MWS meshes, parameters

Select the country or the standard, the catalog entries of which should be used as a basis. You can see the standards entered in the Standards catalog on the Catalog menu.
This setting affects the selection of possible diameters.

Use the

icon if necessary to define the diameter and spacing of the reinforcement
or
enter the required cross-sectional area for reinforcement in the As Longit. and As Transv. In both longitudinal and transverse directions
or
use As values from the FEA calculation as the basis for the reinforcement results of a FEA calculation. This requires a fully completed FEA calculation of a half floor designed using the tools in the Precast Slab task area. If the results of the FEA calculation are not available, you can import them by clicking the FEA data import button. Click the upper button to select the FEA drawing file. You cannot use FEA results for meses you want to place individually.

Define the production direction of the mesh, the spacing between the longitudinal and cross bars and the reinforcement layer of the longitudinal bars. In addition, you can specify whether assembly bars are created and longitudinal bars are staggered at regular intervals here.

Furthermore, when in the Number field you can define the mark number and when in the Name field you can define a label for the individual mesh or meshes in a placement.

This name and the number are then written down on the individual mesh. As is the case with the reinforcement groups created with

MWS Reinforcement Group, the next free available number is suggested on creation. You can overwrite the proposed, next available number by a number that has already been issued to another mesh. When creating the production data or lists, a unique allocation is no longer possible and may result in error messages or warnings!

Define graduation parameters in the Parameters area via the option for the reinforcement of longitudinal bars staggered at regular intervals here.

You can define the percentage of continuous longitudinal bars. The program uses this value when you have turned the Alternating shortening option off. For reinforcement graduation, you can go to Calculation of shortening and use a percentage or fixed values to shorten the bars in relation to the mesh dimensions.

Depending on the selection for Calculation of shortening you can then define the shortening percentage or the shortening value - start as well as the shortening value - end.

In addition, it is also determined here if Alternating shortening is desired for the bars or not.

Note: You can define the settings for attached reinforcement in the Configurations - General. Click

to read these settings into this dialog box.