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Recently our company structural engineers team have designed a high rise steel structure with special moment frames system+ special bracing frames which boosted by rotational friction dampers and used WUF-W connection for connecting beam to column. According to ACI-358-16 (PreQualified...
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As you know we have to dedicate vertical effect of seismic loads on elements equal to 0.2DL in LRFD method in both directions.
My question is if we want to design and analyze an element with pinned connections like a composite beam in a composite steel deck, should we consider this load...
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I have modeled a structure with 4stages but complicated just a little bit!
until first floor it is integrated but will separated after first one, then i have to define two diaphragm, also they are rigid.
1- is there any way to find force of diaphragm in Etabs?? for example if the shear...