By only assuming the unbonded length for your AE/L calc you could be cranking too much stiffness by way of too short a length. Suggest you use a sensitivity of L.unbonded to L.total. Using L.total may seem excessive but rock is not a homogeneous material and filled with potential imperfections...
rapt
Good talking points.
Looks like I've missed is the H/L ratio. H being the continuous height over the building and L length of wall? Is this formally defined somewhere in the code?
If designing a wall as a column and N*/phiNu <=0.5 and f'c <=50MPa (cl 11.7.4) we don't need ligs in the...
Hi All,
I am yet to see a thread addressing these formalised changes yet so I thought I would put some thoughts to paper and see if anyone has further comments.
One of the limitations of the simplified method is that axial stress be kept to 3MPa max unless reinforcement is provided on both...
