Create general walls

Tekla Structural Designer
2021
Tekla Structural Designer

Create general walls

You can create meshed general walls in level, frame, or structure views. For detailed information on creating general walls, see the following instructions.

Material type

The Grade lists all the available General materials in the Materials database under the current head code.
Note: Care should be taken when choosing the grade, as some general materials in the database may not be appropriate for meshed walls. Meshed walls resist loads in all directions and isotropic stiffness properties are assumed.
If the grade you want to use is not listed, you can open the Materials dialog and add the grade to the database, taking care to first select the General material type as shown below.

Geometric rules

  • Meshed walls are defined as quadrilaterals in a single plane that can be vertical or sloping, (unlike mid-pier concrete walls which must be rectangular in a vertical plane).
  • Openings are permitted in meshed walls.
  • The alignment and offsets in the wall properties are not structurally significant as they have no affect on the solver elements that are formed in the solver model.
  • Concrete meshed walls can be included in cores, General meshed walls cannot.

Sub-division of meshed walls

Each wall object is split into separate panels only at those construction levels where an element or slab attaches to the wall. At the levels where the wall has been split, wall beam elements are also inserted.

Create rectangular walls in a level view

  1. On the Model tab, click the arrow below General Wall.
  2. Go to the Properties window.
  3. Ensure the Material Type is set to General, then use the Grade property to select the general material type.
  4. Adjust the top and base level for the wall, if necessary.
  5. Adjust the remaining properties, such as the wall thickness, if necessary.
  6. In the model, click the start point of the wall.
    Tip: If you are using a point along a member, do the following:
    1. Click the member to view its points.

    2. Click the point that you want to use, or type the distance from the start of the member to the desired point.

  7. Click the end point of the wall.

    Tekla Structural Designer creates the wall.

Create rectangular walls in a frame or structure view

Note: In order to define a wall in a frame or structure view, you must have already defined the construction levels between which the wall will run, and the grid points between which it will lie.
  1. On the Model tab, click the arrow below General Wall.
  2. Go to the Properties window.
  3. Ensure the Material Type is set to General, then use the Grade property to select the general material type.
  4. Ensure the Rectangular property is selected.
  5. Adjust the remaining properties, such as the wall thickness, if necessary.
  6. Click a point to define a corner of the wall.
  7. Click a point to define the opposite corner.
    Tekla Structural Designer creates the wall between the selected two points.

Create quadrilateral walls in a frame or structure view

Note: In order to define a wall in a frame or structure view, you must have already defined the construction levels between which the wall will run, and the grid points between which it will lie.
  1. On the Model tab, click the arrow below General Wall.
  2. Go to the Properties window.
  3. Ensure the Rectangular property is unselected.
  4. Ensure the Material Type is set to General, then use the Grade property to select the general material type.
  5. Adjust the top and base level for the wall, if necessary.
  6. Adjust the remaining properties, such as the wall thickness, if necessary.
  7. Click the point where the base of the wall should start.
  8. Click the point where the base of the wall should end.
  9. Click the point where the top of the wall should start.
  10. Click the point where the top of the wall should end.
    Tekla Structural Designer creates the wall between the selected four points.
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