The 2013.e version incorporates a new beam editor in CYPECAD (Results > Beams/Walls > Edit beams). The same editor is used in Continuous beams, which was implemented in the 2012.m version and has been improved in several updates of the 2013 version. Hence, beam edition in CYPECAD has substantially improved using the features offered by the new editor:
- Detailed U.L.S. and S.L.S. check reports for concrete beams
- U.L.S. and S.L.S. reports for steel beams
- Diagrams of required and effective reinforcement areas
- Improved edition of the resistant elements of the frames: reinforcement, steel sections, infills, trusses, connectors, etc.
The new beam editor is currently available in CYPECAD for design in accordance with the Spanish EHE-08 concrete design code and Brazilian ABNT NBR 6118:2007 concrete design code. More concrete design codes will be implemented in upcoming program updates.
U.L.S. and S.L.S. reports for concrete beams (with check for failure due to torsion and design criteria for seismic loads)
CYPECAD, using its new beam editor, generates Detailed ultimate and serviceability (U.L.S. and E.L.S.) limit state check reports for concrete beams (
and 
buttons of the editor). In previous versions, the checks on the concrete beams were carried out internally by the program, but these were not indicated in the U.L.S. and E.L.S. reports. Now, the U.L.S. and E.L.S. reports that are generated also indicate the articles of the codes in accordance to which the checks refer to.
More features of the beam editor are present in CYPECAD than in Continuous beams due to the torsional and seismic analysis performed by CYPECAD. The U.L.S. and E.L.S. reports provided in CYPECAD include checks for failure due to torsion in reinforced concrete beams (available for the Spanish EHE-08 and Brazilian ABNT NBR 6118:2007 concrete design codes, as well as all the other checks and the new beam editor) and also incorporates the specific checks of the design criteria for seismic loads for reinforced concrete beams (available when the selected concrete and seismic codes are the Spanish EHE-08 and NCSE 02 codes).
U.L.S. and S.L.S. reports for steel beams
The detailed U.L.S. and S.L.S. check reports for steel beams (
and 
buttons of the editor) and the steel beam series check (
button of the editor) are also obtained in the new beam editor (in previous versions, these were obtained using the Beam errors option in the Beams/Walls option in the Results tab).
Diagrams of required and effective reinforcement areas
CYPECAD’s new beam reinforcement editor includes, as does Continuous beams, diagrams indicating the required and effective areas of the reinforcement provided in the edited frame.
Reinforcement bar bending diagrams in frame drawings and column detailing drawings
Bar bending diagrams of the longitudinal and transverse reinforcement of frames are included in the drawings of frames (depending on the selected code) belonging to jobs which can use CYPECAD’s new beam editor.
The bar bending diagrams are also included in the Column detailing drawings.
