I made a few updates to the site, mostly focusing on updating the home page sidebar to have some actual information. The old side bar was just place holder text from the tutorial I found, but the new side bar is populated with the last (3) comments made on the …
A long time coming... a professional level plugin for ETABs, or at least a whole lot better than the python diaphragm slicer.
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This plugin will allow you to slice up your diaphragm in …
Having nailed down the initial steps of creating a plugin, I set out to do some real functional work with the plugin. Being naive, I went off the deep end to begin programming the diaphragm slicer, but was quickly met by a sea of syntax …
My first "Hello World" addin for ETABs is shown above. No matter how many times you see it, it is always satisfying to get Hello World to print out.
To make the addin, I followed Jeremy's examples on his website. Big thanks to him and his …
After unlocking the first part of the RAM API, I wanted to create a practical example of how this could be used to automate a few tedious tasks that we perform in the office.
Chord and Collector Design, A Tedious Task
I chose chord and collector design …
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- Toni on ETABs Parametric Building
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How do you assess the fineness of the mesh required? More scale or load based?
- retug on Transfer Diaphragm Design
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@316Jq, The way I understand, the diaphragm design force (inertia force) per 12.10.1.1 is the inertia force.
Using the blog example numbers let's say this is 1392 kips.
The transfer diaphragm force could be estimated to be the delta in shears above and below the transfer level ~ (1500 - …
- 316Jq on Transfer Diaphragm Design
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Just wonder how do you separate inertia force and the transfer force? The inertia force might be controlled by the Fpx,min per ASCE12.10-2, while the transfer force might need to be multiplied by rho or omega. This is also briefly discussed in NHERP design guidance you used.