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About Concept’s detailing calculations

Two sets of design results are calculated in RAM Concept - With span detailing and Without span detailing.

Without span detailing simply considers the results without extending any reinforcement for span detailing. This is termed the raw reinforcement.

With Span Detailing considers the results considering the detailed reinforcement as a minimum requirement.

Some other modifications to the "span detailed" summary diagram are done. The developed requirements are removed from inside the support regions (there is still the requirement that the reinforcement is developed at the face of the support). Also, for cantilevers, the span detailed requirements are removed from the last cross section to the end of the span. Also, in the summary reinforcement, at the end of each pass an assumed amount of developed reinforcement is calculated from the AsRaw requirements and the length available for development, and applied as a minimum AsDev requirement in each cross section.