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    Horizontal Trussing Threshold for Roof Diaphragm

    Not only that. On top of the sleeve are added 4 inches of slab with 10mm mesh poured right around the column (without any gap or membrane used), perhaps causing further fixity to the column. See: My hope 2 years ago was to fixed the column right above slabs so moments would start above slabs...
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    Horizontal Trussing Threshold for Roof Diaphragm

    Yes. They are 20mm stirrups..the footing floor is drilled so the 20mm bars can be inserted. see the following pics showing them in more details: Note the red arrow showing 20 means it's 20mm bars. The idea being that if the orginal column crushes and yet the particles are confined inside...
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    Horizontal Trussing Threshold for Roof Diaphragm

    The Engineer of Record is the president of the structural firm. Since they design 7 projects at a time.. half of them high-rise. The president didn't check all details.. for example.. he didn't know how many bars in my beam. But ok. I'd try to explain it to their design leader. Before the ground...
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    Horizontal Trussing Threshold for Roof Diaphragm

    The engineer on record said this problem is common in construction.. it occurs even on columns anywhere of 50-storey buildings. Once the epoxy company injected about 1 meters high of epoxy to a joint of a high rise. The designer on record said he forgot the concept of stress strain so just...
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    Bracing RC columns with Ibeams?

    I also need to brace my frames. I'm discussing with my engineers who haven't done any. What do you mean Kootk that the laterally restrained bracing member must be connected to a diaphragm? See the image below.. the red X brace is not part of the structure but my hope to prevent rotations of the...
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    Horizontal Trussing Threshold for Roof Diaphragm

    http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=395487 Kootk.. after learning more about interaction diagram and boundary conditions in columns from BAretired and how to derive the formulas. I think the safest is to retrofit braces frames, shear walls or even using stair shaft as lateral resisting...
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    Column Bending Stress

    I edited above. When looking at side view. Consider the concrete cover is 40mm.. stirrups is 10mm.. bars is 20mm.. void is really between 100 to 200mm so 0.2x0.5 would be a conservative figure for approximate computations. Earlier I was asking about moment magnification or p-delta. When there...
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    Column Bending Stress

    That's right. When looking at side view. Consider the concrete cover is 40mm.. stirrups is 10mm.. bars is 20mm.. void is really between 100 to 200mm.
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    Column Bending Stress

    Oh it was that misunderstanding about "before epoxy void" where you thought I was referring to prior to epoxy put.. but I was saying the position before epoxy void. But I understood that part now here you were mentioning about stress at point b where as you put it.. "stress at point B would have...
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    Column Bending Stress

    Oh no. This is bad news. My designers forgot the meaning of stress-strain curve so don't know the behavior of epoxy. I'll have to convince them by sharing the principles and computations I learnt so they can try to look into this. at what ratio for example is the moment right at zero so the...
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    Column Bending Stress

    Ah. When I said (before epoxy void). I was referring to before as in position.. not before as time :) Now I understood why you said there was no effect. I was reading about transformed section and kept thinking what you were thinking. Anyway. If you have time later, pls. go to the message above...
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    Column Bending Stress

    But at ultimate strength.. the concrete compressive block capacity is 0.85 fc' a b.. and if the fc' is changed to epoxy.. it compressive strength can become lesser.. so why did you say there is virtually no effect on ultimate strength. Also what do you mean by bending stress? I was thinking of...
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    Column Bending Stress

    Thanks for the relationship or formula. After reviewing trigonometry and geometry. I kinda derive it after a day and your paragraph solidified the cconcept. About the column subjected to pure moment with no axial component. Even on normal column with concrete. It's there too. . At balanced...
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    Column Bending angle and Failure Mode

    There is something odd about the interaction diagram. At balanced point and using statics and resultant.. Pb = 0.85fc'ab + As'fs' - Asfs And As'fs' is same value to AsFs but opposite reactions. In other words the opposite reaction literally cancel out. So at balanced point. How can you still...
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    Column Bending Stress

    Happy anniversary :) While you were celebrating and now while you were sleeping. I have used up a dozen papers trying to construct an interaction diagram of your column without concrete but with bars that is magically restrained from buckling and it seems it needs new formulas that don't have...

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