Yes it allows me to. I can also modify the stiffness to achieve that. What really concern me is I am not 100% confident about the consequence of doing this.
I don't think thicken the transfer slab is necessary when the long term deflection is under limit. Also, sometimes transfer slab is PT, which means the deflection will be under control even when the slab is thin. However, in the full model (not designing the transfer slab itself), I (also many...
No, just rigid connection for walls-slab.
I am pretty sure it is vierendeel action caused by the transfer slab. Not sure about the mechanism of modifying wall stiffness to let it crack like KootK mentioned though.
I simply deleted that whole story and assigned both ends of walls as pin restraints.
The moment was caused by the transfer slab below or, like KootK mentioned, the vierendeel frame action.
First of all, thank you very much for your reply. Really appreciate that.
In regard to modifying the wall stiffness and let it crack under gravity, I am wondering how wide the crack width will be and will it be considered as service failure? Also, I am not sure if I fully understand the...
Yes it is gravity. Sorry for that.
It is a general question but I have uploaded a simply etabs model here.
below is the plan view.
upper floor
lower transfer slab
The dimension of the upper floor is two 10m x 7m . slab is 300mm thick.
The dimension of the lower transfer slab is two 12m x...
It is a general question because I have this kind of issue many times so I cannot tell how thick the slabs are. But I will upload a model with 350mm thick conventional transfer slab.
Same. That's why I detected the transfer floor and then got 'reasonable' results.
I think the 'abnormal'...
Can anyone guide me on how to design RC walls when transferred slabs are involved?
I realize that the transferred slab will have great impact for the bending moments in the walls above.
Say I have a 3 stories building with PT transferred slab on 1st floor. When I use ETABS for analysis and...
