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why SAP2000 design concrete columns with too high area of rebar?

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sepultura

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May 6, 2006
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Please, I want to know, why SAP2000 design concrete columns with too high area of rebar?
I am designing columns of reinforced concrete and I made a simple model with SAP2000, and the area rebar is too high

for this characteristic, SAP design with more than P=0.03
f´c=210 kg/cm2
fy=4200 kg/cm2
Mu=4.0 t-m
Pu=100.0 t
b=0.25 m
h=0.50 m
 
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