This code was already implemented in CYPECAD, CYPE 3D and other CYPE programs as of previous versions. Recently, with the 2015.e version, it became part of the group of codes that can be used to carry out punching shear verifications in accordance with code criteria.
Now in the 2015.f version, when the NTCRC:2004 code of Mexico is selected in CYPECAD as the concrete code, beams are edited with the advanced beam editor and columns with the advanced column editor. This implies important improvements in the application of these codes:
- Detailed U.L.S. and S.L.S. check reports for concrete beams and columns (including torsion checks)
- U.L.S. and S.L.S. reports for steel beams and columns
- Diagrams and numerical values for necessary and effective steel areas
- Bar bending diagrams and reinforcement layout configurations in frame drawings
- Design of variable depth concrete beams
- And, generally, provides a quick and comfortable graphical interface to edit the resistant elements of the frame (reinforcement bars, lattices etc.)
If a seismic analysis is carried out, the NTCRC:2004 code is compatible with a group of seismic codes, but it is only with the NTC-2004 code that the advanced column and beam editors of CYPECAD can be used and take into the account its criteria for the capacity design in the design of concrete columns and beams.
More information can be found in the section on the “Advanced beam editor” of CYPECAD in the concrete beams webpage.
The concrete and seismic codes for which CYPECAD takes into account capacity design criteria for concrete columns and beams can be seen in the “Capacity design criteria for seismic design of concrete columns and beams” section of the CYPECAD webpage.
More information can be found in the section on the “Design codes available for use with the Advanced beam editor” in the webpage dedicated to concrete beams in CYPECAD.
In the section on “Programs which generate U.L.S. check reports”, more information can be found on the codes that are available for CYPECAD’s advanced column editor.
