10B. DIMENSIONING PART 2/4

CHAPTER 10B 'DIMENSIONING' 9 1.1.4 Arming preferences Bracing preferences: to determine whether one or two bars are to be placed as common support reinforcement in the beams, if you wish to take into account the bars both openings in the support reinforcement, as well as the anchorage length by varying, if you wish, the support width of the beam. By selecting the command, and after pointing to a beam, the dialog box appears: EXAMPLES: In the common support the irons to be placed, based on the above option, are two separate irons. By left-clicking on the bars, their status changes and they become a single line which means that the common bars that will be placed will be single. Here the bars coming from the openings on either side enter the respective openings both above and below the beam. This means that when calculating the bars placed in the support, the program will take into account the bars from both spans (both up and down in the support).