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I recently design a 5 storey building with 2 basement. All levels was using Reinforced core fill masonry walls for load bearing wall. As my design manager told me to treat these Reinforced core fill masonry walls as a non-flexural wall. This mean the load will go directly onto the slab and...

This expansion joint don't transfer bending moment. Or simply, one edge of a RC slab sit on an edge of other RC slab. Thanks.

I currently review some structural drawings. Footing to be found on natural clay of 400KPa. No soil class here. The slab on grade is 120 thick SL82 mesh. It look ok. Strip footing typical is 300 wide x 600 deep (internal) and 450 wide x 600 deep (external double brick wall). Residential strip...

I am modelling a building with concrete slab, column and shear walls (no boundary walls) I try to apply the wind load in Etabs model with the wind load pattern already in Etabs. My questions are: - The wind load will be applied laterally or vertically or both ? - Which building elements are the...

In Section 5.5, there is no FRL (Fire resistance level) for integrity ? My slab is 110mm thick, and 20mm cover at bottom reinforcement of SL82. Therefore, axis distance is 24mm => FRL for structural adequacy < 30 min (Table 5.5.2 (B)) ? Section 5.5.2(b)(i) say : "the axis distance is...