Microstran RC Design

I'm not familiar with that warning. Can you send the file that has the problem and confirm your version?

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Hi Seth,

File attached. If you go and  run the RC design for all the beams. One of the beam will experience the overlapping critical shear warning.

Regards

Victor

Hi Victor,

I will prefaced response below with this - Microstran RC design has not been maintained for a very long time and is outdated. We have other solution such as STAAD and RAM that is more updated and may suit your needs.

Having said that:

If you are using CONNECT Edition of Microstran, when you select to design RC interactively you should see a small "?" icon in the top right of the dialog. You can query the meanings of the fields in the dialog if you select that.

Under Shear Design, you can get rid of the warning by changing the values of "Critical Section" to 0:


Additional Explanatory Note:


You previously had these Set to "A"= 1 and "B" = 1, these results in the two areas overlapping (due to the beam length being so short Member 2 Length only 280 mm and your section depth is 200 mm).

Hi Victor,

I will prefaced response below with this - Microstran RC design has not been maintained for a very long time and is outdated. We have other solution such as STAAD and RAM that is more updated and may suit your needs.

Having said that:

If you are using CONNECT Edition of Microstran, when you select to design RC interactively you should see a small "?" icon in the top right of the dialog. You can query the meanings of the fields in the dialog if you select that.

Under Shear Design, you can get rid of the warning by changing the values of "Critical Section" to 0:


Additional Explanatory Note:


You previously had these Set to "A"= 1 and "B" = 1, these results in the two areas overlapping (due to the beam length being so short Member 2 Length only 280 mm and your section depth is 200 mm).