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):
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.
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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.