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I agree with you. Thank you very much for your reply, RFreund!

Thank you very much for your reply!

Hi, all I'm designing a mat foundation for a building with only concrete walls (without columns). I know we need to check beam shear (one-way shear), but how to check it? the width is the midline of the two walls? Can you recommend any books that talk about the mat foundation design? Thank you...

Hi, all, I am designing a 17-story high concrete building. The lot is small, and the two stairwells and the elevator shaft are all located on one side of the building (right side), which caused very heavy load on the right side. The soil capacity is 6 kips per square foot, but the soil pressure...

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Hi all, About concrete shear wall design, normally I first use Etabs to do Shear wall design (uniform reinforcing), to get the critical load combinations. Then I put the P V M into the shear wall design spreadsheet to design this shear wall. My questions: 1. Is this method OK? 2. Why the...

Hi all, About concrete shear wall design, normally I first use Etabs to do Shear wall design (uniform reinforcing), to get the critical load combinations. Then I put the P V M into the shear wall design spreadsheet to design this shear wall. My questions: 1. Is this method OK? 2. Why the...