{"id":531,"date":"2017-03-31T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildsoftsupport.com\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=531"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:37:06","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-load-applied-at-upper-or-lower-fiber","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/knowledge-base\/what-is-the-difference-between-load-applied-at-upper-or-lower-fiber\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between loads applied at upper or lower fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having the loads applied on the lower fiber will result in more shear reinforcement compared to when the load is applied on the upper fiber.<br \/>\nThis is because when loads are applied on the upper fiber, Eurocode allows to calculate the shear reinforcement with a reduced shear force ( it assumes that close to the supports, are directly transferred to that support). The reduction is calculated according to EN 1992-1-1:2004 <span data-identifyelement=\"614\">\u00a76.2.1 (8)<\/span> (for distributed loads) and \u00a76.2.3 (8) (for points loads).<\/p>\n<p>When the load is applied on the lower fiber, the reduction is not applied.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-539 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/buildsoftsupport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/concrete_loads_fibre.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/concrete_loads_fibre.png 594w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/concrete_loads_fibre-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/concrete_loads_fibre-50x37.png 50w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/concrete_loads_fibre-60x44.png 60w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/concrete_loads_fibre-35x26.png 35w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n    \t\t<div class=\"hts-messages hts-messages--info  hts-messages--withtitle hts-messages--withicon \" id=\"\" style=\"\">\r\n    \t\t\t<span class=\"hts-messages__title\">Remark<\/span>    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\t<p>\r\n    \t\t\t\t\tDiamonds supposes at all times that the loading is applied on the lower fiber (most conservative).    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\r\n    \t\t<\/div><!-- \/.ht-shortcodes-messages -->\r\n    \t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having the loads applied on the lower fiber will result in more shear reinforcement compared to when the load is applied on the upper fiber. This is because when loads are applied on the upper fiber, Eurocode allows to calculate the shear reinforcement with a reduced shear force ( it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht-kb-category":[54],"ht-kb-tag":[955,954],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29853,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/531\/revisions\/29853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}