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Tie
    T he CAST
program is being
developed to
provide both students and
practitioners with a graphical
  design tool that makes the
 In
the above figure, STM shape that is adopted for design the double corbel is shown. design pro...
To illustrate in more details all components of this STM constructed by CAST, the
following info is provided below. Double Corbel
Design using CAST
(Part 2)
D-Region Boundary:    In the above
A closed, non-intersecting polygon that defines the geometry of figure, STM shape
that is adopted for
the structure.
design the double corbel is
There are two types of D-Region Boundaries: Outer Boundary shown. To illustrate in more
(Perimeter) and Inner Boundary (for openings). details all components of thi...
You are allowed to create only one Outer Boundary, but you can
Strut-and-Tie Model (STM)
create as many Inner Boundaries as you want.
T he STM is based on the lower-
Because there is only one Outer Boundary that should exist in your bound theory of limit analysis. In
model and the region inside the Outer Boundary represents the the STM, the complex flow of

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concrete continuum, you are not allowed to copy, cut, or remove internal forces in the D-Region
it from your model once you create it. However, you are surely under c...
allowed to change the
positions of the Boundary Corners. You are
Double Corbel Design using CAST
also allowed to add and remove Boundary Corners as you wish.
(Part 1)
D-Region Boundary Corner: Overview In this document, the
task of designing a double corbel
Intersection of two Boundary Edges. is completed to illustrate how
D-Region Boundary Edge: the CAST Design Tool (Version
0.9.1...
Line connecting two Boundary Corners.
Place for STM Nodes that possess Bearing Plates, Point Loads, or Flood Mitigation in
Point Supports. Thailand
  Past several
Strut-and-Tie Model: months, provinces
Internal truss in the D-Region. in Thailand are hit
by severe floods,
Consists of STM Elements interconnected at STM Nodes. affecting numerous people,
STM Element: company, industry, and
agricultural parts....
Component of Strut-and-Tie Model.
STM Elements can be in the form of Struts (compressive STM STM Design Steps using CAST
Elements) or Ties (tensile STM Elements). T he design using CAST can be
summarized into five steps. They
STM Elements have Effective Widths, representing the extent of
are illustrated in Figure 1 below.
idealized compressive stress fields (for Struts) or tensile stress Figure 1    Summary of Design
fields (for Ties). Procedur...
STM Node:
Introduction to
Component of Strut-and-Tie Model. Finite Element
Place where one or more STM Elements meet, also called a nodal Analysis (FEA)
zone. Since this blog is
for promoting civil
There is only one STM Element allowed to frame into an STM Node engineers to built
having Bearing Plates, Point Loads, or Point Supports. the infrastructures using
technologies, I am posting
Stabilizer: various of the current techno...
STM Element whose member force is zero.
Stabilizers are not included in the nodal zone construction. Historical Background of Strut-
and-Tie Model (STM)
Stabilizers are required to avoid ill-conditioned structure stiffness T he idea of the strut-and-tie
matrix in truss analysis. method came from the truss
You must always create a stable Strut-and-Tie Model; Stabilizers analogy method introduced
independently by Ritter and
are identified by CAST during truss analysis.
Mörch in the early 1900s f...

After you are familiar with all components given above, it is time to show STM Design Steps
you steps by steps how to construct STM using CAST. Please follow the T he design process using STM
instruction in the next post. For the previous post about designing of double involves five major steps
described below. These steps
corbel using CAST (part1) please see here.
are illustrated in Figure 1 using
the design example of...

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