Wide beams overlapping with panels, reducing their overlapped mass

[Mirko.Jurcevic]

Hi!

If I have very wide beams, and they are overlapped with panels above (like T section). Problem is that in such case I get a lot of extra (overlapped) mass (and weight of course).

My idea to model linear negative force, over such bars (linear force is "lifting" the beams). I would put it in self-weight load case and magnitude of such forces would be equal to overlapped section.

Is there a better way to do this, maybe some tool already built-in that I don't know about?

[Rafal.Gaweda · Accepted solution]

Maybe this way for these bars:

[Mirko.Jurcevic]

Nice 😉  That's an interesting solution. I'll keep that in mind.

I could calculate percentage of reduction and apply it only on that part of structure (on beams).

I should have thougt of that.  😄

Thanks!