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    Ground Acceleration Registries

    Hello. Can anyone tell me where can i find ground acceleration registries, not the graphics but the time-accel. data. Thanks.
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    Ground Acceleration Registries

    Hello. Can anyone tell me where can i find ground acceleration registries, not the graphics but the time-accel. data. Thanks.
  3. aapl2k7

    How can i intersect two planes in ACAD?

    I need help finding a way to intersect two planes in acad, apparently i cannot do this, i mean, ACAD only intersects solids. I guess i can do it the "old fashion" way which is obtaining equations of the planes and doing the rest of the mathematical stuff, but if ACAD has a way of doing this...
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    Saturated Soil, Settlement Problem?

    We're building a shrimp hatchery in Nicaragua (Light Gage Stainless Steel Structure, Reinforced Concrete Tanks), the site is about 350 meters from the beach, today we ran into this problem, over the last week or so, we cut the area of work to remove the top layer of the soil (black mud, highly...
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    Rigid diaphragm?

    I'm having trouble determining which of the two options represent a rigid diaphragm (pdf file attached), it is for a two storey house, using confined CMU walls, to me figure #2 is correct but i've seen both types of construction so i'm confused. For a brief explanation on Confined Masonry check...
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    Industrial Facilities Roof System

    I've noticed that the roof system used in industrial facilities (by industrial facilities i mean one story, large span frames), usually have braces at the roof level; i read on the book "Structural Concepts and Systems for Architects and Engineers" by T.Y. Lin & S.D. Stotesbury that these...
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    Welded wire sandwich panel in ETABS

    Hello, i need a tip on how to model "welded wire sandwich panels" on ETABS, i'm not sure if anybody here is familiar with this system, but it's popular in Latin America, specially in Mexico. The structure that i'm modeling is a 2 story house, the lower floor walls consists of "confined masonry"...

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