Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

Congratulations KootK on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

How to calculate the stiffness if area spring in SAP2000

Thread starter hanilouis
Start date Aug 17, 2015

Status: Not open for further replies.

Aug 17, 2015

hanilouis

Structural

Dear Colleagues,

I'm currently preparing FEA model for steel circular tank tank. I would like to know to to calculate the area spring stiffness to simulate full contact between :

1- Tank bottom plate and RC beam
2- Tank Bottom plate and sand soil.

Thanks for your support and advice in advance.