Thanks for the input, guys.
Mike:
I was thinking that this was a beam on elastic foundation problem. I guess I was hoping to find some example problems that had this condition. I'm limited to hand calculations at the moment, since I won't be able to do a computer model. I would model it as...
Hey guys,
I was wondering if any of you could help me out on a problem I've been stuck with. Say you have a continuous wall footing with two shearwall segments. Say the footing is 20' long, and you have a 5' long x 8' high shearwall on each end. The seismic force on this wall line is 5 kips...
Hey guys,
I was wondering if any of you could help me out on a problem I've been stuck with. Say you have a continuous wall footing with two shearwall segments. Say the footing is 20' long, and you have a 5' long x 8' high shearwall on each end. The seismic force on this wall line is 5 kips...
I was wondering if any of you guys could help me out on a problem I have been wrestling with. I'm doing a seismic retrofit for an apartment building in the Bay Area, and my design includes adding new stud walls to create new brace lines for shear. I'm running a new grade beam under these new...
There are no piles beneath the columns. Would you be able to give me an example of how to approach this problem if I treat the grade beam as a strip footing?
I am analyzing an existing building with several steel moment frames, and was wondering how to approach calcing out the pressure on the soil from the seismic forces on the columns. Each moment frame is on a grade beam 16" wide and 1' deep. Say for a 10' high frame with columns spaced 10'...
