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  1. thomaschua17

    Shear wall failing in shear?

    Thanks all for replying! "Make it thicker. Make it longer. Add another shear wall. Check your model to make sure it's behaving correctly." - all seems good. no errors or ill condition, displacements are all in place. "How many levels of basement? Are you modelling the soil pressure? Perhaps...
  2. thomaschua17

    Shear wall failing in shear?

    I'm modelling an 8-Storey with Basement building, currently I have two shear walls, and both are failing in shear at the bottom from basement to 4th storey. the base is currently at 550mm thk, and it's still failing. How can I go about this? I have attached the screenshot of my model, the top...
  3. thomaschua17

    Connection of truss for pin and roller support?

    I understand that when modelling a truss system, you should assign one end as pinned and the other as roller. This has been bothering me for quite some time now as I was told at work that just detail both the supports of the truss as an anchor bolt with base plate connection. If I do this...
  4. thomaschua17

    Pedestal Rebars as Anchor Reinforcement

    Good day! I'm just confused about the anchor reinforcement option in ram connect. Can I use the existing pedestal reinforcements as anchor reinforcement, I'm having large values of breakout in shear even though my pedestal is already a significantly large size, but when I check the anchor...

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