To start the reinforcement calculation:
- Click on
or go to the menu ‘Analyze – Reinforcements’.
If you had one or more elements selected, Diamonds will ask you to specify whether you want to calculate the reinforcement for all the elements or only the selected elements.
If you had one or more bars selected, it is also possible to have the intermediate results of the reinforcement calculation written to a txt file (more info on the content of the txt-file). The txt file can be opened from the dialogue for Basic Practical reinforcement via the button
.
- When the calculation is completed, an additional button activates in the results
. Then, you can choose the desired subresult. The meaning of buttons can be found in this article.
More info
- All validation examples related to concrete design can are listed in this article.
- This article explains how to design for a concrete building because this article is just a small step in the process.
- Is Diamonds giving different reinforcement amounts than ConCrete? That’s because they use different assumptions. Read all about it in this article.
- The theory behind calculating the cracked deformation is explained in this blog article.
- The cracked deformation at time infinity calculated with
will not result in the same cracked deformation at time inifinity calculated using 
. That’s because both buttons use different assumptions. This article explains what those assumptions are.
