I've been doing PT slab/beam design in Australia for more than 5 years and I would say AS3600 has a straight forward requirement and easy to follow guidance.
I'm recently involved in PT slab design in New Zealand and I was surprised to find that the code is not as straight forward as that of...
I am working on pile design and I was advised to ignore the capacity of the edge of the pile if the embedment to the soil layer is less than 3xpile diameter. Please refer to the attachment for clarity.
I have not used such assumption in the past and I am wondering if anyone came across with it...
Thank you in advance for giving your time to address my question.
I am modeling a flat plate in ETABS and I am trying to figure out what stiffness modifier should I use. I know ACI gives this value to be 0.7 for Column, 0.35 for Beam, and 0.25 for Slabs. I am designing the structure for...
