Design Checks

In the Navigator category Designs, you can specify which designs with the respective utilizations are displayed on the designed objects. You can choose to display the envelope from all design types or the utilizations separated by limit state and design type.

Design Checks with Ratios

Utilization of the Envelope

At each location of the designed object, the maximum utilizations from all designs are displayed. Since all design types and limit states are combined, the result diagrams are usually not continuous.

Displaying Design Ratio of Envelopes

The envelope is suitable for quickly gaining and documenting an overview of the utilization of the various objects. Errors in the display of the designs can be ignored if the totality of the valid designs is to be displayed. For this, you can also use the 'Max. all designs without errors' option.

If only certain designs should be considered for the envelope, activate the 'Max. all selected designs' option. You can then select the relevant design types.

For an overview of critical areas in a frame structure, the display model Without Diagram is recommended. The utilizations are represented by colored lines according to the color scale in the control panel. You can use this option when the envelope or a single result type is displayed.

Displaying Member Results Without Diagram

Utilization by Limit State and Design Type

The results can be displayed specifically for each limit state with the individual design types.

For members, the maximum utilization of the results for the selected design types is displayed at each location. With this option, you can read which design type is governing at a specific location.

Displaying Design Ratio by Design Type on Members

The selected results are displayed simultaneously on the model. In the control panel, you can read the colors of the design types and also adjust them if necessary (see chapter control panel of the RFEM manual).

For surfaces, the utilizations are displayed as isosurfaces.

Displaying Design Ratio on Surfaces

You can also select the layer side whose results are to be displayed:

• Top
• Middle
• Bottom

Here, the following applies: If the local z-axis is oriented downwards in the Model Base Data, the top side is on the surface side in the direction of the negative surface z-axis (−z), and the bottom side is correspondingly in the direction of the positive z-axis (+z). If the local z-axis is oriented upwards in the base data, this definition is reversed.