Reinforcements

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Reinforcements

All analytical beams are listed the spreadsheet and beam sections are shown in the drawing space as illustrated in Figure 2.

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AEC | BOLT Building Design Suite enables user to create layered rebar templates or arbitrary rebar templates easily.

Layered Rebar Templates

There are two way of creating layered rebar templates.

First way;

→ Click Create New Template cell of Show Layered Rebar Templates column of desired analytical beam in the spreadsheet as illustrated in Figure 3.

Figure 3

This short cut will assign the template directly to selected analytical beam but user can assign the created template to other beams.

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→ Select the transverse reinforcement in the spreadsheet

→ Enter clear cover to stirrup in the spreadsheet

→ Enter transverse spacing in the spreadsheet

→ Enter leg number

→ Click Reinforcements button shown in Figure 4 to go back to reinforcements spreadsheet

→ Click Show to add rebar layers

Show button will open the longitudinal reinforcement spreadsheet as illustrated in Figure 5

Figure 5

→ Click Add to add rebar layer

→ Select rebar of the layer in the spreadsheet

→ Enter rebar count along the layer in the spreadsheet

→ Enter distance to extreme fiber in the spreadsheet

→ Select the layer location in the spreadsheet

→ Click Back To Rebar Template button to go back to previous spreadsheet

Second way;

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→ Go to Layered Rebar Template spreadsheet

→ Click Add to create rebar template

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→ Select transverse reinforcement number in the spreadsheet

→ Enter clear cover to stirrup in the spreadsheet

→ Enter transverse spacing in the spreadsheet

→ Enter the leg number in y direction in the spreadsheet

→ Click Show cell of the rebar layers column in the spreadsheet

Show button will open longitudinal reinforcement spreadsheet.

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→ Click Add to add rebar layer

→ Select rebar of the layer in the spreadsheet

→ Enter rebar count along the layer in the spreadsheet

→ Enter distance to extreme fiber in the spreadsheet

→ Select the layer location in the spreadsheet

→ Click Back To Rebar Template button to go back to previous spreadsheet

→ Go to Reinforcements spreadsheet and assign the created template to beams

Arbitrary Rebar Templates

There are two way of creating layered rebar templates.

First way;

→ Click Create New Template cell of Show Arbitrary Rebar Templates column of desired analytical beam in the spreadsheet as illustrated in Figure 9.

Figure 9

This short cut will assign the template directly to selected analytical beam but user can assign the created template to other beams.

Figure 10

→ Select the transverse reinforcement in the spreadsheet

→ Enter clear cover to stirrup in the spreadsheet

→ Enter transverse spacing in the spreadsheet

→ Enter leg number

→ Click Reinforcements button shown in Figure 10 to go back to reinforcements spreadsheet

→ Click Draw Rebars button to add rebars

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→ Enter a value as shown in Figure 11

AEC|BOLT Building Design Suite will create reference lines for user to guide the reinforcement placement.

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→ Click on the point where rebar center will be located as illustrated in Figure 12

→ Click Show Rebars to add rebar layers

Show rebars button will open the longitudinal reinforcement spreadsheet as illustrated in Figure 13

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→ Select rebar number of added reinforcements

X&Y global coordinates of the rebars are shown in the spreadsheet demonstrated in Figure 13

→ Click Back to Rebar Template to go back to previous spreadsheet.

Second way;

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→ Go to Arbitrary Rebar Template spreadsheet

You can edit the arbitrary rebar templates created by first method from this spreadsheet.

→ Click Draw Rebars to create arbitrary rebar template

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→ Enter a value as shown in Figure 15

AEC|BOLT Building Design Suite will create reference lines on each beam section for user to guide the reinforcement placement as demonstrated in Figure 16.