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Suspicious results for beam forces

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maddrum

Structural
Sep 12, 2007
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Hi!
I think that etabs gives too little beam forces when is used to model irregular constructions.
I have checked that moments which etabs show me are generated only from loads directly applied to the beam.
It comes out that no slab loads are transfered to the beams.
Can you share me some tips to deal with this problem?

 
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