Consideration of Drop Caps and Drop Panels for Punching Shear Design
ADAPT-Builder v22 now includes the ability to model a Drop Cap and a Drop Panel at the same support. The Punching Shear check considers both...
ADAPT-Builder includes a Support Line Span Optimizer that allows the user to optimize tendons within a support line span based on stress, pre-compression, and balanced loading percentages. The Support Line Span Optimizer will optimize tendons based on the FEM results from the envelope of service combinations analyzed. This tool gives users more detailed information about the tendon optimization occurring within ADAPT-Builder and allows for an efficient design in reference to both time and material.
When using the Support Line Span Optimizer, the initial combination is not included in the optimization as the program will add reinforcement per code when tension stresses are exceeded for the initial combination. Once the tendons have been optimized the user has the choice to Update the Service Solution to see what effect the change has on the FEM analysis and design, or continue to optimize tendons in other support line spans whose tendons have not been modified by the optimizer.
To learn more about how efficient tendon design can be using ADAPT-Builder and the Support Line Span Optimizer, check out the video below:
User Defined Maximum DCR in ADAPT-Builder
Admin : May 24, 2022 12:00:00 AM
ADAPT-Builder has historically been hard coded to design reinforcement for strength load combinations to a maximum demand/capacity ratio of 1.0....
How are Cantilevered Slabs designed?
Admin : Oct 21, 2014 12:00:00 AM
Concrete buildings often have large cantilevers. In RISAFloor ES, the Support lines can be drawn to support points but also they can be drawn as...