BDS Slab Analysis

Go to Tributary under AEC|BOLT from tree view.

I want to make the tributary Area Factors of C21 and C25 columns 1.1 instead of "1".

I need the "Live Load Reduction" code for this, if this code is not imported, add it from Design Criteria.

Go to Tributary Correction Factors Tab at same spreadsheet.

Set the "Tributary Area Factors" of columns C21 and C25 to 1.1

You can see Reducible Area on this spreadsheet.

Come back to Tributary Analysis Settings and Run Tributary

Go to 1st floor under Slab Analysis from tree view.

Fill in the blanks in the spreadsheet according to your project.

Press the "Run Mesh" button to check the mesh quality.

Click “Run Slab Analysis” button.

After the analysis is complete, the Slab Analysis results is open.

Here you can see the results for each load case.

• “Model”

• “Loading”

• “Deformed”

• “Line Forces”,

• “Surface Forces”

• “Composite Forces” for each

We can see the results in the browser.
Go to the AEC|BOLT BIM Cloud page and press "Open".
The most recent analysis in BDS is displayed in the browser.

Click "Analysis:: Slab Reinforcement Training Example" and open “AEC_SlabAnalysisTemplate2”.

Click “FEA” button abd Run Analysis.

Open the "DATA" spreadsheet after analysis.
After the spreadsheet is opened, do the following steps in order.
FEM → Node Reaction (Global) → Self Weight

Then hover over the Force Z column. Click on the 3 dots that appear, open "Quick Stats" from the dropdown box

The sum value will give the total Self Weight analysis result of this Slab.