S-CONCRETE Multistorey Designer & Batch Processing - Editing Wall Table Data Viewer

Alex_Hopkins

Hello,

I am using S-CONCRETE multistorey designer (as well as batch design/processing) to design precast concrete wall panels. There's some functionality that I am having problems with, relating to modifying information in the Wall Table Data Viewer.

1) The first issue is with using the "Zones" of reinforcing at either end of the panel. The program automatically specifies ties in these sections (ie. 10M @ 250 horizontal ties), however there are some cases where I want to specify no ties. Can this be done? I can't seem to figure out how to do this.

2) There are some other cases where I do not want to apply the "zone" reinforcing at all. I just want to use uniform reinforcing through the entire panel. In these cases I am unchecking the box for "ZoneActive" in the Wall Table Data Viewer but when I create the report there is still a zone of heavier reinforcing in the panel (ie. the first photo below was unchecked under "ZoneActive"). Why is this? I also tried specifying a zone length of "0" but this yielded the result in the second picture below.

Help is much appreciated. Thanks!

Matthew_Sauer1

Hello Alex,

Thanks for getting in touch. Regarding your question #1, it is not possible to do this from the Wall Form/Table, but if you open the generated SCO file after it is created, you can go into S-CONCRETE's Reinforcing Dialogue, and set the Tie size to 'None'.

As for your second question, this can be achieved through the Wall Form, by clicking the 'Zone Active' toggle. Do you notice this same issue if you use the 'Wall Form'? Perhaps if this issue persists in your model, you can open up a support case, and we can dig a little deeper: https://community.altair.com/categories/support

Regards,
Matthew Sauer

Altair Support