In the American design of a concrete beam, you are able to turn off the use of Shear Reinforcement because the concrete will take the shear load. See here:
In the European design, there is no way to turn off the shear stirrups that I can see.
Thanks again for your message @Msouth . According to the EN 1992.1.1 Cl. 6.2.1 (4) minimum shear reinforcement is always required, please see below. That’s why we always consider stirrups.
I hope that clarifies!
It would be really helpful if there were a flag for omitting the shear reinforcing. The next line after you have highlighted allows the omission of shear stirrups. Without it, it causes a lot of issues with reviewers because they see shear reinforcement in the calculation and not in the drawings.
Hi @ZaneWells thanks for clarifying. I understand that you’re using the beam calculator to design slabs or other elements “where transverse redistribution of loads is possible” or “member of minor importance”, am I correct? This specific module is for Concrete Beams, so that’s the reason why we don’t allow users to design without shear reinforcement. We would have to create another module for general flexure design or slabs that would not consider stirrups by default. Cheers 