Concrete slender wall design
Concrete slender wall design
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I have designed a load bearing concrete wall for one-storey building, Wall thickness t=59mm, height h=3000 mm and one single layer #4 bars @ 250mm vertically reinforced at center of the wall. The h/t =50.8 and kL/r =135.6 of the wall shows a very slender wall. I figured out the P-M diagram for the wall. I tryed to use the magnified moment method specified by ACI318 Cl 10.11 – 10.12. It was very hard for me to guess the EI in order to calculate Pc. Any ideas on how to get this? Thank you.






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Did you say the wall is 59mm thick?
That's only 2-5/16" thick!
I don't believe ACI 318 covers that thin shell element
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Thanks for any hint.
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I apologize for the mistake. It is my first time log on this site.