I guess i did not write the thread correctly.
Whati i mean is whether there is a maximum length/width ratio or generally a maximum length for steel buildigs ?
If we overcome this length we must use a seismic joint gap.
For example a steel building with a width of 10 meters can have a...
Hello to everyone.
Does anyone know what is the maximum length/width ratio for a single-storey steel building above which we should place a seismic joint gap to seperate the building into parts ?
If you could give me a code reference i would really appreciate it. I use EC3 and EC8.
I wonder what is the future of structural analysis .In my country most engineers work with elastic and empirical methods since most buildings are the same multi storey r/c blocks of flats.I would like to work on something new and i dont know what.Is pushover worth-while or should i work on...
anyway i use shell elements,i mesh them in many parts,devide the frames in the same number of frames and use almost zero thickness...the results seem good.adding special joints is a bit risky becouse i cant be sure if they are realy locked on the frame as you say.thanks for the help i didnt...
i use sap2000 but i think it doesnt matter which program i use.its rather a static question.using a very small - almost zero - bending thickness for a shell element "transfers" the whole load of the shell to the rest of the structure?is it distributed correctly?
p.s sorry for my english!:)
Thanks both of you for the advice but i did not write the thread correctly so you did not understand what i want.i am working on a steel space frame.my problem is how to transform a uniform load for a surface (kg/m^2 for example)into a uniform load for a frame (kg/m).i used shell elements with...
I want to run a space frame with and i dont know how to apply uniform loads on the beams.i used rectangular shell elements with very very small bending thickness (0,000000001.Are the uniform loads assigned correctly to the beams this way
