STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FORUM OF INDIA [SEFI]

I will be posting comments on the draft code. Hopefully members of�� committee will respond. Here is the first comment :

Clause 1.2 may please be redrafted as follows :

The prescriptive requ ...

The topic was inadvertently posted twice.

Your suggestions are welcome on my comments available at the following link :

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z_N9kDAy5rkneE_dTvlP8yiM5yHa3sU_p0Mvz ...

A�Draft Code for Seismic Detailing of Steel Building was recently published by BIS. In its present form, the code will make many of the steel buildings unviable cost wise. The code is open for comment ...

Profiled sheets on roof and sides can be designed for diaphragm action to resist lateral loads. Please be aware that steel framework participates in diaphragm action and axial forces so induced must b ...

My apologies Sir.

Rudra Nevatia

Dear Er. Rudra Nevatia,

Sir, what I have written is not a joke. My tongue is firmly in my mouth only.

Yours truly.

N. Prabhakar

Tongue firmly in cheek, Sir ?

Rudra Nevatia

Dear Sefians,

To me, this collapse of water tank is in fact a planned demolition, and not a natural collapse on its own for whatever reasons that h ...

We observe that :

1. Failure occurs at a construction joint near mid-height of the shaft
2. Failure is gradual due to crushing�of concrete in circumferencial direction
3. The tank topples over in ...

Hi Ratna Kishore,

Flanged cruciform sections are used for providing moment resisting frames in orthogonal directions.

A better option is to use I sections for moment resisting frames in one dir ...

Dear Dr. Rai,

I believe, 1.5 factor on static eccentricity accounts for magnification of closely spaced lateral and torsional mode frequencies which is not captured in Equivalent Static Method or w ...

Dear Mr. Sen,

IMHO choice of the method should not be left to any software.

One of the important findings in FEMA P-2012 / September 2018 is stated below and hopefully will be incorporated in f ...