Lateral force

[torogiak]

After getting the earthquake force(E)of a building by solving the base shear using UBC 1997 seismic code, is the earthquake forces (E) be the value to be used in the load combination 1.2D + 1.0L + 1.0E. I want to learn how to manually analyze frame having vertical loads and lateral loads before learning any structural softwares. Any reference or samples you could share, thanks

 

[Bagman2524]

yes

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[torogiak]

thanks, follow up question am i going to solve separately the combination 1.2D+1.0L using say moment distribution and 1.0E using either portal or cantilever method then add up the axial, shear and moments?