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Beam grid concrete - pile distances and stirrups

With XFEM4U you can easily design a beam grid or a piled concrete foundation, and optimise its design.

Beam grid with pile reactions

Pile distances

In this screen you can adjust the pile distances. You can do this in two ways:

  1. by clicking on the dimension line and entering a different distance, or
  2. by dragging the support point graphically with the mouse.

After changing this, the beam grid is automatically recalculated, so you see the result immediately.

Stirrups

The stirrups are automatically designed based on a combination of shear force and torsion.

Stirrups

The centre-to-centre stirrup distances, and the area over which the stirrups run, can be changed graphically by clicking on the appropriate dimension line.

Stirrups table

See also

  • Reinforcement - longitudinal reinforcement, adjusting, extending and deleting reinforcement bars
  • Compatibility torsion - the torsion behaviour the stirrup design is based on