I'm not that familiar with the dynamics of concrete slabs, however 32 Hz feels high to me for the lowest natural frequency of a concrete slab. That's some quick vibration! My gut would lean towards the 16Hz as well, but with no basis to back that up other than your data and my feel of concrete...
In addition to what goeasyon said, if you are running this as a static, linear elastic analysis and the loads are high enough and the walls are thin enough, this problem may need a non-linear solver. If the walls behave as membranes due to their thin nature, then solving in one step...
@drawoh,
My opinion on the FEA code is that a license shouldn't be required to write it. Licensure happens to protect the general public because without specialized training (the same training required to make them an engineer), they have no way of evaluating an Engineer's claim of competence...
Gaining accurate material data for simulations is also an expensive endeavor, particularly S-N curves for fatigue with enough samples for a proper statistical variability to be calculated. If a company has spent hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars of the years accurately characterizing...
First of all, failure theories are used in beam design for code based systems, however their application were done by the code writers in their investigation of what is safe. From there, along with testing they derived the limiting states and values that the codes use.
Additionally, I think...
You would have to specify the finish/treatment to get the desired coefficient of friction you want, and it would have to be maintained over the life of your structure to ensure it still exists should the design event happen. That's the case against it.
I showed this video to someone who made a claim they did it in a class at school with 40 people! I know the math works out that everyone is essentially carrying about 1 body weight on their legs, but I still can't picture a 40 person circle of this. It would look insane!
As has been said already, mass is a difficult choice to make. However, also consider this, mass generally lowers frequency. So if you're natural frequency fully loaded is high enough above the expected excitation frequency you're likely fine. If not, then it becomes a very difficult guessing game.
KD = F is the typical equation for a spring. If you make F = 1 you can get your spring displacement to be 1/D. If you do the equivalent of this but rather than applying a uniform load, apply a uniform pressure, you should then get what you are looking for.
Your going to have problems. You have 16kg of steel, supporting the weight of an F350 hanging from it. Just from gut, doesn't that seem off to you?
Add in that you've significantly passed the yield strength and I don't see any mention of stress-strain curves, or bilinear material models being...
Not a geotech here, but the load spreads as it goes deeper. This is due to a combination of the soil properties, friction, and fluid pressure if present. So the deeper you go, the more that load is spread over a larger area. That makes it feel like increased loads have very little impact and...
