included Lifetime to Remove Ads Privacy Policy : https://semiconhub.in/manager/privacy.html Terms and Condition : https://semiconhub.in/manager/tcondition.html
VerCivil
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Offline structural engineering platform: organize project members, run code-aware designs, and export a submission-grade PDF with cover, member index, material schedule, and engineer credentials. PROJECT WORKFLOW • Create projects with job number, address, engineer profile (name, license, organization) • Add members across slabs, beams, columns, foundations, walls, and steel connections • Status badges per member: pass, fail, or pending • Recompute project: refresh members in dependency order, propagating slab loads to supporting beams • Submission-grade PDF: cover, member index, per-member calculation, material schedule, code references appendix REINFORCED CONCRETE DESIGN • Slab: One-way and two-way RC slab with deflection and crack width checks • Beam: Flexural and shear design with stirrup zone schedule (close-mid-close per ACI §22.5) • Column: Axial and biaxial bending with Bresler Load Contour and P-M interaction • Foundation: Isolated footing with punching shear, bearing pressure distribution, and optional settlement check (elastic plus consolidation) STEEL DESIGN • Steel Column: AISC 360-22 plus Eurocode 3 plus IS 800:2007, with class-aware flexure (compact, non-compact, slender) • Section catalog: AISC W-shapes, Eurocode IPE / HEA / HEB, IS 800 ISMB, plus JIS H and BS UB / UC • Steel Connection: bolted (A325 / A490, EC3 8.8 / 10.9, IS800 4.6 / 8.8) plus fillet / CJP / PJP welds RETAINING WALL • Gravity and cantilever wall types • Rankine, Coulomb, and Caquot-Kerisel earth pressure theories • Mononobe-Okabe seismic earth pressure analysis • Overturning, sliding, and bearing stability checks • Surcharge, backfill slope, and drainage conditions SEISMIC ANALYSIS • ASCE 7-16 / DPT 1302 / Eurocode 8 / IS 1893:2016 Part 1 • Equivalent lateral force procedure • Story force distribution with base shear WIND LOAD • ASCE 7-16 directional procedure • Eurocode 1 peak velocity pressure • DPT 1311 with database for Thai provinces • Windward, leeward, and sidewall pressures plus topographic factors SECTION PROPERTIES • Rectangle, circle, I-section, T-section, L-angle, C-channel, hollow rectangle • Area, centroid, second moments, principal axes, section moduli • Torsion constant, warping constant, plastic moduli, shape factor HYDRAULIC DESIGN • Darcy-Weisbach, Hazen-Williams, and Manning equations • Water supply and drainage modes • Pipe sizing with Reynolds number and friction analysis • Optional pump sizing with TDH and NPSHa LIGHTING DESIGN • Lumen method per ISO 8995 guidelines • Room presets (office, corridor, warehouse, drawing room) • Fixture layout grid, uniformity ratio, power density • Coefficient of utilization and light loss factor STEEL BEAM — LRFD PRECAST/TOPPING — two-stage checks FOUNDATIONS — combined footing, pile cap, single-pile capacity SHEAR WALL — RC checks BASE PLATE — bearing/shear EVERY MEMBER INCLUDES • Interactive 2D engineering diagrams with labeled values • Pass / Fail status for every design check • Material quantity estimates (concrete, rebar, steel) • Save to project or quick history for later restore DESIGN STANDARDS Concrete: ACI 318-19, Eurocode 2 (EN 1992-1-1), IS 456:2000, EIT 1008-38 (Thailand) Steel: AISC 360-22, Eurocode 3 (EN 1993-1-1 plus EN 1993-1-8), IS 800:2007 Foundations/geotechnical: total/effective pile capacity Seismic: ASCE 7-16, Eurocode 8 (EN 1998-1), IS 1893:2016, DPT 1302 Wind: ASCE 7-16, Eurocode 1 (EN 1991-1-4), DPT 1311 Load combinations: ASCE 7-16 / IBC 2018 §1605.2, EN 1990 6.10a/6.10b, IS 456:2000 Table 18, Thai Ministerial Regulation B.E. 2566 Cl.7 Lighting: ISO 8995 Pay once at $19.99. No subscription, IAP, or ads. Disclaimer: For reference only. All calculations should be verified by a licensed professional engineer before use in any project. VerCivil is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by ACI, AISC, CEN (Eurocode), BIS, ASCE, ISO, or the Thai DPT. Design codes are cited only as the published standards the calculators implement.
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The clearest difference is price: Beam Calculator. at Free against VerCivil's $19.99. Beam Calculator. also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). VerCivil's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Beam Calculator. is free to download; VerCivil costs $19.99 up front. Beam Calculator. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. VerCivil asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Beam Calculator. | VerCivil |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sachinbhai Surani | Jittapol Prukpatarakul |
In-app purchases
Beam Calculator.
- Lifetime premium$9.99
VerCivil
No in-app purchases
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