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    ACI dowel action in shear transfer

    You are right. But I fail to see what K1Ac has to do with dowel action, although it is not specific to it. It seems to me that K1Ac is for cohesion only. @le99, your first image is how I understand dowel action, which means the shear resistance should have dowel bar flexural & shear capacity...
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    ACI dowel action in shear transfer

    Also, it says "These values of K1 apply to both monolithically cast concrete and to concrete cast against hardened concrete with a rough surface, as defined in 11.6.9." I wonder why dowel action has to do with the roughness of interface?
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    ACI dowel action in shear transfer

    I believe shear friction and dowel action are two different things. (I am not talking about the shear friction here). My point being dowel action should have to do with the flexural & shear capacity of dowel bars, not just concrete compression, as is expressed AcK1 in the above expression.
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    ACI dowel action in shear transfer

    In ACI 318-11 commentary, I have found the following in regard to dowel action in shear transfer, which is removed from ACI 318-19, in addition to shear friction. However, I am not getting why dowel action is expressed as AcK1 which has nothing to do with dowel bars? (I don't have reference...
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    Should I crack these transfer walls?

    Yes it is. Walls are in-situ tho. Also, I don't think precast walls means pin connection especially in plane? The dowel bar will still give you moment to transfer.
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    Should I crack these transfer walls?

    The uncracked walls & slabs model from the very first picture is a simplified 2D model without considering construction sequences. When you design your slab in this way, do you take the axial load of walls above from staged construction sequence? If so, is it really safe to ignore the moment...
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    Should I crack these transfer walls?

    I did have run a 3D model analysis with staged construction sequence as I mentioned. It does reduce the moment but in some case the moment is still large. Yes reducing the stiffness of walls alone will reduce the moment but what if we crack the wall & slab at the same time? The moment might...
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    Should I crack these transfer walls?

    It is a non-seismic zone. I can pin the column in the analysis but my concern is that in real world it will not follow this assumption - there will be moment at the ends of the columns. Can we ignore this moment and why? Just to clarify that using vierendeel truss to design the transfer slab is...
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    Should I crack these transfer walls?

    The out-of-plane thickness is 200mm. I guess you can call a 200x1000mm either wall or column. But even if I reduce the wall to 200x600 the moment is still quite large
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    Should I crack these transfer walls?

    Below is a section of the transfer structure I am working on. The transfer slab is going to be 400mm PT. I am getting large moment at the bottom of internal transferring walls as you can see from the picture below. Above is a 2D model but I have created a full 3D model and considered the...
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    Moment redistribution - Concrete Continuous Beams

    I am still a bit confused. I have this from CSI website where it says "Walls are generally not designed for out-of-plane bending to avoid excessive longitudinal reinforcement. In this case, use a small modifier say 0.1 for m11, m22 and m12 so numerical instabilities could be avoided. "...
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    Moment redistribution - Concrete Continuous Beams

    Thanks everyone. @centondollar What I tried to say by "statically determinate" is that say a simply support beam, there is no moment distribution involved. A bit off topic but I am wondering do you reduce your out-of-plane stiffness of RC walls that connect to RC slabs to say 0.1 or even less...
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    Moment redistribution - Concrete Continuous Beams

    Understand the total of WL2/8 as a whole will not change. I guess what I tried to say what I initiated this was, say use your example, I have different reinforcement for span and ends and if I design to the elastic case with ql^2/24 for my design positive moment, and when it cracks over the...
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    Moment redistribution - Concrete Continuous Beams

    Okay thanks. If I am not mistaken, as long as the beam doesn't become statically determinate (ie not hinge generated at supports) we don't need to consider moment redistribution for positive moment because once it exceeds the MCr+ it will redistribute back to elsewhere?
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    Moment redistribution - Concrete Continuous Beams

    Given that for continuous concrete beams the moment generated at the supports will normally exceed the cracking moment Mcr of the beam, isn't it a must to increase the design bending moment & corresponding reinforcement at mid spans generated from a elastic frame analysis? Can anyone please...

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