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Section 5
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5.51.1 Design Initiation
Purpose
This command is used to initiate concrete design for beams,
columns and individual plate elements.
General format:
STA
RT CONCRETE DESIGN
Description
This command initiates the concrete design specification. With
this, the design parameters are automatically set to the default
values (as shown on Table 3.1). Without this command, none of
the following concrete design commands will be recognized.
Notes
This command must be present before any concrete design
command is used.
Related topics can be found in the following sections:
Design of beams, columns and elements – theoretical
background per ACI 318 -
3.1 to 3.8.1
Design of footings per ACI 318 - 5.52
Design of shear walls per ACI 318 - 3.8.2, 5.53
Design of slabs per ACI 318 using the Slab Designer - 3.8.3