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Recent content by The Designer
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Serious/urgent question on Retaining walls in Etabs models
patswfc yea that is what i needed to know .. great info 👍 I asked my professor will it be realistic for the wall ro carry load from the above column and he told me it is ... he told me that in real.life the wall and the column are one unit not two ... so load would be transferred to the wall ...- The Designer
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- Forum: Structural engineering general discussion
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Serious/urgent question on Retaining walls in Etabs models
No matter how i change loacation of the wall .. it attracts force from the columns surrounding it. not just from the slab. one way i can overcome this is by lowering its stiffness modifiers.. but that way i would also lower the load it will attract from the slab (which can also be wrong) my...- The Designer
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- Forum: Structural engineering general discussion
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Serious/urgent question on Retaining walls in Etabs models
I tried this several times and I'm confused now. In Etabs models with retaining walls beside the columns .. the retaining wall carries a reaction greater than weights on the floor they are connected to. For Example a 6 floors building with a retaining wall under the first slab/floor the reaction...- The Designer
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- Forum: Structural engineering general discussion
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Selecting Joints On CSI Etabs
sometimes the modal functions don't run but there are no errors displayed when you check the model. one way to find the problem is to set the run on SAPfire solver then run the model... after the model is run there is a text file generated.. you can find the joints or lines causing the error in...- The Designer
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- Forum: Structural engineering general discussion
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Selecting Joints On CSI Etabs
Is there a way to select a joint on Etabs by its Coordinates rather than Joint Label or unique name..- The Designer
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- Forum: Structural engineering general discussion
