I'm designing a two-story parking garage using post-tensioned beams and slabs. It will be ordinary moment frames with three nominally 62' spans in one direction and 7-9 spans of between 22' and 32' in the other direction. My one-way slabs range in thickness from 7" to 9" and run in the short...
I'm currently designing a multi-span (4 bays at 62') PT beam and am trying to reconsile the seismic design between RAM Concrete and ADAPT-PT. I'm trying to decide/calculate the amount of PT to utilize in the lateral force resisting system. The PTI Manual makes a reference to using , 0% or 25%...