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Temperature Page

Average temperature

The temperature load is applied according to AS 5100.2-2004 section 17 thermal effects.

SettingDescription
Uniform Consider uniform temperature load (Yes/No).
T min/max design Temperature ranges according to table 17.2(1) Shade air temperatures defined from General page/region tab.

Deferential temperature

SettingDescription
Gradient Consider temperature gradient (Yes/No).
Tpositive/negative Temperature at the surface of the deck is provided in AS5100.2-2004 figure 17.3. The negative temperature difference of vertical sunlight for concrete beam and slab should be -0.4 times of the positive temperature difference.

The drawing shows a Positive Vertical Temperature gradient in concrete superstructure.