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How to consider/find the area of longitudinal steel and stirrups (4 sided link with c/c distance) in 2d FEM model of RC beam/column in any software like OpenSeeS, STKO, etc for the layered shell element?

R the following right?

1. For L.Steel: X-area of one bar divided by spacing of bar along with thickness(width)?

2. For stirrups X-area of two legs of stirrups divided by the spacing along the length of the beam? But what about the horizontal portion of the stirrups??

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