Graphical method and database development for computer programming to reinforced concrete slab analysis and design

Abstract

This research was to apply graphical method as the input data combined with using database for developing reinforced concrete slab analysis and design. Visual Basic language was used for creating the GUI (graphic user interface) and coding and database file was used for storing data. The position of beam, column and slab can define by drawing on GUI and this program will automatic translate to be the distances for using as data in process of analysis and slab design. Results from analysis and design were compared with manual calculation that they are a litter bit error because of rounding error. Moreover, they can be more economically and more conveniently than results from VisStructure 4