Hi all,
About concrete shear wall design,
normally I first use Etabs to do Shear wall design (uniform reinforcing), to get the critical load combinations.
Then I put the P V M into the shear wall design spreadsheet to design this shear wall.
My questions:
1. Is this method OK?
2. Why the load combinations in Boundary Element check in Etabs are not always the worst load combinations?
3. If we don't use Etabs, how to find the worst load combinations?
I really appreciate for any reply.
Grace
I'm not sure where I should post, so I post both this forum and shear wall forum.
About concrete shear wall design,
normally I first use Etabs to do Shear wall design (uniform reinforcing), to get the critical load combinations.
Then I put the P V M into the shear wall design spreadsheet to design this shear wall.
My questions:
1. Is this method OK?
2. Why the load combinations in Boundary Element check in Etabs are not always the worst load combinations?
3. If we don't use Etabs, how to find the worst load combinations?
I really appreciate for any reply.
Grace
I'm not sure where I should post, so I post both this forum and shear wall forum.