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MasterSeries Webinar: Best Practices for Modelling Reinforced Concrete Transfer Slabs to EC2
If you missed the live session, you can watch the full webinar on YouTube here:
📌 What You'll Learn in This Webinar
This session provides a detailed breakdown of transfer slab design, covering:
✔ How to set up an FE surface for transfer slabs – defining boundaries, openings, loading conditions, materials, and attached beams.
✔ Meshing best practices – using stiff regions, refining mesh around column heads and shear walls, and setting mesh densities.
✔ Graphical FE analysis outputs – interpreting contour plots and verifying results.
✔ Linear shear checks and punching shear checks – comparing FE shear forces method vs. Eurocode method.
✔ Guidance from IStructE’s Design of Transfer Slabs – applying best practices in real-world projects.
✔ New Features in MasterKey: Concrete Slab Design – latest updates to streamline the design process.
✔ Live Q&A with Lead Developer Dr. Martin O’Gara – expert insights into software functionality and modelling accuracy.
📜 Key Resources & Publications
To help you apply these techniques in your own projects, here are some essential references discussed in the webinar:
📘 Guidance Documents
🔹 Design of Transfer Slabs – IStructE
🔹 How to Design Reinforced Concrete Flat Slabs using Finite Element Analysis
📖 MasterSeries Technical Manuals
🔹 MasterFrame Finite Element Analysis & Slab Design
🔹 MasterKey Concrete Slab Design
✍️ Technical Notes & Best Practices
🔹 Finite Element Analysis - Verifying Results
🔹 FE Models – Span/Depth Limits for Thick Elements
🔹 FE Meshing – Best Practice
🏗️ CROSS Safety Reports on Modelling Issues
🔹 Concern Over Modelling of Concrete Frame Buildings for Construction Stage
🔹 Unconservative Design of Flat Slabs Due to Software Modelling Issues
⏰ Webinar Timecodes
For easy navigation, use these timestamps to jump to key sections of the webinar:
00:00 Webinar Introduction and Agenda
02:05 MasterSeries Ecosystem and Modules
03:40 References to Resources, Guidance and Publications
06:00 What are Transfer Slabs?
08:28 Set up of the FE Surfaces - Boundaries, Openings, Loading, Materials, Attached Beams, Edge/Support Conditions
14:05 Meshing Settings - Stiff Regions, Default Mesh Sizes, Local Mesh Refinements for Column Heads and Shear Walls
21:30 Analysis and Graphical Analysis Results - Contour Outputs and
24:45 Linear Shear Check using Line Section Diagrams
28:40 New Features to the Concrete Slab Design Module
31:40 Punching Shear Checks and Comparison between FE Shear Forces Method vs Eurocode Method
37:50 Linear Shear Checks for Transfer Slabs using The Institution of Structural Engineer's (IStructE) Design of Transfer Slabs Guidance
45:05 Q&A's and Commentary from Lead Developer Dr. Martin O'Gara
54:45 MasterSeries Modules and Outro
Final Thoughts
This webinar provides practical insights into modelling reinforced concrete transfer slabs with finite element analysis. By combining FE shear force checks, EC2 punching shear verification, and best practices from IStructE guidance, engineers can improve accuracy and efficiency in slab design.
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