Tendon Action New/Modify/Copy
Definition or modification of actions for particular tendons.
The series of actions, which comprise one set of tendon actions, must belong to the same Stress label (see below).
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| Stress/Release |
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| Type | All prestressing/releasing actions listed above can be defined by a value in terms of a force or a factor.
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| Wedge/Dev.L |
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| Tendon | The tendon (number) where the actions should be applied to can be entered or any existing tendon can be selected from the drop-down menu. | ||||||||
| Number of tendons | After choosing a tendon the number of the tendons in the profile will be shown (only informatively - not editable). | ||||||||
| Optimize | Automatic optimization of the applied pre-stressing stress in a way to be in accordance with the stress limits as defined in Structure > Tendon > New/Modify . Only available for stress actions PREL/PRER and input by Factor. When activating this option the input of Fact. of SIGP will get inactive and the respective optimized value will be evaluated automatically and informatively be displayed. |
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| Tendon force / Fact. of SIGP | The value must be input in accordance with the settings of the radio buttons Force / Factor as explained above. | ||||||||
| Stress label | Name of the stress label describing the series of tendon actions (max. 24 characters). The stress label is referred to within the schedule action Stress (Schedule > Stages > Schedule Actions) in order to perform a certain set of tendon actions in the respective stage where the tendon is stressed. |
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| Description | Descriptive text for the selected Action (max. 80 characters) |