SAP2000 shell stresses
SAP2000 shell stresses
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I'm doing a pile cap design using sap2000. Can someone help me interpret the result please? I'm getting V12=V23 = 13.6 kips/inch and Vmax = 22.08 kips/inch. Is this the shear force per inch of the pile cap thickness? or per inch of the width? I want to check for punching. My pile cap is 12ft x 12ft x 36-inch deep. Thanks in advance.






RE: SAP2000 shell stresses
RE: SAP2000 shell stresses
RE: SAP2000 shell stresses
That way, you can compare the plate force for adjacent plates of different sizes. Make sense?
RE: SAP2000 shell stresses
RE: SAP2000 shell stresses
Personally, I usually go back to more traditional hand calcs. Look at the moment and shears in the column or pile support. Look at the geometry of the pile and punching perimeter. After that, it's just a hand calculation.
However, the SAFE guys (if I remember correctly) try to use direct FEM results in their punching calculations. So, you might check their help files and documentation to see if that makes sense to you. So, there are other ways to do it.
I use the hand calc method because it's easily spelled out in ACI code references. Though I'm not suggesting that this method is better than the other, just that is has easier, more defensible support in the ACI code documents.
RE: SAP2000 shell stresses
Thanks...