7. LOADS

CHAPTER 7 "CARGOES" 15 2.4 Reaction Performance With this option the loads of the plates are assigned as reactions to the members defining the plates. More specifically, the loads are sent from the plates to the beams and nodes, based on the geometric division made previously (yield lines) (from the plates to the beams and nodes). 2.4.1 Overall to assign the loads of all the plates of the active floor. 2.4.2 Selectively to attach the loads of the selected plates by left-clicking its surface. 2.4.3 Homomorphism means : to assign (globally or selectively , respectively) the loads of the plates to the members, but without the geometric division of the leakage lines into rectangles and triangles, but by reducing the whole surface, corresponding to the member, to an equivalent rectangle. OBSERVATIONS : The attribution of plate loads as reactions to members, for plates that do not need modeling, is done with accurate distribution without them being homogeneous (uniform, triangular, trapezoidal, etc.). The program sends loads to beams and also directly to nodes corresponding to columns. In slabs that are defined by user-entered mathematical members (e.g. high stiffness beams between nodes of basement walls), the loads are assigned to the mathematical members, regardless of whether the mathematical or physical members (walls, columns, etc.) have been selected during modelling and matching of slab sides.