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Etabs 13 base shear calculation check according to UBC97

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BOCH

Structural
Aug 28, 2013
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Hi guys,
I would like to share with you this incidence,
I was running an Etabs 13 model and checking the calculated base shear (according to UBC97),
This is what I have got (image attached),

The used period to calculate the base shear in X direction was not taken as per the “Modal direction factor table” which indicate that the period in X direction is 0.469s with a 76.3% participating ratio ..
Am I missing something here ?
 
 http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=b15b65c7-6ecc-45fe-8b15-7fb7630b1184&file=Base_shear_calculation.png
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