Advanced Concrete Member Alternatives Available in Release 7.1
August 20, 2021New for the 7.1 release scheduled for August 2021 is the introduction of a new Advanced Concrete Member Alternative that can be either reinforced concrete or post-tensioned concrete. The post-tensioned concrete member alternatives allow partial length tendons, which allows regions of the beam to be analyzed as post-tensioned and other regions to be analyzed as reinforced concrete. The new Advanced Concrete Member Alternatives are available in girder system and girder line superstructure definitions. This new feature includes the ability to define post-tensioned I-beams and the ability to use the features of a girder system superstructure definition to model a multi-cell box structure as individual concrete beams.
Features of the new Advanced Concrete Member Alternatives include:
- Wide variety of cross sections can be modeled including non-symmetric and precast shapes
- Regions of post-tensioning and regions of reinforced concrete within the same member
- Overlapping post-tensioning tendons
- Selection of stage of post-tensioning application
- Post-tensioned I-beams
Variety of Cross Sections
Overlapping Tendons
Multi-Cell Box Modeled as Individual Advanced Concrete Girders