Diaphragm Analysis - My Journey
Most engineers will find a certain area of structural engineering that really excite them and areas that they absolutely despise, and for the longest time, I absolutely despised diaphragm design. Diaphragm design is complicated and confusing, my project managers loved to throw around the buzz phrases they had learned …
Lately I have found myself doing a lot of seismic retrofits of existing structures.
These buildings are often analyzed utilizing ASCE 41 and I have a few complaints with the standard that I have not found answers too... hopefully someone reading this site can help me out with these.
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While this website will mostly focus on items in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) field, I figured I could start with posting about how I made this website.
This website was created with the Django framework (a term I just learned throughout this process). It seems to be popular among …
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- retug on ETABs Parametric Building
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Toni,
Please take the new concrete design tool for a spin.
There is a nice new export to excel button for your use, MM diagrams, and additional parameters for the concrete section in question.
Thanks,
Retug
- Toni on ETABs Parametric Building
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Retug,
I have a request for the site. For the P&M output into excel, could you add a header with the basic parameters? Width, height, reinforcement provided so the pasting has context as to which output it is for?
Thanks,
Toni
- retug on ETABs Parametric Building
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@Toni, this post does not discuss the level of mesh refinement required. The focus is on building an ETABS model efficiently. Mesh refinement is typically evaluated within ETABS by studying the parameter of interest and refining the mesh until the results converge to an acceptable tolerance.
@fpsstructures, I edited your …