For lateral design for residential structures, especially in ocean area, I often had a hug uplift like 8.k. Then I can spec proper anchor bolt, but I wonder how i can justify the footing size since 8 k is hug, but it will disappear through the entire structure. Would you suggest any better idea?
I think most of residential work is rather simple, so I used strucalc most and sometimes enercal. If I need to design something complicated, I used RISA-2D or 3D. Other free softwares like forte and others also sometimes is very useful, but they are only for their product. Recently I found...
