3-1
American Concrete Design
Section
3
3.1 Design Operations
STAAD has the capabilities for performing concrete design. It will
calculate the reinforcement needed for the specified concrete
section. All the concrete design calculations are based on the
current ACI 318.
Two versions of the code are currently implemented. The 2002
edition and the 1999 edition.
To access the 2002 edition, specify the commands:
START CONCRETE DESIGN
CODE ACI
or
CODE ACI 2002
To access the 1999 edition, use the commands:
START CONCRETE DESIGN
CODE ACI 1999