I am designing a floor slab for the below mentioned view of the building. In the plan view the center part of the portion is to be left empty and the remaining area should be covered by slabs. In how many ways can i design a slab to account for both the loading and the stiffness of the slab. Also how will the loading of the slab changes in those cases.
Thanks Modestas.
No, you do not need to merge it. If you merge the beams, the connectivity between the beams and the plates will not be correct.
Hello sir. Based on this your answer, I have a question.
Beams that are splited during plate meshing, do I need to merge them again to become one?
Because analyzing it as splited makes the beam to be series of beams with equal spans corresponding to the mesh segments. Thanks
When you choose the Geometry > Generate Mesh > Create Mesh option, you will need to click on the nodes to define the boundary to identify the meshing area. Once you click back on the first node to close the loop, you will get a dialog box where you can specify the number of divisions along each edge
By appropriately I meant a couple of things.
a. Don't use too many divisions. The default is 10. You may try with smaller number of divisions if you are getting too many plates with 10 divisions along each edge. For smaller edges specially even 2 or 3 may be good. You need to use your judgement here. The goal is to minimize the number of elements being generated.
b. The number of divisions along the common edge for adjacent meshes need to match. So when meshing the regions ensure that you specify same number of divisions at the common edges.
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How to set the number of divisions appropriately along each edge and what does appropriately means.
In my structure the beams are not split into smaller segments. What would be the appropriate number of elements to split the beam?