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Ground Grid Systems
Ground Grid Systems
Safety Flexibility Protection
The Ground Grid systems module enables engineers to quickly and accurately design and analyze ground protection. Flexible design methodologies allow for quick auto-designed layouts or very detailed schemes. Color-coded graphical plots provide impressive results.
Uniform Grid
IEEE 80
IEEE 665
Rod & Conductor Optimization
Finite Element Analysis
Rods & Conductors in any 3-D Direction
Handle irregular configurations of any shape
Rod & Conductor Optimization
Ground Grid Systems Software Capabilities
Two-layer soil configuration plus surface material
Table of potentials at the earth surface
External boundary extensions
Variable weight & temperature options
Compare allowable currents against fault currents
User-expandable conductor library
Ground grid configurations showing conductor & rod plots
Compare potentials to tolerable limits
Step, touch, & absolute potentials inside & outside grid
Plotting & Reporting
3-D touch and step potential plots
3-D absolute voltage plots
Color coded contour plots
Graphical display of overlimit voltages
Conductor segments oriented in any 3-D direction
Output results in Microsoft Access databases format
Use Crystal Reports® for full color, customizable reports
Export output reports to your favorite word processor
Rotation animation
Rotation increment (-15 to 15 degrees)
Rotation detail – wire frame/plotting style/full detail
Viewing style – color/monochrome
Shading style – white/color
Font size – small/medium/large
Numeric precision – 0, 1, 2, 3 decimals
Grid lines – no grid, X and/or Y axes
Plotting method – wire frame/surface/surface with frame/surface with contouring/pixels
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