×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Etabs model - Pier forces

Etabs model - Pier forces

Etabs model - Pier forces

(OP)
Hi,
I have a reinforced concrete shear wall building. I am trying to model it in Etabs (attached file). The lateral load is supposed to resist by only the shear walls, thus I pin the columns at base.Now, I just apply a vertical load to the building, then I look at the pier forces (by looking at table-wall forces-pier forces). I expect that I only see the axial load from pier elements, but you can see that there are also the shear force, moment and Torion.
Could someone explain me why? Is there anything wrong with my model.
Thanks
Lisu

RE: Etabs model - Pier forces

(OP)
thanks for your response, I have found my problem. It is very elementary. I should look at story shear instead of pier forces because there are 2 cores in my building. Thanks again.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources