ETABS Walking Colum
ETABS Walking Colum
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Has anyone tried to obtain floor diaphragm forces resulting from walking columns from ETABS?
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RE: ETABS Walking Colum
1) Model your columns as finely meshed walls or;
2) Model your columns as diagonal members running between overlap zones.
The point being that I don't think that modelling the columns using vertical line elements would produce the diaphragm forces that you're looking to capture.
I'm curious to see how this works out for you.
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RE: ETABS Walking Colum
RE: ETABS Walking Colum
I have tried modelling the columns as walls. I am taking the shear force at the transition level as the diaphragm force at that level, though another engineer at my work suggests we should be taking the shear difference between this level and the level below. This would give me a lower diaphragm force.