Hello everyone
To see SSI effects in design, I need to model a half-space soil medium under a mat footing slab instead of common simplified Winkler springs. I need to do it in ETABS by gap LINK elements as noted here:
https://wiki.csiamerica.com/display/kb/Soil-structure+interaction
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I use CSI SAFE 14 to design foundations usually. SAFE claims it can design foundations in different elevations, but it can't. So I need to know which software is able to design multi-level strip foundations?
In attachment I've provide a simple example to know what I'm talking about.
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Suppose that we have 3 load combinations named Comb1, Comb2 and Comb3. After running analysis we want to design beams by Comb1, braces by Comb2 and columns by Comb3 and for example braces should not design by Comb1 or Comb3.
Is there any automated way to assign each combination to a specific...