IES ConcreteBending User's Guide
Training Videos
You will find the following videos below, showcasing several features available in ConcreteBending.
ConcreteBending is a powerful finite element analysis tool to help engineers quickly and accurately model concrete structures. ConcreteBending also performs design checks per the ACI 318, ACI 350, and CSA A23.3 specifications.
ConcreteBending can design slabs and walls according to three design specifications: ACI 318, ACI 350, and CSA A23.3. Beams can be designed according to ACI 318 and CSA A23.3.
In ConcreteBending, standard circular, rectangular, and polygon boundaries be created, or custom arbitrary boundaries can be drawn. Boundaries can be modified or designated to be a hole. When boundaries overlap each other, the thickness of the overlapping part can be designated.
In ConcreteBending, point supports, line supports, and beams can be used to support the slab out of plane. The properties of the supports can be set to standard values such as fixed, free, pinned, etc. or the stiffness of the supports can be specified. The punching shear is automatically calculated for the supports in the project.
Uniform and linearly varying pressures can be applied to the slab in ConcreteBending. You can draw rectangular, circular, tubular, or ring loads onto the boundaries in the model or select the boundary and apply a load to the entire area.
In ConcreteBending, point loads can be applied to the slab and line loads can be applied to the beams. The size and shape of the point loads can be specified so that the punching shear at the point load can be calculated. Apply service level loads and view the results from standard Load Combinations or create your own Custom Load Combinations.
The displacements, moments, and shears can be displayed graphically for the concrete slab in ConcreteBending. Also, the displacements, moments, shears, and torsion on the beams can be viewed. The reactions at the point supports and line supports can be displayed graphically.
ConcreteBending supports two different design approaches: the optimize approach and the specify approach. The optimize approach lets the program search for the best reinforcement pattern while the specify approach let you input a specific reinforcement pattern for the program to check.
ConcreteBending designs concrete slabs for two-way punching shear, for one-way beam shear, and for flexure. The program visually displays the steel required to satisfy the designated design specification. Also, the suggested reinforcement can be viewed for each slab, for each column line, and for each finite element.
Beams can be designed according to the ACI 318 or the CSA A23.3 specifications in ConcreteBending. Simply specify the longitudinal, shear, and torsional reinforcement let the program check the capacity automatically. In addition to checking flexure, shear, and torsion, ConcreteBending ensures that the minimum flexural steel area, minimum transverse steel area, and the minimum transverse steel spacing requirements are satisfied according to the chosen design specification.
Reports are easily created and modified in ConcreteBending. Either create a complete project report or create custom report by adding and removing the tables and graphics as needed.
ConcreteBending has several advanced reporting features that allow you to create organized and concise reports.
The script feature in ConcreteBending is a powerful tool that uses a command line interface to create model objects, generate service cases, apply loads, extract results, generate reports, and more. The basics of using the command line are discussed in this video.
In addition to using the command line directly, more complex scripts can be generated in any text file in the C# Programming Language and read into ConcreteBending. This allows models to be easily generated, parametric studies to be performed, finite element meshes to be automatically refined, and much more as discussed in this video.
Several new features have been added to ConcreteBending Version 6.0 which are discussed in this video.
A variety of new features have been added to ConcreteBending 7 including a command line, the ability to import external scripts, and plate design diagrams as discussed in this video.