minimum 13 stations are required for beam

when i open mdb file of etabs 16 and designing beam  its shows "minimum 13 stations are required for beam" what is the meaning of this?

  • Hi

    it is a requirement of RCDC when beam design is from E-tabs analysis file. RCDC performs the Beam design at 13 stations. i.e. 12 zones. this will help to optimized the design and detail the beams at left, mid and right zones along the length of the beam. this offers various options to detail the beam as per users requirements.

    Use below steps to assign 13 stations to beams

    1. Go to Main Menu Select - by line object type - Beam (Make sure that all beams are selected)

    2. Go to Assign Menu - Frame Line - frame output stations - minimum no of station should be 13

    Please note that for column minimum 2 stations are required. User can still define 3 output stations for columns.

    Answer Verified By: Abhijeet Gundaye