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    Etabs- Horizontal Shear Due to Vertical (Dead Loads)

    Hi Zeeshan, If you can confirm one more thing - For shear wall design I am assigning "unifrom Reinforcing Section" for individual legs of "C" shape core walls and and General reinforcing section i.e actual section with columns at ends as boundry elements- For individual shear walls on Grid...
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    Etabs- Horizontal Shear Due to Vertical (Dead Loads)

    Thanks a Lot Zeeshan!!! I will also be adding the overstrength FActor. I agree the model needed lots of fixing - I was asked to work on the model in the middle of the project and had to run the analysis to meet deadlines - you know how clients are !!!! Anayways, i'll go through the model and...
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    Metric Steel Detailing

    Hi Slickdeals, I have a pdf file of detailing manual - as per British standards - as per BS 5950 etc. can mail it to you if you want. Cheers, Alok
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    Etabs- Horizontal Shear Due to Vertical (Dead Loads)

    Hi Everybody, I have attached the.e2k file.Its a huge model and it takes 4 hours to run on my Machine. So it will be a good idea to Start the analysis run in evening and check back the next morning. I have checked the model for gravity loading as well as equilibrium of vertical loads- the...
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    Etabs- Horizontal Shear Due to Vertical (Dead Loads)

    Hi Everybody, I have just started working on Etabs.I am working on model of a 20 strorey Building in Seismic Zone 2. After running the analysis i've found that even for pure vertical load cases i am getting lot of shear force (About 2500 kN) in shear walls. I've checked the model for all...

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