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Hi there, I am interested in understanding shear wall analysis and design in detail. For design purposes, I'll prefer guidelines which address CSA A23.3 (Capacity Based Design) clauses when designing shear walls. It'd be great if someone can recommend some good books / Handbooks / articles on...

Hi there, I'm an M.Eng student focusing on Nonlinear Time History Analysis (NLTHA) for tall RC buildings. My capstone project revolves around implementing damped outriggers to minimize seismic forces' impact in seismic prone region. Currently, I'm seeking resources to understand the...

Hi everyone, I'm in a bit of mess currently, due to Masonry Design of Hollow blocks - fully grouted. Thing is I'll pursuing master's from abroad starting this fall and already have informed my boss that I'll be leaving office at the end of this month. While I have extensive experience in...

Hi there, I have this habit of going through ETABS models of buildings being designed in our office to understand the behavior of structures. So I was just going through this multi-tower model with initial framing and parameters as per instructions and submitted it to my senior who'll carry out...

Hi there, It's going to be a long post but please bear with me. I am currently working on a multi-tower building with a common podium. For high-rise buildings, I am normally assigned the task of creating a finite element model with gravity loads properly applied so as to assist my senior, who...

Hi there, I am currently assigned to make the general layout of High rise building in ETABS, and once my senior reviews basic framing, he'll take over the model and carry on with the setting up Dynamic (Response Spectrum) parameters, etc and then on to design process. Thing is that I am very...

Hi there, I have recently started learning Revit, and currently, I am stuck on this issue of modeling stairs. I am working on a Revit model in which I am supposed to provide a structural layout of the building only(Formwork for concrete). Due to this, I am not considering structural finishes in...

Hi there, I needed some help with converting Revit model to Etabs for structural analysis. I have CSixrevit installed in Revit. When I import this model in ETABS, only columns and grids are shown. Anything else is not imported. Secondly, I tried importing IFC file of Revit model in Etabs, and...

Hi there, I am a junior engineer, currently working on textile mill project and facing an issue, which I haven't been able to resolve for past 3-4 days. Story heights for textile mill have been shown in images. On Gridlines 17,18,19 and 20, an AC station will be placed and its subsequent loads...

I started my career as a junior structural engineer in a design firm and it has been 16 months now working here. During my third year of bachelor's, subjects related to structural engineering interested me most and that's when I realized that I want to be a structural engineer. Fast forward now...

Hi there, It has been about 16 months since I started my Structural Engineer career. In our design office, I have observed that a lot of times, modifications/changes regarding design projects are exchanged verbally and there's no record of these at all. Sometimes, when things go wrong and there...

Hi there, I was recently taking a seminar in which the speaker, during post-seminar discussions pointed out that ETABS shear wall design is way too uneconomical. Can someone please explain this or refer to some document/book to understand this. Any sort of help is highly appreciated.

Hi there, I am currently working on a 20+ story building (For educational purpose only) having dual resisting system (Moment resisting frames and concrete shear walls located in center). I intend to perform Non-Linear Static Pushover Analysis to capture non-linear response of the structure and...

Hi there, I am interested in performing "Performance Based Design" for a 20 story building. In our country, there's no trend of performing "Performance Based Design", and even name of this methodology seems alien to many. I am interested in performing "Non-Linear Static Pushover Analysis" for my...

Hi there, I was recently assigned a task of determining flexural strength of a given Steel cross-section against given loading conditions. This involves determining "rts-effective radius of gyration". Since the cross-section is not a standard one, I had to manually calculate rts value but I...

Hi there, I am a trainee and was assigned a task of designing wall footing. My senior told me to use "Tributary area method" for load calculations for this specific task. He gave me a list of formulas for various cases such as transfer of load from slab to "Exterior shorter beam, Exterior...

This structure is made up of Granite stones only. I haven't modeled a "Solid model" before, I have been trying to model this structure for past few days but have been unable to model it. Problems I am facing are following: 1- In SAP2000 which section property should I use for modelling this...

This structure is made up of Granite stones only. I haven't modeled a "Solid model" before, I have been trying to model this structure for past few days but have been unable to model it. Problems I am facing are following: 1- In SAP2000 which section property should I use for modelling this...