Please follow the instructions provided below to create Custom Diapgrahm.
| 1 | Navigate to Diaphragm > Custom Diaphragm Structural elements are used to ensure that the two Precast I Girder work together structurally, and these element is the "Diaphragm”.
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| 2 | Click three-dots icon on Girders cell and pick the two Precast I Girders (G1 & G2) between which the External Diaphragm will be placed. | |
| 3 | Enter skew Angle value as 0. |  |
| 4 | To position the Custom Diaphragm at the starting point between Precast I Girders G1 and G2, set the "Station" column to "Start" for the diaphragm that was defined in the previous step. This ensures that the diaphragm is correctly placed between the beginning of Precast I Girders G1 and G2. Also If you want to place the component at other locations, utilize the station value. | |
| 5 | In the previous "section" step, we made section definitions for different objects, but we didn't define a section for the "Custom Diaphragm." Now, we will proceed to define a new section specifically for the "Custom Diaphragm." Click three-dots icon on Select Station cell and click “Import Section” as in the figure. Import the "Rectangle" section as in the figure |  |
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| 7 | Enter the following data for Offset from edge&top of web [in] as in the figure |  |
| 8 | Set the Type to "Truss" for the "Custom Diaphragm." We have chosen this type because we want the diaphragm to carry only axial loads during the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) analysis. | |
| 9 | Enter the "Custom Diaphragm" data available in the project as in the figure |  |
Follow the below steps to copy and paste all inputs from our data set.
| 1 | Navigate to Custom Diaphragm under Diaphragm on the tree view. |
| 2 | Copy Bracing from model inputs and paste into OpenBrIM. |
The Custom Diaphragm that have been created are illustrated below.
Copy the desired data with the automatic copy button in the upper left corner. Click on the first cell in and use the Ctrl+V shortcut to paste.  
If icon won’t appear, collapse page tree menu by clicking on arrow or using shortcut “[”.  While pasting large data, it would be handy to turn of Auto-refresh . 
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Custom Diaphragm |
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Bracing |
CB1 [PIG1,PIG2] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB2 [PIG2,PIG3] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB3 [PIG3,PIG4] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB4 [PIG4,PIG5] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB5 [PIG1,PIG2] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB6 [PIG2,PIG3] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB7 [PIG3,PIG4] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB8 [PIG4,PIG5] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB9 [PIG6,PIG7] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB10 [PIG7,PIG8] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB11 [PIG8,PIG9] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB12 [PIG9,PIG10] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB13 [PIG10,PIG11] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB14 [PIG11,PIG12] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB15 [PIG13,PIG14] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB16 [PIG14,PIG15] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB17 [PIG15,PIG16] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB18 [PIG16,PIG17] 0 Start Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB19 [PIG6,PIG7] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB20 [PIG7,PIG8] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB21 [PIG8,PIG9] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB22 [PIG9,PIG10] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB23 [PIG10,PIG11] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB24 [PIG11,PIG12] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB25 [PIG13,PIG14] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB26 [PIG14,PIG15] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB27 [PIG15,PIG16] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss CB28 [PIG16,PIG17] 0 End Rectangle 8 10 Truss |
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