C13 General Column - Product Spec Sheet

GENERAL COLUMN DESIGN ANY SHAPE OF REINFORCED COLUMN DESIGN | DETAILING | C13

Summary General Column designs columns with any general shape. Rather than using the simplified design approach set out in most codes, General Column designs the column section from first principles.

What makes this module special?

 Custom sections  Evaluate column capacity for entered bars  Generation of bending schedules

Detailed Description Design and detail concrete columns with any general shape. Enter the column outline and any openings, as well as the position and size of each longitudinal reinforcement bar. General Column designs columns that do not necessarily fall inside the scope of the codes’ simplified design method requirements. The module therefore reverts to basic principles, e.g., strain compatibility and equilibrium, to analyse columns. During the design, you have the option of evaluating the column capacity for the reinforcement bars as entered, or to calculate the minimum bar size required to resist the design loads. You can generate a reinforcement bending schedule that you can edit and print with Padds .

GENERAL COLUMN DESIGN ANY SHAPE OF REINFORCED COLUMN DESIGN | DETAILING | C13

Theory used in this module  The section properties are calculated, and the column slenderness evaluated.  For a slender column, the additional slenderness moment is calculated and applied about the weak axis. The output gives the X and Y axis components.  The design moment and axis are determined by taking the vector sum of the applied and additional moments.  An iterative solution is obtained using strain compatibility and equilibrium as criteria.

Workflow Columns and their applied loading and properties can either be defined in the module or imported from Sumo.

Key Features  Generation of bending schedules

 Custom Sections with general column design  Evaluate column capacity for entered bars

GENERAL COLUMN DESIGN ANY SHAPE OF REINFORCED COLUMN DESIGN | DETAILING | C13

Supported Design Codes

Concrete Design Codes

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ACI 318 - 1999 ACI 318 - 2005 ACI 318 - 2011 ACI 318 – 2014 ACI 318 - 2019 AS 3600 - 2001 AS 3600 - 2009 AS3600 - 2018 BS 8110 - 1985 BS 8110 - 1997

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CP 65 - 1999

CSA A23.3-04 – 2010 CSA A23.3: 2019 Eurocode 2 - 2004 HK Concrete - 2004 HK Concrete - 2013

IS:456 - 2000 NZ 3101 – 2006

SABS 0100 - 2000 SP 63.13330.2018

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