Slab bottom reinforcement design is made in this section.
Figure 1
Uniform Reinforcements
Click Custom Zone Uniform Reinf. button as shown in Figure 1 to draw a custom uniform reinforcement region in slab.
Click Select Slab For Uniform Reinf. button as shown in Figure 1 and select slab edge or slab piece to assign as uniform reinforcement region.
Figure 2
Click Show cell in spreadsheet to select the uniform reinforcement region in AutoCAD as demonstrated in Figure 2.
Click N/Showing Additional Rebar Zones button as shown in Figure 1 to see the extra reinforcement demand regions in slab plan as illustrated in Figure 3.
Figure 3
Select rebar number and enter the spacing data of reinforcement layers.
Additional Reinforcements
Figure 4
Additional reinforcements to uniform reinforcement regions are added from this spreadsheet.
Click Draw Slab Reinf. to draw rebar. Additional rebars must be drawn from support face to support face and in order to calculate the contribution of additional reinforement to capacity rebar region should be drawn.
Figure 4
Click Draw Region cell to draw the effective region of additional rebar.
Enter spacing, rebar number and rebar count data in the spreadsheet as illustrated in Figure 4.
Inregrity Bottom Bar
Figure 5
Integrity bottom reinforcements for punching shear are added from this spreadsheet.
Select bar diameter and code check template for inregrity bottom bar. See
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