Simba13
Structural
- May 19, 2020
- 105
Good Afternoon all,
I'm working on an analysis of a concrete diaphragm with multiple large openings. I'll admit that as a junior engineer my knowledge of diaphragms is pretty much limited to the simple examples required to pass the PE. I've leafed through Malone and Rice's "Analysis of Irregular Shaped Structures" and beyond being a bit difficult to digest (for my monkey brain![[bigsmile]](/data/assets/smilies/bigsmile.gif "[bigsmile] [bigsmile]")
) I have no idea how much of these examples apply since the book is pretty much exclusively looking at wood/flexible diaphragms. So how do you all approach analyzing rigid diaphragms with multiple large openings? I'm not looking to be spoon-fed, even just some simple bullet points on steps would be incredibly helpful. Also, is there a comparable reference to M & R's book but for rigid diaphragms? The closest I found was one of the examples out of SEAOC vol 3 but even that one only had 2 shears walls on each edge (I have 4 in the N-S dir.).
I'm working on an analysis of a concrete diaphragm with multiple large openings. I'll admit that as a junior engineer my knowledge of diaphragms is pretty much limited to the simple examples required to pass the PE. I've leafed through Malone and Rice's "Analysis of Irregular Shaped Structures" and beyond being a bit difficult to digest (for my monkey brain
) I have no idea how much of these examples apply since the book is pretty much exclusively looking at wood/flexible diaphragms. So how do you all approach analyzing rigid diaphragms with multiple large openings? I'm not looking to be spoon-fed, even just some simple bullet points on steps would be incredibly helpful. Also, is there a comparable reference to M & R's book but for rigid diaphragms? The closest I found was one of the examples out of SEAOC vol 3 but even that one only had 2 shears walls on each edge (I have 4 in the N-S dir.).
