RCsection - numBars - basArea

nibas · Post by **nibas** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:11 am

Dear All,

I am trying to understand if the numBars of the RCsection proc is

a)the numbers of bars in each side of the section or

b)the numbers of bars in each side of the section minus 1 in order not to count 2 times the corner bars

the arguments of the proc are

proc RCsection {id h b cover coreID coverID steelID numBars barArea nfCoreY nfCoreZ nfCoverY nfCoverZ}

for example in a rectangular section with 4 bars total (one in each corner) the numBars is 1 or 2???

silvia · Post by **silvia** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:31 am

look at the proc and see how the bars are distributed.
the minus 1 is so that you don't double-count corner bars.

nibas · Post by **nibas** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:41 am

Silvia, thanks for your reply but,

if i pun unit (1) in numBars, then opensees crashes and gives a mesage about

# Determine the spacing for the remaining bars in the y direction
set spacingY [expr ($coreY-$ncoreY)/($numBars-1)]

So, if I have a rectangular with 4 bars (one at each corner), what should I put in numBars 1 or 2???

silvia · Post by **silvia** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:30 pm

modify the proc.