@Seth
I am designing both ETABS and Ram for design strip and checking stresses on Service load .
I checked deflection and moment due to dead load only . There is a difference. I believe it is due to analysis mesh and how design strips average forces and then design the slab in both forces...
@BAtired , to do it manually . I need to do equalient frame method to get Moment at column strip and I am afraid it won't be close to finite element method analysis especially the slab I am studying is not a typical one for using equalivent frame method .
@agent666
I didn't set any cracknig modifiers to Ram or Etabs . It can be modified ,but I let them all equal to 1 as default .
what I noticed is deformation due to dead load a bit different . defelction at mid span is 35 mm at Ram concept ,but 26 mm in Etabs . and of course negative moment at...
Greetings,
I usually use Ram concept for post tension slab design . However , I tried to make a verification model by creating same model in ETABS and check results.
Tendon forces are calculated the same in both Ram and Etabs . I made same identical design strip layout in Ram and Etabs . but...
Is there any prestressed (post tension software program that supports APIs) . Unfortunately , Ram concept doesn't support API same also for ADAPT apparently . Do you have any idea of such a software program that does design for post tension slabs and supports APIs ?
I want to use max/avg story displacement thatis shown in display tables and if it is more than 1.2 for response specturm case . I change the diaphram eccentricity for each floor by Ax valye * length of dipaghram perendicular to direction of force .
I am tackling this issue by using database...
I am trying to change the scale factor of response spectrum to be 100 % of base reactions of equavlient static in both x& y direction using APIs in Python
I managed to extract base reaction from spec and equavlient static in both directions . I am stuck in getting scale factor already in...
Hello rscassar,
I made a progress in the API script . I managed to get length of all columns and area ,but I have one problem for model.PropFrame.GetRectangle("ConcCol")
function . It only gets width ,depth of the name of section column in function . I want to get (width,depth) of all of...
Thanks rscassar for your response .
after the reading the example , I maaaged to open the model and run it by API .
I will start to see those functions you mentioned and see how it works .
I let you know how it did go with me .
I am starting to use ETABS API with Python . I need to extract concrete quantites volume for frames elements (beams&columns). I believe I need to access to area of of all concrete elements and multiply by length or height ? I am not sure how to start with that in API . can somebody help or...