What is the best way to display the moment and Shear-force diagrams for horizontal slabs in a building?
I am referring to inplan forces.! It especially difficult when you have many load-combinations and large amounts of data. Cuts, tables and maps is some solutions.
You can display in-plane shear graphically through panel cuts ,like below
For in plane moment you will have to rely on several perpendicular cuts along the lenght of the slab and check the reduced moment . With this data , build a diagram on excel. Not very practical if you have many slabs.
Rafael Medeiros
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This is applicable when you have simple models, where it is possible to confirm results manually. The problem is for most models, where you have many shear-walls and many load-combinations or modes which inflict forces to the Construction. In many ways i see it as important to retrieve Nxx and Nyy, which is Axial-force generated from in-plane moments. Nxx/Nyy= M/z , (z is the lever-arm)
