Tutorials: Slab Design

In these tutorials, you learn how to model, analyze, and design a concrete slab with an opening.

This set of tutorials guides you through the complete process of Slab design in approximately 115 minutes, but you can also work on each tutorial independently.

In these tutorials, you complete the following tasks:

1. Model a slab (set preferences, contour definition, properties definition, supports definition, mesh definition).
2. Load case definition (self-weight and surface loads such as: uniform planar load, uniform planar load on contour, and linear load).
3. Structure analysis and results (linear static analysis, display slab results on maps, and in tabular form).
4. Calculations of the Required (Theoretical) Reinforcement Area (set the calculation options, display the maps of required reinforcement area, display the map of deflection, display results of required reinforcement in tabular form).
5. Calculations of the Provided (Real) Reinforcement Area (set the calculation options, verify the deflection for the provided reinforcement, modify the provided reinforcement, verify the deflection of newly created reinforcement areas, display the final reinforcement and drawings).

Click here to start the first tutorial.

Topics in this Section

• Model a Slab. In this tutorial, you learn how to model a basic concrete slab with an opening.
• Define Loads. In this tutorial, you learn how to define and apply load cases to a slab.
• Run an Analysis and Explore Results. In this tutorial, you learn how to start the analysis process and how to display slab results of this analysis.
• Calculations of the Required (Theoretical) Reinforcement Area. In this tutorial, you learn how to calculate the required reinforcement area for the defined slab and how to display reinforcement maps.
• Calculations of the Provided (Real) Reinforcement Area. In this tutorial, you learn how to calculate the provided reinforcement area for the defined slab. Also, you learn how to modify the reinforcement area due to exceeding the deflection.