I am designing an irregular combined base. The foundation supports multiple walls and a column. The code that we use (South African) allows for shear reinforcement to be designed for the shear force a distance 2d from the face of the support, d being the effective depth. This is straight forward...
The architect wants a wall that has a recess at between two slab levels. The bottom meter high of the wall is a 300mm thick cavity brickwork wall, the middle meter high is a 220mm brickwork wall and the top meter is 300mm thick cavity wall again.
I am trying to figure out the best way to...
We've followed a pretty standard method at designing flat slab building columns - Pin all columns and the cores take all the lateral loads. Unbalanced moments are only considered for punching shear design.
I have a different case - a three story building with no cores. The columns are to be...
