CYPECAD

• Do not carry out the static base shear correction
  This option allows users to not apply the base shear check and, therefore, not adjust the results, based on the project designer’s criteria.
• Based on the code
  This was the only option CYPECAD had to offer in previous versions. Using this option, the program adjusted the results by calculating the modification factor in accordance with what was specified in the corresponding seismic code. The design code specifies that the base shear resulting from the dynamic analysis be greater than a specific percentage of the static shear defined in the code. This percentage depends on how ‘regular’ the structure is.
• Specify the static base shear percentage
  Using this option, users can define, in accordance with a justified criteria, what static base shear percentage is to be taken as the minimum limit to be reached n the dynamic results.
• Specify the modification factors
  It is recommended this option be used after an initial analysis has been run and its results analysed. By comparing the dynamic and static shear values, a second analysis can be launched with the modification factor values users consider to be adequate. A factor can be defined for each loadcase and analysis direction. This last option also allows for the maximum base shear condition, contemplated in some seismic codes, to be applied. The modification factor can have a value smaller than one, so that the dynamic results are reduced when these exceed the maximum limit established in the design code.

Edit in table

This window allows users to edit a column in a table (top right section of the window) which displays all the spans of the selected column. A summary of the checks carried out on the column span selected in the previous table is also displayed (in the bottom right section of the window).

It is also very useful to show the ultimate limit state (U.L.S.) checks of the selected column span or all the spans of the column.

Some buttons are displayed in the top right section, which allow users to: search for a column, redesign the reinforcement of a group of columns, view the details of the selected column, see its 3D view and obtain the U.L.S. check report of all the spans of the selected column.

Included in the top right section of the editor is the “Show densification zones”, which shows or hides, in the edit reinforcement window (top right section), the stirrup spans a concrete or composite column may have. This option only displays the stirrup densification zones each column span may contain but does not allow users to add any other densification zones. This is only possible in the Edit in column schedule window.

When stirrups are edited (by clicking on the stirrup layout in the table), a dialogue box opens where users can add different types of stirrups and crossties to a column span, hence the stirrups of the column can be modified even though their arrangement is not included in the reinforcement tables. This editing option is also available in the Edit in column schedule window.

Users can also edit the longitudinal reinforcement splices of each span and indicate that the splice length of 50% of the bars (of opposite sides or alternate bars) is to be displaced by a specific distance. To do so, select the icon in the cell located to the right of the “Y face” longitudinal reinforcement. Splices can also be edited and displaced in the Edit in column schedule tab by selecting the “Splices and anchorages” button of the longitudinal reinforcement.

Edit in column schedule

This window has been especially designed to edit the reinforcement and steel sections provided in each span of the column groups, and in this case in the view of the column schedule that will be obtained in the drawing.

It contains more editing tools than the “Edit in table” window. Along the top of this window are buttons with which users can:

• Column search
• Filters
  This option is very useful when the job contains many column and/or floor groups, since it allows users to select the floors and groups to be displayed.
• Groups
  The following operations can be carried out in the column schedule, in the schedule itself:
  
  • Join groups
  • Divide groups
  • Modify groups (to another group)
  • Match groups
  • Match data (without grouping columns)
  • Reorganise groups
    
• Edit geometry
• Longitudinal reinforcement (for concrete columns and composite columns)
  
  • Edit
  • Insert
  • Splices and anchorages
    
    
  • Delete
    
• Transverse reinforcement (for concrete columns and composite columns)
  
  • Edit
    
    
  • Insert
  • Densification zones
    Allows users to modify, add or delete stirrup spacings in a column span.
  • Delete
    
• Results
  
  • Redesign group reinforcement
  • Redesign all reinforcement
  • Code check
  • Detailing
  • 3D view