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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. zstone

    Reinforced Concrete design of Slabs

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

    Membrane Tension only behaviour

    Hi everybody How can i model the membrane behaviour of any shell element. The membrane must behave only in tension. Do i use stiffness modiffiers, or something like this, to perform membran e tension only behaviour. Thanks
  7. zstone

    Shear wall Design, more Detailed

    Can anyone teell mee for any other prefered software which can design shear walls with Eurocode, CSI,s software have not implemented yet shear wall design procedure to, eurocodesas i know, I use ETABS for structural analysis but not for design of shear walls. regardS
  8. zstone

    Partial fixity feature_Beams

    Hi everybody Partial fixity feature is available in Etabs I try to use coeff 0.7 to reduce stiffnes of beam by 70% in adjoing with wall byt it not work, Do I find bending stifnes of beam, and multiply with 0.7 example 25876*0.7= ......, AND this value to use as partial fixity coefficient is...
  9. zstone

    Loads to mass conversion_3 cases - diferent results

    Hi Everybody I have four Story building, Flat slab with perimeter beams, loads> Dead - self weight of structure Live - 3 kN/m2 When i convert loads to masses, i use 2 and 3 options 2. From Loads Dead - 1, and Live - 0.5 3. From self and specified mass and loads Live - 0.5 and booth cases...
  10. zstone

    Scale Factor on Response Spectrum Analysis

    I like do perform an Response Spectrum Analysis on Etabs, I have define a Design Spectrum By EC8 - import from file case, and i have set a scale factor value equal to 1.0, im i correct, because the Spectrum is defined to be Design , and is input in manual way in Etabs, I dont like to perform...
  11. zstone

    Linear Release on Edge of Slab - Etabs or Robot

    Hi Everybody Im new in Etabs, I'd like to define a linear release on edge of slab, for example: conection of slab with wall to be pinned, not fixed, With Robot Millennium this is posible and very easy, is this posible in Etabs or SAP regards
  12. zstone

    About meshing techniques

    which is best way? In some training manuals of CSI,and video tutorials, shear walls are not meshed. Complet shear wall in one story is included as one finite element, this reason is for design of shear wall procedure or fore anyother reason, i dont know i thing that to meshing shear waall is...

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