The "Concrete Design" category manages basic assignments that affect the design of members, surfaces, and nodes of punching shear. Here you can check the objects to be designed, their materials, cross-sections, and thickness, and assign the design configurations to the objects.
For your work within tables, you can use the functions known from RFEM that allow you to Edit Table. The specific tables of the "Concrete Design" category are explained in the following chapters.
Furthermore, the Global Settings dialog box includes general specifications for the concrete design. You can close this dialog box by clicking the
button in the table or using the shortcut menu of the "Concrete Design" entry in the navigator.
Design Configurations
Detailed settings for the individual design checks are defined in Design Configurations. For each limit state, there is a separate design configuration that manages the standard-specific regulations and where you can specify limit values or various design options, for example. Only the design configurations activated in the Global Settings are available. These configurations are described separately for the standards, such as Eurocode, in the chapters for EN 1992‑1‑1.
The design configurations are also organized as types. You can create different types for the individual design configurations and then assign the appropriate configurations, for example, to a member, in the "Design Configurations" tab.
Select an existing configuration from the list or create a new configuration. You can also use the
button to create a new configuration. The
button allows you to graphically transfer the configuration from another object. Use the
button to edit the selected design configuration.
Managing Design Configurations
In the Edit Ultimate Configuration dialog box, you can see all configurations of the limit state in the model in the "list". Click the
button to create a new configuration based on the default values of the design standard spacified in the
standard
. Click the
button to copy the selected configuration and the
button to delete the selected configuration.
Assigning Design Configuration
Similarly to the Types for Concrete Design, you can individually assign the configuration to the objects. There are various options for this:
- Assignment via the
button at the top right of the Edit Ultimate Configuration dialog box
- Assignment in the input table of Concrete Design for configurations (see the image Assigning Ultimate Configurations via Table
- Assignment via a list in the editing dialog of the object
For an object with no configuration assigned to a particular limit state, no design checks are carried out in this limit state. Thus, you can simply deactivate the serviceability limit state design for the individual members by not assigning the serviceability limit state configuration to these members.
