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Technical Reference
3.4 Design Parameters
The program contains a number of parameters which are needed to perform design by the ACI code. Default parameter values have been selected such that they are frequently used numbers for conventional design requirements. These values may be changed to suit the particular design being performed. Table 3.1 is a complete list of the available parameters and their default values. Section 5.51.2 of this manual describes the commands required to provide these parameters in the input file. For example, the values of SFACE and EFACE (parameters that are used in shear design), the distances of the face of supports from the end nodes of a beam, are assigned values of zero by default but may be changed depending on the actual situation. Similarly, beams and columns are designed for moments directly obtained from the analyses without any magnification. The factor MMAG may be used for magnification of column moments. For beams, the user may generate load cases which contain loads magnified by the appropriate load factors.

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Design Parameters

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* These values must be provided in the current unit system being used. ** When using metric units for ACI design, provide values for these parameters in actual 'mm' units instead of the bar number. The following metric bar sizes are available: 6 mm, 8 mm, 10 mm, 12 mm, 16 mm, 20 mm, 25 mm, 32 mm, 40 mm, 50 mm and 60 mm. *** NSECTION should have no member list since it applies to all members. The minimum value allowed is 12, the maximum is 20. If more than one NSECTION entered, then highest value is used.

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