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Whencheckingaflexureandaxialmember,howtofindoutthesafetyofthemember?
OftendrawingPMinteractiondiagram?
Orsimplycheckingtheequationofthesafety?
WhenyoudrawthePMinteractiondiagram,usingthesoftwareorspreadsheet?
Andtellmethesoftware'sname(commercialorfree)
IuseanexcelspreadsheetthatcalculatesthemaxPvaluewithoutM,thebalancedconditionforPandMandthe
maximumMvalue.Allofthisisforagivenbararrangement.
IcalculatethemaxPvalueallowedandthendrawaseriesoflinesthroughthese4points.Thisismyinteraction
diagram.Ithencheckloadingconditionsagainstthisinteractiondiagramandhopefullyallpointsfallwithin.
Ifnot,thenIchangethebararrangement.Thespreadsheetthencalculatesmaximumstirrupspacingandmy
standarddetailstakecareofthetiearrangementandspacingatthetopandbottom.Ifshearisanissue,Idoitby
handIhaven'thadachancetomodifythespreadsheettodothis.
youmindgivingmethisspreadsheet
Ifyoudon'thaveaccesstoaprogramlikePCACOL,Iwouldjustconstructaninteractiondiagrambyhand.It's
reallyprettysimpletodo.Iusethefollowingpointsonthediagram:
PureAxialLoad,Decompression(whereonefacehas0strain),BalancedPoint(compressioncontrolledpoint),
TensionControlledPoint,andPureMoment.
Itisimportanttonotethatthephifactorwillbethesameformomentandaxialdependingonthestraininthe
steel.
Plottingthesethreepointswillcertainlywork,butkeepinmindthatit'sfairlyconservative.
StructuralEIT,Ibelievethisiswhatyoumeant,butitwasn'tcleartome:atanygivenP,Mpointonthecurve,there
isonlyonephifactorwhichwillbeappliedtobothaxialandflexuralcapacity,andwhichdependsentirelyonthe
strainintheextremelayerofsteel(thisiscorrect)
http://www.cement.org/buildings/TimesavingColumnsIA.pdf
Also:
http://www.ceref.com/short_col.htm
http://www.strunet.com/concrete_column/ccol03.html
yadik,sendthatspreadsheetmyway!
FloridaDepartmentofTransportationhasareallygoodbiaxialcolumnanalysisprogram.Youcanbuildarbitrary
shapes,rectangular,squareetcquicklyandeasily.ThanenteryourloadcasepointsandaMathCadspreadsheet
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PMinteractiondiagram(concrete)StructuralengineeringothertechnicaltopicsEngTips

willproducea3Dbiaxialcolumn.YoucanviewtheorbitsorthePMdiagrams.Reallyeasytouse.Theonlydraw
backisthatyoumustbeusingashortcolumn.Momentamplificationisnotdoneforyou.

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/Structures/proglib.htm
dikCanIgetacopyofthespreadsheetyouusefordevelopingthepointsontheMPdiagram?

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