Using the Auditor for guidance on post-tensioning
Certain codes limit the service stresses and designers are required to comply with the limits. The Auditor displays advice on how much additional post-tensioning strand is required in a design strip to satisfy certain code clauses.
This information is accessible from many plans, but the instructions below are for using the Service Rule Set Design.
- Choose Layers > Rule Set Designs > Service Design > Status Plan
- Select the Auditor tool ().
- Click on the plan at the design strip cross-section which has failed a stress criterion and for which you require guidance.
- Scroll to the text bordered by two lines of asterisks (top and bottom) near the bottom of the audit.
- Open all items
- Search for the string "SUGGESTIONS" using the Report Viewer Find tool
If the maximum tensile stress is within code then the search string will not be found. If the calculated concrete tensile stresses exceed the allowable limit then the Auditor suggests the percentage increase in strand required to satisfy the stress limit.