Automatic design of reinforcement

The non-prestressed reinforcement in beams can be defined manually by the user or it can be calculated automatically by the program.

The latter designs the reinforcement on the basis of parameters defined in:

• reinforcement template,

• setup dialogue of service Concrete Advanced,

• member data related to the automatic design,

• practical reinforcement defined manually.

The automatic design takes into account the combination of bending moments and axial force and shear forces. It does not include torque and deflections. It works within the ultimate limit state.

The automatic design can be used for loads cases, ULS (not SLS) combinations and classes with ULS or ULS+SLS combinations.

Concerning the parameters mentioned above, the practical reinforcement is of the highest priority. That means, if some reinforcement has been defined, the automatic design uses in the first step the diameter of this practical reinforcement.

There is no output to the document. The results of the automatic design can be reviewed only on the screen in the graphical window and/or in the Preview window. Of course, the bill of reinforcement can be inserted into the document in order to show the reinforcement that has been automatically designed.

The automatic design uses only the layers of the reinforcement marked in the reinforcement template. The automatic design is not capable of adding a new layer in the situation when the required reinforcement cannot be put into just one layer. Therefore, it may happen that the automatic design can fail.