Design Checks

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

Design Checks with Ratios

Utilization of the Envelope

At each point of the designed object, the maximum utilizations from all verifications are displayed. Since all verification types and limit states are combined, the result diagrams are often not continuous.

Displaying Design Ratio of Envelopes

The envelope is suitable for quickly gaining an overall overview of the utilization of the different objects and for documentation. Errors in the display of the verifications can be ignored if the entirety of the valid verifications is to be represented. For this, you can also use the option 'Max. of all verifications without errors'.

If only certain verifications are to be considered for the envelope, activate the option 'Max. of all selected verifications'. You can then select the relevant verification types.

For an overview of critical areas in a beam structure, the display type Without Diagram is recommended. The utilizations are represented as 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 Verification Type

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

For members, the maximum utilization of the results for the selected verification types is displayed at each point. With this option, you can determine which verification type is decisive at a given point.

Displaying Design Ratio by Design Type on Members

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

For surfaces, the utilizations are displayed as isolines.

Displaying Design Ratio on Surfaces

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

• Top
• Middle
• Bottom

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