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    AS3700 & BlockAid Chairs

    We had a large, 6 storey building project, all masonry, a few years back. It was the first project with the 2018 code adopted, as the contractor heard about the new capacities and wanted to take advantage of it. We explained the limitations, needing BlockAid or similar etc. The contractor was...
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    AS3600-2018 Walls vs Columns (Again..)

    Hi All, I know this topic has been beaten to death on here, and no conclusion has really been made to clearly define the difference between a 'wall' and a 'column'. The most current AS3600-18 Amdt 2 has definitely made steps in the right direction, but ultimately, engineers can, and are, still...
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    AS3600 - Seismic design loads for foundations

    yeah, i guess so., which will probably be the case for most 'true' raft slabs, and the spans aren't really between each individual column/wall/core, but the entire raft dishing under the load. I think that the flexural tension demands can be reduced by 0.77/2, but shear would need to be designed...
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    AS3600 - Seismic design loads for foundations

    Hi lion, This is obviously going to need to be investigated on a case by case basis, but I'd think even if you have combined lateral systems landing on a shared raft, often the compression side of one element is going to be counteracting the tension side of another, unless all the elements are...
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    AS3600 Section 14, height limits on walls

    Hi rscassar Some will tell you that the paragraph under table 14.3 is the answer - the least ductile element in the combined system governs the whole system. However I feel this is more applicable for a building that has say a full-height core box and a full height shear wall/moment frame. The...
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    AS3600-2018 Seismic Detailing for columns

    Haha speaks to the level of clarity the new code and commentary has provided.
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    AS3600 - CL14.6.2

    The universities can't teach what they don't know.
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    AS3600 - Seismic design loads for foundations

    Sorry. I don't know how to quote text so this is directed at several previous messages.. My interpretation of the simplified approach to seismic design in Australia, is that if we ever get the 1/500 or 1/1000 seismic event, you're not repairing the structure afterwards. You're demolishing it...
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    AS3600 - Seismic design loads for foundations

    The base shear in the structure is the same as the base shear on the raft - a horizontal shear (in-plane for the wall). This shear needs to be amplified (CL14.6.6) for the wall design and wall-raft base connection. But the horizontal shear probably doesn't need to be considered in the raft...
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    AS3600 - Seismic design loads for foundations

    Again, the ductility approach is very crude and basic. We're basically reducing all tension steel requirements by 2.6, assuming the bars are all yielding how we expect them to, where we expect them too. Unfortunately, we usually put more steel in than required, we have material reduction...
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    AS3600 - Seismic design loads for foundations

    I would think that the raft footing only needs to be designed, flexurally, for the same level of ductility provided to the primary lateral elements (core, shear wall etc) as it is part of the same ductile load path. For shear, the footing should be designed for overstrength, eg x2/0.77. The...
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    AS3600-2018 - Minimum Core Wall Reinforcement

    As per others' comments, I would think that central dowels are acceptable, but you must have the same or more tension steel as required in the wall, to achieve the level of ductility you are designing for, and the dowels should be concentrated at your critical tension zone, to ensure the tension...
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    AS3600 - CL14.6.2

    And yet there are numerous posts trying to clarify the new code requirements. I've had discussions with others from multiple design firms about similar issues. If only there was a way for practicing engineers to get in contact with the committee directly about these issues, but of course, the...
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    AS3600 - CL14.6.2

    Thanks everyone for input. Yes, my thoughts were when the code says "exceeds 0.15f'c anywhere in THE wall" it's still referring to the wall with discontinuous ends. I'm still confused by CL11.7.4 (a): "for all walls in structures with a structural ductility Mu greater than 1.0, the vertical...
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    AS3600 - CL14.6.2

    Hi there Can anyone confirm that CL14.6.2 only applies to isolated shear walls with "discontinuous edges", and does not apply to walls within a closed core box? I find that CL14.6.2.3 is quite onerous that where stress exceeds 0.15f'c, all verticals bars needing restraint. But then in a...
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