User Guide#

The concreteproperties user guide lists the assumptions adopted in concreteproperties and provides an overview of each step in the concreteproperties workflow.

Contents

Features#

Analysis Types#

  • ☑ Reinforced Concrete

  • ☑ Steel-Concrete Composite

  • ☑ Prestressed Concrete

Material Properties#

  • ☑ Concrete material

    • ☑ Service stress-strain profiles

      • ☑ Linear profile

      • ☑ Linear profile (no tension)

      • ☑ Eurocode non-linear

      • ☑ Modified Mander non-linear profile (confined & unconfined concrete)

    • ☑ Ultimate stress-strain profiles

      • ☑ Rectangular stress block

      • ☑ Bilinear stress-strain profile

      • ☑ Eurocode parabolic

    • ☑ Flexural tensile strength

  • ☑ Steel material

    • ☑ Stress-strain profiles

      • ☑ Elastic-plastic

      • ☑ Elastic-plastic (with hardening)

  • ☑ Strand material

    • ☑ Stress-strain profiles

      • ☑ Elastic-plastic (with hardening)

      • ☑ PCI journal (1992) non-linear

Gross Section Properties#

  • ☑ Cross-sectional areas (total, concrete, steel, strand)

  • ☑ Axial rigidity

  • ☑ Cross-section mass

  • ☑ Cross-section perimeter

  • ☑ First moments of area

  • ☑ Elastic centroid

  • ☑ Global second moments of area

  • ☑ Centroidal second moments of area

  • ☑ Principal axis angle

  • ☑ Principal second moments of area

  • ☑ Centroidal section moduli

  • ☑ Principal section moduli

  • ☑ Prestressed Aations

Service Analysis#

  • ☑ Cracking moment

  • ☑ Cracked area properties

  • ☑ Moment-curvature diagram

Ultimate Analysis#

  • ☑ Ultimate bending capacity

  • ☑ Squash load

  • ☑ Tensile load

  • ☑ Moment interaction diagrams

    • ☑ M-N curves

    • ☑ Biaxial bending curve

Stress Analysis#

  • ☑ Uncracked stresses

  • ☑ Cracked stresses

  • ☑ Service stresses

  • ☑ Ultimate stresses

Design Codes#

  • ☑ Design code modules

    • ☑ AS3600

    • ☐ AS5100

    • ☑ NZS3101 & NZSEE C5 Assessment Guidelines