Dear Bentley team, I encountered an issue regarding crack width calculation in RCDC with ACI 318M-14 code, described as follows: Refer to the outputs attached below. The considered beam is B5 and Zone is Top right. When beam is designed with permissible…

Bentley Team, How is the effective depth for beam being calculated for a beam with two or more numbers of layers in RCDC software? Please provide the basis and validation for the same. I could find some formula related to effective depth in FAQ…

Hello Everyone How can I reduce the development length bars in the beam (Figure 1-1), I'm running to get a result like this beam (figure 2-1) Figure 1-1 Figure 2-1

I am trying to design the beams for the concrete structure I analysed in STAAD but every I arrive at Beam design, when I click on the "design button", it gives me the error message "Beam forces not imported". I an able to design columns, slabs and footing…

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?