Sorry for the extremely late reply, very rude of me.
Thanks for the responses. I'll admit that I made a few oversights in the engineering justification and what KootK posted seemed to jog my memory on previous examples of where I have dealt with similar situations.
The force at each level is...
Thanks for the responses guys.
I tend to agree with what KootK says. For such an eccentricity that is only small in relevance to the below column, even if the force was tied back I can't see it ever truly being resolved in this way.
1) For more information, this is a 28 story tower and this is...
Usually when designing an eccentric or 'walking' column, I will tie resultant forces back into the slab or beam that are caused by this eccentric loading.
However I have a case where a 400x400 column is landing only 65mm eccentric to a 250x1200 column in it's major direction. Hence, it is quite...
