Hi friends, On last week's newsletter, we learned how to calculate and design reinforced concrete beams by hand. Today, I'll show you how to use structural design software to achieve the same. As I said last week, knowing and learning the formulas from Eurocode or other standards is important, as you need to know what inputs you need to insert into the software. And you need to evaluate if the results make sense. Garbage in equals garbage out! But if you are familiar with the formulas,...
2 months ago • 8 min read
Hi friends, In the last 14 episodes of this reinforced concrete series, we learned all fundamentals and the most important design verifications. In the next couple of weeks, we design structural elements like beams, columns, frames, slabs, and much more using the verifications that we learned in the last weeks. In this newsletter, we'll design and verify a reinforced concrete beam. We design the rc beam for bending, shear, cracks and deflection. I did the design calculations in Maple Flow and...
2 months ago • 7 min read
Hi friends, Here on the Structural Basics newsletter I always teach you how to calculate, design and verify structural members by hand - formula by formula - step-by-step. This is important to learn structural engineering. You need to know the formulas. But in reality, every structural engineer today uses software to design structural elements such as beams, columns, slabs, etc. This saves us so much time, you can generate much nicer reports than with your paper hand calculations and (only...
3 months ago • 7 min read