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Concrete Interaction Diagrams

Concrete Interaction Diagrams

Concrete Interaction Diagrams

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Hello all,

I just finished writing a design program to output PM curves for square or circular cross-sections with the option of square or circular voids in the center.  Aside from the standard square sections in the PCI Handbook, does anybody know where I could obtain interaction diagrams from other programs or computations?  I'd like to use them in validating my program's results.  Either conventionally reinforced or prestressed would be helpful.

Thanks very much!

RE: Concrete Interaction Diagrams

PCA Column is very good

RE: Concrete Interaction Diagrams

The spreadsheet attached will do an interaction diagram for a rectangular section with or without prestress and with a rectangular stress block or a parabolic-rectangular stress block (as well as elastic analysis, crack widths, time related strains etc).  More details here:

http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/reinforced-concrete-section-analysis-7-rectangular-sections/

Also more about the effect of the two different stress blocks here:

 http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/stress-blocks-in-as-3600/

It uses the Australian codes only at the moment, but the unfactored diagram should be very close to ACI.

For non-rectangular sections (including circular) the spreadsheet ULS Design Functions.xls

can be downloaded from here:

http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/reinforced-concrete-section-analysis-5-ultimate-limit-state/

Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services
http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/
 

RE: Concrete Interaction Diagrams

I love PCA column!

RE: Concrete Interaction Diagrams

Have you looked at xtract? It will give you P-M curves and will also do moment curvature and some other things. It was developed at Berkeley and used to go by the name ucfyber. It does quite a bit for section analysis. It will allow you to put holes in your section which it sounds like you want, it also handles non-linear material properties. You can get a 15 day free trial - enough to compare your software.
http://www.imbsen.com/xtract.htm

RE: Concrete Interaction Diagrams

RAPT lets you do circular/square columns with voids in its column design section.

RE: Concrete Interaction Diagrams

SEIT:

I always suspected that you had issues.  bigsmile  

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
Motto:  KISS
Motivation:  Don't ask

RE: Concrete Interaction Diagrams

PCA column certainly does a good job.  However, a license will run you $1000 or more, won't it?  I don't know if they have a demo version or not.  

The RISA-3D program has detail reports which also report the P-M interaction diagram (although not with as much detail and control as the PCA program).  RISA will do this for circular or rectangular columns. It won't work for complex geometries or voids.  But, if you're looking for share ware or a "free demo" program I'm not sure you're going to find much that will work better for your testing than the RISA-3D Demo.   

RE: Concrete Interaction Diagrams

CANCMM,

I have tried to develop a spreadsheet with similar capabilities to the program that you're developing.  I didn't get too far with the voids however.  Can you share any information regarding the algorithms that you've used?

Thanks,

KootK

RE: Concrete Interaction Diagrams

Just in case it wasn't clear from my previous post, the spreadsheet at:
http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/reinforced-concrete-section-analysis-5-ultimate-limit-state/  

Will handle circular and square sections with voids, or any other symmetrical section.

It is also free and open source, and it uses a closed form solution so is pretty quick.

Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services
http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/
 

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