AUTOMATED DESIGN OF CONCRETE BUILDINGS

CONTROLS ON DESIGN PROCESS

The engineer may control the automatic design process in many ways:

Choose the design code: American, Canadian or European
Select the seismic code: American, Canadian or Chilean
Select the Limit States, Ultimate Strength or Working Stress design method
Select any steel and concrete strength; different strength for beams, slabs, columns, walls; different values in different parts of the building
Choose the methods of computing gravity floor loaded distribution and lateral loads
Modify the AMECO procedures for computing member and joint stiffnesses
Preselect the member sizes and have them checked for adequacy or have the sizes selected automatically
Impose limits on the member sizes, on the range of reinforcing bar sizes
Specify the types of bars, trussed, straight, types of stirrups, ties, spirals
Force a group of members to have the same size or the same reinforcing
Override the code specified values for reinforcing cover, minimum and maximum steel percentage, bar spacing
Select the series of bars: America , Canadian SI, Metric, …
Impose limits on the deflections, stresses