ConcreteBending helps you model concrete bending problems using high-level components and engineering terminology. The tool automatically constructs an accurate Finite Element Model.
ConcreteBending Specifications
Codes
- IBC, ASCE 7, or NBC load combinations (customizable)
- ACI 318-14 or CSA A23.3-14 concrete checks
- ACI 350-06 environmental structures (e.g. tank walls)
Modeling
- Elevated slab analysis and design
- Slab & beam systems
- Environmental tank walls
- Complex boundaries, including circular and polygonal templates
- Generate copies of modeling elements using rectangular or circular patterns
- Multiple slab thicknesses
- Holes in concrete
- Wall or beam supports
- Point supports or loads (w/punching shear)
- Automatic FEA mesh generation
- Sophisticated thick-plate finite element formulation
- Import & Export DXF files
Loading
- Customizable load combinations
- Streamlined seismic load combinations
- Uniform or linear area loads, rectangular or circular
- Circular and rectangular “ring” loads
- Overturning loads
- Column loads, axial and moments
- Linear beam loads
- Wall loads, axial and moments
Designing
- Slab shear plotted and checked
- Column and column-group punching shear checks
- Wall punching shear design checks
- Beams are checked for shear, moment, and torsion
- Single or double layer of slab reinforcement
- Size each layer of slab steel
- Reinforcing bar patterns
- Beam checks and reinforcement
- Override for minimum reinforcement
- Export to VisualAnalysis for more complicated tasks
Reporting
- Post-analysis statics check reports
- Full-color reporting for a professional look and easy reading
- Slab and beam moment and shear diagrams
- Preview the report before printing
- Customize what items are included in the report
- Easy export to .xls, .docx, or .pdf file
- Print one-page graphic summaries
ConcreteBending Release Notes
7.00.0001, September 26, 2023
- New concrete specifications: ACI 318-19,CSA A23.3:19, ACI 350-20
- Added scripting (command line) capabilities
- MXY plate results are available
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements
- Free upgrade with non-expired license or subscription
- See the Help (F1) Upgrade Guide for more details
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