Distributed reinforcement

Once the Reinforcement Pattern dialog box is opened and the "Distributed reinforcement" tab is selected, the dialog box assumes the shape presented below.

This tab is divided into two parts. The first refers to wire fabric, the second to reinforcing bars. Depending on the selection of distributed reinforcement type on the General tab of the Distributed reinforcement field, only one type of distributed reinforcement is active in the Distributed reinforcement tab.

Wire Fabric Field

Reusability of off-cuts filters off-cuts left after cutting up wire fabric. This process discards the off-cuts that do not meet the minimum area or minimum size criteria. Remaining off-cuts are taken into account during calculations of the next deep beam in the list and may be used for reinforcing the deep beam.

Horizontal/vertical division of wire fabric selects the independent manners of horizontal and vertical cutting of (dividing) the wire fabric. The use of modular cutting of a mesh panel obtains a wire fabric shape that uses the entire panel area that reduces the cutting work that adjusts them to the designed deep beam.

Horizontal bars imposes rotation and reinforcement with wire fabric positioned horizontally (perpendicularly) to the deep beam span.

Selecting reinforcement diameter and imposing reinforcement spacing are features that are common to the Horizontal and vertical bars options. If no settings are defined, the optimum diameter and reinforcement spacing are adjusted.

For the lower zone of reinforcement, you can activate the Near-support insets option. The near-support reinforcement insets are used when the percentage of reinforcement in the lower zone is as follows:

Then, reinforcement defined by the formula is distributed over the entire span length. The remainder (in the form of near-support insets) will be distributed in the near-support zone to the distance of 0,3*lo from the support face.

For the upper zone reinforcement, you can correlate the reinforcement diameter and the diameter of reinforcement in the lower zone.

In vertical reinforcement of a deep beam whose section height is greater than its span, you can impose or resign from this type of reinforcement distribution in the zone above the height L. This is done using the Extend every second bar option.

Additionally, you can select the manner of shaping vertical bars in vertical reinforcement. The first three icons are used for basic vertical reinforcement. The remaining icons determine the shape of auxiliary reinforcement applied when the number of reinforcement columns is greater than 2.