Cracking the CompWebPen code

About this episode

Maryam Hasanali discusses the development of the CompWebPen software tool for analyzing composite steel-concrete beams.

In this episode of Stirring the Pot, we’re having a kōrero with Maryam Hasanali. Maryam is a structural research engineer at HERA and the brain behind the scenes driving our newly launched software tool, CompWebPen. Join us as we dive into the thinking, coding, and collaboration that brought CompWebPen to life – a tool designed to simplify the analysis and design of composite steel–concrete beams with web penetrations. Maryam shares the real-world pain points this software solves for en...

People in this episode

Host: HERA

Guest: Maryam Hasanali

Topics covered

• software development
• structural engineering
• composite beams
• web penetrations
• design tools

Keywords

• CompWebPen
• structural research
• software tool
• engineering
• design
• composite steel-concrete beams

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HERA

Products: CompWebPen

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