You're right.
I was searching for information about force that my bracing need to bear in case of concrete columns - there was a thread about something like that here on this forum. There was no real conclusions if it's different from steel columns - opinions were divided between 2% (as for...
Shear walls (from staircase) are very eccentrically positioned and I'm affraid of torsional moment:
I think that diaphragm from concrete hollow core slabs is stiff (there is concrete between slabs, and it will be also connected to precast concrete beams by a cast-in-place ring beam) but I...
As I wrote, the connections are not stiff, precast beams are just laying on the column corbels (of course there will be 2#20 rebars to connect it) - I treat it as a pinned connection and in Robot concrete beams are pinned on both ends.
Hi,
firstly I apologize for my english, but I hope you understand what I mean.
I want to ask you about bracing concrete columns in a 2 storey building which I'm designing right now.
Columns (50x50 cm in section) are precast and continous from foundation through the 1st floor level and to the...
