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  1. melsawaf

    HighRise Building - Columns turn into walls

    Dears I have a High-rise building have columns in some at perimeter that turn to walls in residential upper floors and some of these walls are not concentric with the lower columns. (See attached photo) How to consider this case in ETABS model...
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    ETABS_Seismic Load pattern

    Dears I`m using ETABS 16 and defining EQ load pattern as shown in attached photo (6 steps), My question is how ETABS deal with this MULTI STEPS - load pattern in combination like ( 0.9D + 1.0...
  3. melsawaf

    Occupancy Catogory

    Dears If i have one site contains a Police Station building and Apartment building and distance between them approximately 4 m or less shall i consider occupancy category IV for all buildings located in site or near to the Police station?
  4. melsawaf

    Temperature on Concrete Building

    Dears Is there any recommendations in ACI telling when to use thermal analysis on concrete building.
  5. melsawaf

    Expansion Joint

    hi I have concrete grade beams carrying steel fence , is there any code provisions for expansion joint spacing ?
  6. melsawaf

    Design of Noeprismatic section

    Dears Is Etabs design nonprismatic section ? because when designing a message appears " error design ..... "
  7. melsawaf

    Pipes Penetration in Concrete Beam

    Dears, I have a concrete beam with 200mm width and pipe sleeve of diam 50mm shall go through this beam vertically - Reinforcement for this beam is 2 dia 16 , so as per code ACI318 i have to achieve cover 40 mm to stirrups and 20 mm to main RFT, for that purpose all my beams in the project...
  8. melsawaf

    ACI 530

    Dears i need a copy of ACI 530 latest version 2011 or 2014 .
  9. melsawaf

    Punching shear in footing

    dears Is there a ref. for excluding stress under footing from column reaction when computing actual punching shear stress ??? Prokon do that ASDIP do not do that I need a reference for that exclude.
  10. melsawaf

    Temperature Consideration

    Dears Is there any recommendations in ACI telling when to use thermal analysis on concrete building. for example , i have a small villa 15m X 15m shall i do thermal analysis or not ?
  11. melsawaf

    Crack Width Check for foundation

    Dear all I have a strip footing with membrane waterproofing,seawater level is under the footing by 0.2 m . Which allowable ic ACI224 table 4.1 to be considered 0.15 for sea water or 0.41 for protective membrane ??
  12. melsawaf

    ASCE7-10_Wind speed

    Dears I have a comment from a str Reviewer in royal commission in KSA about the wind speed used in Etabs model with ASCE7-10 he is talking about factored wind speed , anybody have information concerning this iisue ????
  13. melsawaf

    ASCE 7-05 Response Spectrum analysis

    Dears I usually use static analysis in my work but i have a question Is there a must to use response spectrum analysis in seismic design category A in ASCE???
  14. melsawaf

    Walls Buckling in ETABS

    Dears Does Etabs calculate buckling for walls or not ??
  15. melsawaf

    Walls in ACI318

    Dears - Is there any provisions for vertical members whether to consider it wall or column ?? i mean ratio of height to width or length ??
  16. melsawaf

    Importing Load combinations from ETABS 2013 to SAFE12

    dears i have more than 200 load combinations in Etabs model and i need to export these combinations from Etabs into safe , anybody can help me ................urgent please .
  17. melsawaf

    Pedestal Mounted concrete tanks

    i need to add sloshing effect on tank as per ACI 350.3-06 , anybody please help me.
  18. melsawaf

    Free standing Stair

    hello everbody i need to design a free standing stair for the first time anybody can help me please ??
  19. melsawaf

    Design of columns in ETABS 9.7.4 Vs 13.1.5

    in Design coulmn with 9.7.4 and make min ecc (yes or no ) as per attachment, there is no difference between them. while in v 13.1.5 when it is (yes) the rft ratio of column jumps to 8 % instead of 1.5% anyone tried this new etabs version ...
  20. melsawaf

    IBC2012 1604.3.6 Deflection limits

    i. For cantilever members, l shall be taken as twice the length of the cantilever. Any experienced man can explain that note ????????

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