Building will be introduced later.
There are common used steel and common used concrete material definitions in Building Design Suite library. Definitions must be imported in order to be used as shown below.
Go to Materials section → click “ Material DB” → select materials → click “import”
There are rebar definitions in Building Design Suite library. They are also must be imported in order to be used. Process is the same as importing of material definitions.
Go to Rebar section → click “Rebar DB” → select rebars → click “import”
A material must be assigned to rebars to avoid errors during analysis as shown below.
Load classifications are added from load classes section as shown below.
Go to Load Classes → Add
Choose load class
Self Weight class is being created automatically at the start of project.
Load properties based on loading schedule are added from Loads section as shown below. Add 4 loadings. SDL is 20 psf LL is 40 psf for residential areas, SDL is 35 psf LL is 60 psf for terrace, LL is 100 psf for public escape areas but will be loaded as sum of 40 psf LL + 60 psf LL.
Go to Loads section → Click “add”
Select load class and type
Enter value of load and name as it's value and class
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