Good day, I just started practising staad with a friends PC and I noticed that staad has an option for one way spanning slab.
now my question goes does, if I change it from the default (longer direction) To the shorter direction. or design a two-way slab as a one way and I span it in the shorter direction is it possible in real life?
STAAD would typically distribute the one way type loading on the long beams which is how it would be in reality. The Towards option in provided in addition, to give the user an opportunity to override that, in case needed. Let's say, if you have precast panels resting on the beams spanning the shorter direction.
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What If I place my main rebar in the direction of the shorter beam for an in-situ concrete slab would the load be transferred towards that direction (in practical sense). Because I can place my one way load towards any direction in staad