topic Re: thickness of slab in Robot Structural Analysis Forum

thickness of slab

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:55:15 GMT

when i take floor and and give it thickness , the thickness takes in z+ and z- , half in z+ and another half in z- , i want to take full thickness in one direction such as z+ or z-, what i mean may be called Depth of floor not thickness , any one can help me plz ??

Re: thickness of slab

AhmedZA — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:32:17 GMT

Hi
I'm not sure if i understand your question correctly
if you want to assign vertical offset to the slab i think that is not possible because offset can be used only for bar element so you should assign offset to column if your slab is supported by column or connect them (slab+column) by rigid link

Re: thickness of slab

StefanoPasquini6790 — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:37:42 GMT

Hi, generally in robot panels are designed in midline of thicknesd so, if you want to put it in a specific position you can only use the rigid links to make the "perfect geometrically" model.

My suggestion: the calculation model have to be perfect to give us the phisical behaviour of the structure and the correct results.. Don't care about geometric perfection if you are not sure that this accuracy can generate calculation errors or incorrect results.

Greetongs

Re: thickness of slab

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 23:46:31 GMT

i want to draw two panels but each one have a different thickness can i leveling the top surface of each ?

actually this panels will be treated as raft foundation in robot profram , Is this possible ?

Re: thickness of slab

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:39:10 GMT

Generally there is no need to level the top surface of the panels for the calculation model.

Let the drafters worry about that.

Re: thickness of slab

AhmedZA — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:54:14 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
i want to draw two panels but each one have a different thickness can i leveling the top surface of each ?
actually this panels will be treated as raft foundation in robot profram , Is this possible ?