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    GFRP Rebar in Coastal Structures

    Thanks for the advice. I am reviewing the ACI 440 right now.
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    GFRP Rebar in Coastal Structures

    I've been designing a lot of structures lately that are right along the coastline. Retaining walls, soil nail walls, box culverts, etc... Since they are getting constantly battered with waves, we have been using stainless steel and GFRP rebar. The stainless steel is used mainly for the flexural...
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    Good books for Writing FE Code using C++, Fortran, or MATLAB?

    Thanks for the advice. I have checked out a few books and hopefully I can make some headway. Missil3, I found the link to UIUC very interesting and browsed through a lot of it. Unfortunately many of the links were closed. That is impressive that that is what those students do in their senior...
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    Good books for Writing FE Code using C++, Fortran, or MATLAB?

    I was hoping to start writing some very basic FE code to solve simple structural problems. I would not consider myself a programmer and only know C++, Fortran, and MATLAB. This will be difficult but is something that I have a lot of interest in. Does anyone know any good books that address...
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    How to model a tieback wall in a FEA program?

    TXStructural, Thank you for the detailed information. I did already model it as a two-way slab with column-strips and everything. I was wanting to compare these results with a FEA model to see how accurate or overly-conservative my calculations were. In my opinion, modeling it as a flat plate...
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    How to model a tieback wall in a FEA program?

    I am a new engineer at a structural engineering firm. My first 3 projects have all been walls. First a cantilever, Second a Tieback, Third a soil nail. The 60% design I submitted for the tieback needs to be updated for our next submittal. I did some rudimentary calcs for the tieback wall by hand...
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    How to model a tieback wall in a FEA program

    I am a new engineer at a structural engineering firm. My first 3 projects have all been walls. First a cantilever, Second a Tieback, Third a soil nail. The 60% design I submitted for the tieback needs to be updated for our next submittal. I did some rudimentary calcs for the tieback wall by hand...
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    Applying a Triangular Load Distribution to a Plate Element in RISA 3D

    JAE, Thank you. I did end up going to the generator routine option. I did appear to be very tailored to a wall holding back hydrostatic pressures and I still have difficulties with my trapezoidal loading. I ended up doing exactly what you said and selected bands of elements and applied...
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    Applying a Triangular Load Distribution to a Plate Element in RISA 3D

    I used SAP2000 while in school but my company has a license for RISA. I am creating a mesh of plate elements in RISA to simulate a tie-back retaining wall. The Geotechnical engineer gave me some loading diagrams that are triangular, trapezoidal, and uniform. It seems that I can easily apply the...
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    Reference to a Good Anchored Retaining Wall Design (Tieback) Manual

    I am a new designer at a structural engineering firm in Honolulu. I was wondering if anyone had a good reference to the design of tieback retaining walls? I am more interested in the structural side of things such as the design of the anchorage zone and stressing blocks as opposed to the...

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