The Turkish engineering community has recently witnessed severe legal repercussions, including the arrest of a civil engineer for illegally using a manipulated ideCAD license, resulting in approximately 200 buildings being constructed non-compliant with seismic regulations. Such tools provide unverified calculations, lack critical updates, and expose the engineer to professional and legal liability.
For heavily cracked columns or shear walls, you can model reinforced concrete jacketing in ideCAD. The software evaluates the combined cross-section capacity of the old cracked core and the new uncracked jacket. idecad structural crack
[ w_k = s_r,max \cdot (\varepsilon_sm - \varepsilon_cm) ] lack critical updates