Diagrams - RC Beams/Continuous Footings

The "Diagrams" option allows presenting the design process results of an RC beam or continuous footing. It is available by:

• selecting the Results > Diagrams command from the menu
• selecting the Window Add View > Beams > Beam - Diagrams from the menu.

Six tabs are located in the upper part of the dialog box (the tab description is provided for RC beams):

Diagrams

ULS

SLS

ALS

Reinforcements

Deformations.

Deformations (for the codes BAEL 91 and BAEL 91 mod. 99) or Deflections (for the codes ACI 318 and ACI 318 metric as well as EC2 - Belgium NAD, BS8110, PN-84/B-03264, PN-B-03264 (2002)).

The following tabs may be additionally available:

• for RC beams and continuous footings: Simple cases
• for continuous footings:
  • Soil (stresses in the soil, settlement, difference of settlements)
  • Stability (uplift, contact surface).

In the case of continuous footings, verification of longitudinal shear and cracking of a continuous footing is provided on the Deflection tab.

See also:

General principles of design of spread and continuous footings (taking account of the requirements of available codes)

Selection of the above mentioned tabs allows the user to change the contents of the Diagrams dialog box and display the appropriate design results.

A characteristic property of the Diagrams option is the automatic activation of beam/continuous footing calculations in the case of selecting the Results layout if current beam calculations are not available.

If a new Beam - diagrams tab is activated, the screen will be divided into two parts:

• a Results dialog used to select the displayed parameters and containing the result tables,
• a viewer, in which the diagrams of the selected values are presented; the results which will be presented in the shape of diagrams are selected in the Diagrams dialog.