Do you include concrete floor in modeling a building?
Do you include concrete floor in modeling a building?
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Do you model the cast-in concrete floor in the calculation of buildings?
If so, please give the element type and modeling techniques you use.
If not, please specify the way you determine the loads transferred to surrounding beams.
Discussions will be based on SAP2000, ETABS or STAAD Pro.
If so, please give the element type and modeling techniques you use.
If not, please specify the way you determine the loads transferred to surrounding beams.
Discussions will be based on SAP2000, ETABS or STAAD Pro.






RE: Do you include concrete floor in modeling a building?
I have no experience of the programs mentioned but if they are any good they should have the ability to model a 'stiff deck' or be able to apply the actual element type.
I ahve experience of MasterSeries and CADS A3D both of which have this feature.
RE: Do you include concrete floor in modeling a building?
I have conducted some test samples in ETABS and found the floors (area objects) need not be meshed if they are modeled with PLANK or DECK, which transfer vertical load to surrounding beams sigle way. However if you model the floors with SLAB and do not mesh the area objects and surrounding beams, the results of the beams are not correct. Do I have to mesh or slab area objects and surrounding beams before I run the analysis? If so, the number of elements and the calculation time would increase considerably.
Can anyone that have pragmatic experience in these software give me some suggestion?
RE: Do you include concrete floor in modeling a building?
first you have to assign to the floor element a slab property with plate specification. To obtain moments in adjacent beams, you have to do manual meshing at the very end just before you are ready to run the calculations.
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RE: Do you include concrete floor in modeling a building?
RE: Do you include concrete floor in modeling a building?