Supported engineering workflows

EngDatabase AI is designed for the recurring tasks that show up in working engineering jobs. Below is a list of the workflows the assistant and the calculator suite handle directly, grouped by the kind of answer you are looking for.

Sizing

• Pipe sizing for liquid and gas service.
• Pump sizing, including hydraulic and brake horsepower.
• Fan and blower sizing.
• Heat exchanger sizing (shell and tube, plate and frame).
• Motor sizing and starter selection.
• Conductor sizing and voltage drop.
• Conduit fill.
• Steel beam and column sizing.
• Concrete beam and column sizing.
• Wood beam and joist sizing.

Checking

• Steel member capacity checks.
• Concrete flexural and shear checks.
• Anchor bolt checks.
• Voltage drop verification.
• Pump NPSH checks.
• Pressure drop and Reynolds number checks.
• Breaker and overcurrent coordination checks.

Lookups

• Standard pipe dimensions across every schedule and material.
• Structural shapes (W, S, HP, C, L, HSS, round HSS).
• Material properties for steel, concrete, wood, and common fluids.
• Allowable stresses by code and temperature.
• Wire and cable data, including ampacity.
• Standard bolt and rebar sizes.
• Motor full load currents and standard horsepower ratings.
• Unit conversions across the engineering unit system.
• Standard atmospheric and fluid property tables.

Chained workflows

The assistant can put any of the above into a single conversation. A typical chain looks like this:

1. Look up a standard pipe size for a given flow rate.
2. Size a pump for the head loss and flow it will carry.
3. Check NPSH against the supplied suction conditions.
4. List a motor and feeder that match the pump brake horsepower.
5. Check voltage drop on the feeder at the run length.

Each step uses real reference data and the deterministic calculator suite. You see the sources and inputs inline.

Design discussion and narrative work

The assistant is backed by a frontier language model, so it also handles the open ended side of engineering work. You can talk through a design concept, weigh alternatives, draft a specification section, explain a code provision in plain English, or write up the summary paragraphs of a calculation package. These are normal uses of the assistant, and they can happen in the same conversation as the numerical work. You do not have to switch tools to switch modes.

What falls outside these workflows

The product does not run computational fluid dynamics, full finite element analysis, or other simulation software. It does not produce stamped drawings or take responsibility for sign off on a design. Those stay with your usual tools and your usual review process.

Where to start

Open the AI assistant and try the chain above, or go directly to the calculators page and pick the tool you need.