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This document summarizes the cba software which calculates member forces and support reactions of continuous beams. It can be run from the command line or has a graphical user interface. The command line version takes input files defining beam properties, constraints, and loads to calculate results files with maximum/minimum forces and displacements. The GUI allows interactive definition of beam properties and provides graphical output of results. The software is open source and distributed under GPL license.

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This document summarizes the cba software which calculates member forces and support reactions of continuous beams. It can be run from the command line or has a graphical user interface. The command line version takes input files defining beam properties, constraints, and loads to calculate results files with maximum/minimum forces and displacements. The GUI allows interactive definition of beam properties and provides graphical output of results. The software is open source and distributed under GPL license.

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cba 0.3.6 07/2010 G.P.L. -------------------------------------calculates member forces and support reactions of a continuous beam files: cba [cba.

exe] binary cba-gtk [wxCBA.exe] binary (gui) materials.xml material database (gui) sections.xml section database (gui) readme.txt licence.txt /src /src/gui usage: ./cba [cba.exe] -i inputfile [-o outputfile -p plotfile] -i inputfile textfile, has to have the following format: SPANS lengths of spans INERTIA moments of inertia per span (optional, default i s 1.0) ELASTICITY modulus of elasticity for the beam (optional, default is 1.0) CONSTRAINTS constraints def/rot per support (optional, d efault is -1 0) def = support displacement rot = support rotation -1 supported 0 not supported >0 spring LOAD load matrix: span type perm live start len span = number of span to be loaded load type = 1 - uniformly distributed load 2 - point load 3 - partial udl 4 - moment load 5 - trapezoidal load (c=0 triangular) 6 - partial triangular load (c<0 ascendi ng, c>0 descending) perm = value of permanent load (can be zero) live = value of live load (can be zero) start = start for load type 3,5-6, or point for load type 2/4 len = length for load type 3,5-6 (can be negativ e for lt6) FACTORS load factors perm/live (optional, default is 1.0 1.0 [1.0 0.0]) you can also set the load factors for disburdeni ng loads, this would be e.g. 1.35 1.5 1.35 0.0 -o outputfile (optional) - result file, contains the max/min results per span this file g.p.l. source code source code (gui)

-p plotfile (optional) - result file, contains 7 results along the beam for graphical output:

x, Mmax, Mmin, Vmax, Vmin (with load factors) dmax, dmin (characteristic) you can use this data with your favourite spreadsheet ap plication or a graph-plotter like gnuplot, this would be for "-p r esults.dat" and the moments: plot "results.dat" using 1:($2*(-1)) title 'Mmax' with l ines, \ "results.dat" using 1:($3*(-1)) title 'Mmin' with l ines example: continuous steel beam (hea200), 2 spans (5.8m, 4.2m) permanent load 10.0 kN/m, live load 5.0 kN/m first create a textfile example.txt: SPANS 5.8 4.2 INERTIA 3.69e-5 3.69e-5 ELASTICITY 2.1e8 CONSTRAINTS -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 LOAD 1 1 10.0 5.0 0 0 LOAD 2 1 10.0 5.0 0 0 FACTORS 1.35 1.5 then run: cba -i example.txt -o results.txt -p results.dat 2 files should have been created: results.txt with max/min results (move on with the desig n) results.dat with results along the beam, which form the graph usage (gui): linux: ./cba-gtk (wxWidgets-2.8 runtime libraries have to be installed) win32: wxCBA.exe (there is no installer, youll only need this file and the datab ases) the small user interface is powered by wxwidgets library and covers almost all o f the features of cbeam_class, use the commandline tool if you want different moments of inertia, higher precis ion or batch processing on the first run a settings file (settings.xml) will be created in ~./cba [win32: settings.xml will be created in the folder you run wxCBA.exe in] you can copy the database files (sections.xml, materials.xml) to this folder, or store them elsewhere and change the location in settings compiling: cmd: g++ cba_main.cpp cbeam_class.cpp -o cba[.exe] gui: should be easily compiled using an ide that includes wxwidgets library (e.g . code::blocks, wxDev-C++) there are makefiles provided in /src for linux, try make (you will need wxwidgets-dev libraries for the gui) before you type make install, check if the paths in the makefile fit your needs

credits: Colin Caprani (www.colincaprani.com) - well done sourcecode cba.m (octave/mathca d - gpl) wxWidgets - great framework changelog: 0.3.1 0.3.2 0.3.3 0.3.4 ) 0.3.5 0.3.6 09/2009 released at sourceforge 09/2009 added output of plot data (gui) added user dialog for creating a new beam (gui) 11/2009 added small graphical output/ printout (gui) removed solve/save button and plot data (gui) 12/2009 added system graph, loadtypes, restraints and load factors (gui fixed 2 bugs in cbeam_class 02/2010 added material/section database (gui) 07/2010 added two more loadtypes fixed bug in cbeam_class (vertical nodal loads for lt3/4)

comments: feel free to write your comments/suggestions to pierrot <[email protected]>

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