GGU-STABILITY: "Partial factors, ..." menu item

If, using the "Editor 1/Analysis options" menu item, you have selected "EC 7" as applicable standard, the following dialog box appears:

Here you enter the partial factors, the values for psi(A) and the factor for the lock-off force of tension members.

In the "Default values" group box you can use the "To DIN 1054:2010" button to apply the partial safety factors of DIN 1054:2010 or EC 7 for the various load cases. Depending on the selection, the design situation is entered in the upper box and can be displayed in the General legend, if required ("Design situation text" check box, in the menu item "Editor 1/General legend"). The load case designations were altered for the EC 7 partial safety factor concept:

• Load Case 1 is now DS-P: Persistent Design Situation

• Load Case 2 is now DS-T: Transient Design Situation

• Load Case 3 is now DS-A: Accidental Design Situation

In addition, there is a seismic design situation (DS-E). In the DS-E design situation all partial factors = '1,0'.

It is also possible to select the partial safety factors compliant with Austrian standards using the "To ÖNORM EN 1997-1" button.

The partial factors for the design of structural elements (e.g. the concrete shell of a nail wall) can be entered using the menu item "Nail wall/Verifications/Safety".