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Different deflections for slabs in a symmetric building in ETABS

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insajn

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Hi

I'm modeling a symmetric building on ETABS for practice and I noticed that the higher the slab is the larger the deflection. I'm afraid that I have column shortening which results in cumulative deflections.

What can I do to check what is wrong ?
 
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Just model the slab on the correct elevation.

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