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Hi,

Can you anyone tell me how to model / input shear reinforcement (stirrups) in a RC beam and column? The section module only able to input the longitudinal reinforcement but without shear reinforcement. The only section way I noticed is through confinement, is there any other way beside this approach?

Teowee,

Trying using the Search facility of this Forum with the word "stirrups".

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Thanks for your prompt reply. Initially, I thought was by using the confinement factor under the material but I don't felt is quite right, thanks for your clarification.

I got another question, with regarding on the "output stress/strain for selected location" under the Analysis Output. I try to put specific location that I want to extract the steel strain. I am interested to extract top and bottom reinforcement steel strain. When I put in coordinate point for d3 (vertical axis), and click ok, it return with a message stating "The stress point is outside the stress limit". Should the coordinate points stay within the confined section? For you info, I am using rcts section.

Hi teowee,

when you use a rcts section, distance d3 is measured from the bottom of the section only to put the section reinforcement. In the other cases, such as the computation of the elastic section properties (i.e EI2 and EI3) or the definition of the sectional point coordinates, the local axes are assumed located at the centroid. Hence, try to enter the d3 coordinate with reference to the latter definition.

Federica