The printout report has been fundamentally revised in the new program versions.
Significant improvement points are, on the one hand, the modernized printout report design and, on the other hand, the non-modal printout report environment, which allows for parallel work in the program and in the report.
Moreover, there are numerous other improvements. For example, you can use the printout report manager to select the content quickly and easily, or using filter options, if necessary; it is now possible to output the design formulas used for the design and, in addition to the input data and results, to import the external data, such as PDF documents or 3D graphics, into the printout report.
Improved Printout Report
The results for members can be displayed graphically, using the Member Hinges navigator category. The numerical results of member hinges can be found in the Results by Member table category. The Member Hinge Deformations and Member Hinge Forces tables are available for the analysis and documentation of the deformation and force results in the area of member hinges.
The table lists the deformations and forces of each member for the locations specified in the Results Table Manager. There, you can also control which extreme values are displayed.
Do you have individual column sections and angled wall geometries, and need punching shear design for them?
No problem. In RFEM 6, you can perform punching shear design not only for rectangular and circular sections, but for any cross-section shape.
For a response spectrum analysis of building models, you can display the sensitivity coefficients for the horizontal directions by story.
These key figures allow you to interpret the sensitivity to stability effects.
The modal relevance factor (MRF) can help you to assess to which extent specific elements participate in a specific mode shape. The calculation is based on the relative elastic deformation energy of each individual member.
The MRF can be used to distinguish between local and global mode shapes. If multiple individual members show significant MRF (for example, > 20%), the instability of the entire structure or a substructure is very likely. On the other hand, if the sum of all MRFs for an eigenmode is around 100%, a local stability phenomenon (for example, buckling of a single bar) can be expected.
Furthermore, the MRF can be used to determine critical loads and equivalent buckling lengths of certain members (for example, for stability design). Mode shapes for which a specific member has small MRF values (for example, < 20%) can be neglected in this context.
The MRF is displayed by mode shape in the result table under Stability Analysis → Results by Members → Effective Lengths and Critical Loads.