Slender beams (concrete beam: EC2)

Tekla Structural Designer
Modified: 21 Mar 2025
2025
Tekla Structural Designer

Slender beams (concrete beam: EC2)

Second order effects associated with lateral instability may be ignored if beams are within the geometric limits given by the following;

L0t

50*bcomp/(h/bcomp)1/3

and
h/bcomp
2.5
where
L0t
  =  

distance between torsional restraints, taken in Tekla Structural Designer as the distance between faces of supports

h
  =  
total overall depth of the beam at the centre of L0t
bcomp
  =  
width of the compression flange of the beam ( = bw for rectangular sections and beff for flanged beams)
   

If either of the above checks fail then a Warning is displayed.

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