2.18.3 The “Concrete beam” tool in Tekla Structures
The “Concrete beam” tool creates a horizontal section
of a definite profile. It differs from a column only by the fact that a
column can be built up strictly vertically, but a beam at any position.
Tilting a column automatically transforms it into a beam and vice versa.
In fact, this tool is applicable for drawing up practically every kind
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Delete all the beams in the model at the elevation point of +0,000.
Rotate the view in the way to concomitantly select all the beams at a
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Select the beams by framing them and press the "Delete" button.
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Open the available views menu by enabling the Ctrl+I hotkey combination.
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As you can see, there is no elevation level of -0,250 mm. Let’s
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Select the grid.
Go to the "Views catalog" by pressing the Ctrl+I hotkey combination.
Select all the views.
Delete all the views by pressing the "Delete" button.
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Close the "Views catalog" window.
Let’s create the views along the grid lines.
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Go to the -0,250 elevation view.
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Rotate the view and set up the "View depth" at its "Up"
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Create a concrete beam with the profile 800*300 and a class equal to 6
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Compare your results to the below:
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Copy the beam in the way to connect all the columns as it is shown below:
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At the curved base portion analogously connect the columns by beams preventively
setting out the curved beam radius at 12000 mm, and the number of segments
equal to 50.
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Similar to the steel beams, the concrete beams are adjustable by the “Polygon
cut”, “Line cut”, “Fit part end” tools. Let’s
apply the “Fit part end” to the beams, to test out how it works
with the concrete objects.
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Fit all the necessary beams.
Further, by using the "Copy Special/ Mirror" tool, create all
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Compare your results to those presented below:
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Conclusions:
The “Concrete beam” tool is applied for modeling straight-lined
and curved objects.
The “Concrete beam” tool properties are similar to the “Steel
beam” properties.