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How do we know Residual strength of Concrete and Steel rebars? For example: Steel Grade 60, and Concrete f'c=28 MPa in American standard.
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Why ASCE 7 requires that the design base shear determined using Modal Response Spectrum is not less than 85 percent of the base shear determined using Equivalent Lateral Force?
09 September 2015 9,873 0 View
In ETABS, I defined Response Spectrum Functions in UBC97, ASCE 7-10 and Eurocode 8-2004 types, howerver these Response Spectrum Functions use only 5% damping ratio. When I change the damping ratio...
07 July 2015 5,569 9 View
I modelled a building (Dual shear wall/frame building) by using ETABS and PERFORM 3D with the same meshing. However, I got the difference between natural time period of ETABS model and the one of...
06 June 2015 7,249 12 View
In the attached picture, there are Trilinear Relationship and related parameters of concrete material in PERFORM 3D software. How to determine these parameters (compression stress FY, FU;...
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According to current codes for the seismic design of structures, the design base shear is calculated by dividing the base shear obtained through modal synthesis in conjunction with an elastic...
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Please help me explain how to get the value of site coefficient or provide me any document to read. For example: the site coefficient value in ASCE 07-10 (the table in attached file).
12 December 2014 3,686 6 View
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