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Sign Convention for Loading Input in SAFE

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PatrickFan

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I am now designing a raft footing by "SAFE" for which many structural walls resting on it.

I model the loadings from these walls as line loads. Three loading components for each line load are included,namely, vertical axial load, in-plane major wall moment and out-of-plane minor wall moment.

Please tell me the sign convention for these loading components so that I will not input in the wrong sign,i.e., positive wrongly input as negative and negative wrongly input as positive.

Many thank !!!!
 
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