Stringer Panel Method: a discrete model to project structural reinforced concrete elements

摘要

In this work applications are presented for the design of reinforced concrete structures using the Stringer-Panel Method (S&PM); a discrete model which divided a structure into elementary subsystem working in tension or compression (stringers) and in membrane shear stress (panels). Stringers are dimensioned for normal forces, panels for shear forces. A simple beam and a squat cantilever is studied, and is shown as the S&PM is able to get the right global and local results in this two antithetical cases.