Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by zstone

  1. zstone

    Pushover warning

    Well is evident that is bug in program Because sap have release version 14.2.4 and first fixed problem is this what i post. Significant enhancements included in SAP2000 v14.2.4: • Concrete frame design has been enhanced to improve the smoothing of P-M-M interaction surfaces in those rare...
  2. zstone

    Stiffness modifier for beam, column, wall, slab

    Dear friends, thank you for your response It is a little bit a problem. If i reduce modul of elasticity i affect all rigidities Flexural, shear and axial Exactly im trying to do what fema 356 - chapter 6 - concrete - Table 6-5 - Effective Stiffness values recomend: Walls uncracked ( on...
  3. zstone

    Stiffness modifier for beam, column, wall, slab

    Right Both FEMA and ACI propose values for this purpose, But how to include this values into walls, For example FEMA recomend to reduce Flexural rigidity of walls by 0.8EcIg My question is: how can include this effect into ETABS through stifness modifiers,or any other way maybe this values...
  4. zstone

    Stiffness modifier for beam, column, wall, slab

    Or i maybe need to reduce stifness only at beams and columns. Many Thanks
  5. zstone

    Stiffness modifier for beam, column, wall, slab

    Dear friends Regarding to fema 356 It is required to reduce also stifness properties of walls For flexure 0.5 to 0.8 EI, and for shear 0.4EA, My question is how to put this effect into walls by stifness modifiers, Which parameters i need to reduce, Because if i reduce f11, f22, or f12 i...
  6. zstone

    Pushover warning

    Hi to all During performing pushover analysis i got messagbe THE P-M-M INTERACTION SURFACE IS NOT CONVEX What is themeaning of this warning, and how to solve it. Does this affect anything in pushover analysis Regards
  7. zstone

    Large section of reinforcement with eurocode2

    Your model visually looks good, In details, why you do not mesh manually the walls and whole the model and jou can add the suports at bottom of the wall. The large value of reinforcements i have seen only in one column modeled in boundary of the wall. I im courious to know why you have made the...
  8. zstone

    Export Floor to Safe 12.2 !!

    I also found this tip to SAP 2000 v14.1.0 enhancements The capability to export a slab model to SAFE V12 has been implemented. This will be supported by SAFE V12.2 when it is released. I think its great
  9. zstone

    Export Floor to Safe 12.2 !!

    Ifound this tip in Safe v12.2 enhancements list Models of a single floor exported from SAP2000 v14.1.0 or later can now be imported. This includes linear-static, modal, and response-spectrum load cases, along with their analysis results. Any coment
  10. zstone

    About Etabs v 12

    Hi everybody Can anybody tell me something about Etabs v12, Where is planted to be relese, what contains he, and if anybody have an release note in pdf. Regards
  11. zstone

    Line load on area element

    hi govedoonobrdsko You can do that easy you just define frame element but in section property select NONE property. and assign load to this frame with NONE property and it will works.
  12. zstone

    User Defined Moving load in SAP

    Hi How can you define moving load (user defined) in SAP 2000 And apply them to any frame object or bridge
  13. zstone

    Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis

    As i know jou can display results of some load cases like envelope, but is not possible to use them in analysis and design of members. But during design of members, Robot use envelopes of combinations in automatic way. During design of reinforced concrete members for example. If you want to...
  14. zstone

    Modelling Concrete Tower in SAP2000

    I think that simply import of DXF Solid model of Auto CAD into SAP 2000, is "let i say imposible, Sap can import solid models coresponding to polygonal mesh into Auto Cad, Simply you can try. Create solid oject template into SAp 2000, and export as DXf file, and go to Auto cad and open it. Lok...
  15. zstone

    Reinforced Concrete design of Slabs

    Hi Can SAP design reinforced concrete slabs, or is the possibility to export to safe Thanks

Part and Inventory Search