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thanks for your reply but in ubc 97 you can all information for any countray for example iam form saudi arbian ,ubc 97 consider us zone 2A

hi HOW I GET S1 IF MY place is not in USA AS PER IBC 2003 we will founnd that Step 1: Determine the mapped maximum considered earthquake spectral response acceleration at short periods, SS, and at 1-second period, S1, for the site location from Code Figures 1615(1) through 1615(10). but...

i aleardy put more than 2 expansion joint but this joint not in raft i will ask geotech about his recommendation thanks all

Thanks for all reply but we have skylight between the two parts of the building so I cannot make joint at skylight support The skylight is heavy steel structural

but if i want to cancell this joint arch matter is that possible or not?

we have building with dimension 300 meter x100 meter the building has basement for whole area and 4 floor above basement on 50% of that area , remain part has 1 floor only above basement I want to ask if we need settlement joint between the part with 4 floor and the remain part or not...

MANAY THANKS FOR YOUR HELP

dear gentlemen many thanks for your valuable information

i wish to ind answer for my question becuase i try to find asnwer for 1 month

hi everybody we have basement for building has 3 floors. the area of basement is 300 meters by 200 meters. foundation should be raft the ground water table is under natural ground level by 1.5 meter. we suggest to make construction joint every 100 meter in two direction is that enough...

sorry for that IBC 2003

INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE

hi we have building with height 80 meter we made 20 modes. after we run anlysis we have period for each mode. for example for mode 2 persiod 3 second. what is the refrence for checking the allowable for that period if it accepted or not? we use ACI and ibc thanks

DEAR ENG'R HOKIE66; sorry for being so late in respond this is the resualt which i get form safe programm.we check the load more than 10 times. i think the stress is very high because the core at the edge of footing and we have settelment joint beside the core so we can not incease the raft...

but if we did not put material for bonding between old and new concrete is that critical? for eng'r hokie66 your way is very hard to implement in site and for the raft stress you will find my answer in thread thanks for your action