This problem has occurred in a six story concrete building, 42ft x 100ft. simple plan, regular structure. The strange thing is that all of the sudden the floor marble tiles simply popped out completely.
please see the photograph and plan as attached for illustration
what could be the possible...
attached is the desktop shot of the problem i am facing, trying to design this 7 story building as a S.M.R.F. but Ram keeps reminding me that as per 21.4 Pu < As.fc/10 so cannot be designed as a column.
what should i do to satisfy this ? reduce the size of column ?
i am working for "Save the children" and have been recently deputed to Pakistan, for a construction project for the (2005) earthquake victims. This school construction project is scatered and is in very remote areas. the construction is hollow concrete block masonry with (non load bearing), nine...
i am modeling a three story irregular plan building (plan attached) the basement walls modeled with frame acts as a shearwall. This shear wall modeled with frames causes a offset of C.R. from C.M more than 5%. my question is that what detailing could be used so that the retaining walls dont act...
i just wanted to reconfirm that when modeling and designing a frame, the only factor that differs accoridng to the type of frame is the R factor (structure type factor)when calculating Seismic load. Rest all is the same, desiging method, analysis, loading, and other considerations. RIGHT ?
and...
After strong recomendations, our firm finally bought bentley Ram structural System. I have used, staad, etabs, midas gen at various firms, and this is my first time with RAM SS, and i am surprised to learn RAM SS is incapable of assigning a two-way load distribution type floor deck to a simple...
