Dear Sir ,
Mr.johnbridge231
Fist of all thank you for your reply,I appreciate every word you wrote!
For point No 3) you said you will increase the thicness of the raft,but doing this will increase dead load,on the other hand if we increase the plan dimensions of the raft this will distribute...
hellow all
this is my first thread in this forum.
Iam using sap2000 to model a reinforced concrete elevated water tank.
1. should I apply stiffness reduction factors (m11=m22=m12=.25) for slab sections -this will reduce the moments considerably hence reduce areas of reinfocing steel.
2.The...
