Introduction

Introduction

You can use the FE program for discs to calculate and design disc structures as reinforced concrete discs in accordance with the Baumann method. The following disc systems can be calculated:

• Freeform discs with 30 recesses maximum. The program idealizes jaggies – stair step-like lines that should be smooth - by applying benching to the rectangular elements.
• Up to 40 point or line supports
• Any point and line loads in the disc plane
• The maximum permitted number of elements is 35 x 70

To calculate the elements, the program uses the finite elements method based on the theory of elasticity. The design of reinforced concrete discs is based on the Baumann method (for rectangular reinforcement meshes). Reinforced concrete discs are calculated based condition I; the elasticity values of the concrete are used.