To assign practical reinforcement to a bar or a surface:
- Make sure you’re looking at the reinforcements results
on bars/surfaces. - Select the relevant element(s) and click with the right mouse button.
Depending on the type of element (bar or surface) you’ve selected, you’ll see one of the two screens below.
Basic practical reinforcement for bars
- Enter the reinforcement cross-section (in mm²) for the 4 various longitudinal reinforcements (upper, lower, left and right).
- Using the button
you can open a txt for the selected beams/ columns with the intermediate results of the reinforcement calculation (More info).
Basic practical reinforcement for surfaces
- Enter the total reinforcement cross-section per running meter (in mm²/m) for the upper and lower reinforcement.
Diamonds also has a build-in rebar library (More info). Click
and select the rebar mat in the dialogue box. - On the left, you will find all the rebar mats included in the rebar mats library. On the right, you will find a drawing of the selected mesh with indicated dimensions, diameters of bars. If the reinforcement cross-section is not identical in the two directions, you may specify, at the bottom left, that the mesh should be rotated by 90°.
- The maximum theoretical reinforcement appears next to each reinforcement. In places where the calculated theoretical reinforcement is bigger than the practical reinforcement, will ignore the practical reinforcement during the calculation of the cracked deflection.
- Indicate on how many bars the reinforcement should be distributed.
This number is important for the calculation of the cracking width. If the rebar mat comes from the rebar mat library, this value is filled in automatically. - Click ‘OK’ to assign the practical reinforcement.
