Hi Guys
I am designing a single storey steel framed buiding clad with cavity brickwork(two leaves of brickwork with a 50mm cavity)and I am planning to use flat plate tension cross braces in the brick wall cavity. The braces are aprroximately 75mm by 5mm plate.
Does anyone have any comments...
As an extension to the question already asked by "Sepultura" how would one model the soil spring as compression only - using ETABS. Any hints/thoughts would be extremely appreciated.
I am trying to model a raft for a 20 story building using shell elements. I then grounded each node of the raft mesh using "gap" link elements to model the compression only spring stiffness of the soil support condition but there are a couple of things which dont appear to be correct with the...
