

Revit 2023 adds library-based steel connection design automation features. Library-based Connection Design Automation This new feature will enable you to model rebars in Revit faster and easier, increasing your productivity in detailing concrete structures. Free form bars can be aligned to a destination host or face. Free form rebars can be propagated in a similar fashion to shape driven rebars. The new adaptive propagation features work for free form rebars, too. That’s the power of adaptive propagation.

These concrete host elements need not be identical for the newly created bars to match their new host. When you are working on a design that has similar concrete elements, you can quickly and accurately copy shape driven rebar from one concrete host to another. Revit 2023 introduces adaptive propagation features for rebar to increase your productivity in detailing concrete structures. Raising public awareness on such low damage design options is important to influence stakeholders' decision for the adoption of such design strategies in earthquake-prone cities.It’s springtime which means we get new versions of Autodesk software! There are some great reasons to move to Revit Structure 2023 and here are our top 5: Adaptive Propagation for Rebar The local engineers told that the architects now intentionally wants to expose such technologies as people want to see them and feel safer. When I visited the city in 2016, I have seen many buildings that incorporated seismic protection technologies (Images 2, 3, 4). This led to the use of low damage design solutions more frequently in Christchurch during the rebuilding of the city. Image 1 shows the site of one collapsed building (CTV), where the empty chairs are placed to honor 115 people lost their life in this building.ĭespite successful avoidance of collapse in buildings designed with the modern seismic code, over 60% of concrete buildings with 3 + stories were demolished after the quake in the city center due to extensive damage, causing huge economic losses and social impacts. Only two buildings collapsed during 2010/2011 earthquake sequences in Christchurch, New Zealand. Yet, the key is to increase public demand for such designs. The resilient design strategies include a variety of options such as energy dissipation devices, seismic isolation systems, or seismic dampers, and rocking walls and frames. However, the developers might prioritize initial construction cost over enhanced seismic performance. Design of structures using earthquake-resilient technologies, some of which I discussed in the analysis below, can provide many benefits.
