Master Your Design - Prestressed Beam with Openings

One of the key challenges in designing beams is accommodating openings for mechanical and service systems. These openings can introduce discontinuities and stress concentrations that must be carefully analyzed and reinforced to maintain structural integrity. Traditional methods often fall short when dealing with multiple or irregular openings, especially when considering serviceability.

This is where the Compatible Stress Field Method (CSFM) offers a significant advancement. The CSFM ensures compatibility between internal force distribution and strain fields, allowing engineers to accurately model and assess the performance of prestressed concrete elements—including complex geometries and discontinuity regions—with enhanced efficiency. 

Join our free summer series webinar and learn how to use CSFM-based application IDEA StatiCa Detail to properly model and code-check a prestressed beam with openings.

You will learn how to define the geometry of the beam and pre-tensioned tendons, reinforcements as well as loadings. We will go through with the interpretation of results and generate a customizable report.

Master your design webinar series

Master your design is a series of five short concrete design webinars for (not only) beginners to get quickly familiarized with the program. By covering the most common example, users will learn how to code-check different concrete structures quickly and safely using the IDEA StatiCa Detail application.

There are five webinars with relevant content:

12 June 2025 - Utilizing Reinforcement in Anchor Design

10 July 2025 - Master your design - Concrete Walls

31 July 2025 - Master your design - Pier Caps

20 August 2025 - Master your design - Prestressed Beam with Openings

11 September 2025 - Master your design - Precast and Infrastructure Beams