I have inherited an awesome project through the most unfortunate circumstances, the loss of a great engineer moving onto bigger and brighter pastures.
The project is going to be an ASCE 41 non-linear dynamic analysis and has had geotech engineers involved in picking out ground motion that represent similar ground motions that the …
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One feature that I like to use in ETABs is the section cut tool, but it is quite cumbersome to utilize in practice:
Notice how you have to enter (4) valid points to define a section cut... a time consuming process. I love to …
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This one was by far the hardest for me to achieve, but hopefully makes the site easier to read on mobile. I …
Since my last post on bending rebar in revit, I have been attempting to make a sloping K Series joist in revit that will dynamically update in the most awesome way possible.
K Series Joist in Action
Why is this awesome?!? In the …
How awesome would it be to have an easy to use, rebar drafting drawing tool in revit, getting minimum bend radii for any type of rebar? For some reason Autodesk has never released one of these and you would think it would be easy low hanging fruit for them to tackle. …
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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.