Introduction to Diamonds Page 05 Concrete design Page 12 Steel and timber design Page 13 Connection design Page 14 Diamonds design packs Page 16 Module Work space Page 18 Module 2D Bars & 3D Bars Page 20 Module 2D Slabs, 2D Plates & 3D Plates Page 22 Module 1st order & 2nd order analysis Page 24 Module Dynamic & Seismic analysis Page 26 Module Concrete design Page 28 Module Steel design & Timber design Page 30 Module Steel connection design Page 32 Module Smart reporter Page 34 Customer story Page 36 About BuildSoft Page 38. Diamonds A n engine er’s be s t choic e Diamonds is an easy-to-use finite element software for the analysis and design of frames, beam grids, slabs, plates, rafts and complete 3D structures in steel, concrete and timber. Being a structural engineer, Diamonds will be your ideal tool to easily define model geometry, boundary conditions and loads, and finally analyse the in colors represented results. The graphic input does not only mean an enormous save of time, but you also lower the risk of making mistakes, thanks to the permanent visual control over the model. Your learning curve is short - guaranteed. Model geometry Diamonds offers you access to a wide range of tools which con- siderably speed up the drawing work for a 2D or 3D structure. You start by drawing the 2D model on a fixed or variable draw- ing grid, directly on the screen or by introducing node coor- dinates with your numeric keypad.

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You define the axes for a frame structure in a front view, the contour lines for a slab in a top view or for a wall in a side view. On selecting a series of lines in one plane, Diamonds will create all possible plates from which the contour is composes by lines out of this selection. You can always make. Properties of plate number: 1 Local axes Local xz-axes orientation n,0 Local y-ais orientation ber. ) and a cross section. By default, Diamonds will consider all plates isotropic and bearing in two (perpendicular) directions. Besides that, it is possible to calcu- late a other configurations.

With Diamonds, you can calculate orthotopic plates, like pre-slab floors, ribbed slabs, waffle slabs, voided slabs, and slabs bearing in a single direction. These cross sections are easily defined by means of a limited number of physical parameters. Ments should behave with respect to each other in.

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