Two Diaphragms
Two Diaphragms
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I have a floor on which diaphragms are separated by 5 ft vertically, If I define two separate rigid diaphragms then does the RAM considers them 2 different diaphragms so that when it will calculate the drifts, those will be for two different diaphragms?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
RE: Two Diaphragms
Drift results, etc are based on two separate diaphragms, though they could be linked with lateral beams if you wanted.
Wind calculations are based on two fully exposed towers. Where that assumption isn't perfect, user defined wind loads are my recommendation.
http://communities.bentley.com/Products/Structural...
RE: Two Diaphragms
I am user of ETABS for last 10 years and now starting use of RAM and therefore I have lots of question.
RE: Two Diaphragms
Our community site has only a little bit of hand-verification samples, mostly for the design, not the analysis. http://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_memb...
I don't have anything more general to share (regretfully the internal test benchmarks are not in a state to share).