In the Stress-Strain Analysis add-on, you can define a component-dependent limit stress cycle and consider it for the design.
When generating shear walls and deep beams, you can assign not only surfaces and cells, but also members.
You can neglect openings with a certain area in the building model calculation. This function can be activated in the global settings of the building stories. A warning message appears saying that the openings have been neglected.
In the Modal Analysis add-on, you have the option to automatically increase the sought eigenvalues until reaching a defined effective modal mass factor. All translational directions activated as masses for the modal analysis are taken into account.
Thus, it is possible to easily calculate the required 90% of the effective modal mass for the response spectrum method.
The building story generator in the Building Model add-on allows you to automatically create building stories, depending on the topology of the model.
For each load case, the deformations can be displayed at the end time.
These results are also documented for you in the printout report of RFEM and RSTAB. You can select the report contents and extent specifically for the individual design checks.
- Cross-section optimization
- Transfer of optimized sections to RFEM/RSTAB
- Design of any thin-walled section from RSECTION
- Representation of a stress diagram on a section
- Determination of normal, shear, and equivalent stresses
- Output of stress components for the individual member internal force types
- Detailed representation of stresses in all stress points
- Determination of the largest Δσ for each stress point (for example, for fatigue design)
- Colored display of stresses and design ratios for a quick overview of the critical or oversized zones
- Output of parts lists
You have several options available to define masses for a modal analysis. While the masses due to self-weight are considered automatically, you can consider the loads and masses directly in a load case of the modal analysis type. Do you need more options? Select whether to consider full loads as masses, load components in the global Z-direction, or only the load components in the direction of gravity.
The program offers you an additional or alternative option for importing masses: A manual definition of load combinations as of which are the masses considered in the modal analysis. Have you selected a design standard? You can then create a design situation with the Seismic Mass combination type. Thus, the program automatically calculates a mass situation for the modal analysis according to the preferred design standard. In other words: The program creates a load combination on the basis of the preset combination coefficients for the selected standard. This contains the masses used for the modal analysis.
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.
You can display the results as usual via the Results navigator. Furthermore, the dialog box of the add-on shows you the information about the individual floors. Thus, you always have a good overview.