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Is it always necessary to create member sets when modeling and designing reinforced concrete downstand beams in RFEM 6?
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With the Camera Fly Mode view option, you can fly through your RFEM and RSTAB structure. Control the direction and speed of the flight with your keyboard. Additionally, you can save the flight through your structure as a video.
The result tables show in color whether the internal forces are positive or negative, as well as showing the relation to the extreme values. The result tables of the design modules use color scales to represent the respective design ratios. This way, the governing locations are apparent immediately.
In RFEM, the oriented strand board (OSB) material is available for the USA and Canada. The material parameters are taken from the "Panel Design Specification manual".
Using the "Beam Panel" thickness type, you can model timber panel elements in 3D space. You just specify the surface geometry and the timber panel elements are generated using an internal member-surface construct, including the simulation of the connection flexibility.
A "beam panel" provides you with the following advantages:
- Single-sided and double-sided sheathing is possible
- Automatic calculation of a semi-rigid coupling
- Boarded sheathing
- Stapled sheathing
- User-defined sheathing
- Representation as a complete geometric 3D object (frame, crosstie, column, sheeting, staples), including eccentricity
- Considering openings via surface cells
- Design of the structural elements utilizing the Timber Design add-on
- Independent of material (for example, drywall with cold-formed sections and gypsum fibreboards as the sheathing)