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Pile layout plotter for AutoCAD

An app developed to provide the designer with a quick layout in AutoCAD, of pile foundation for some preliminary decisions as to which all columns are to be provided ...

Does this thread cover the case of requiring Ld+10d for detailing seismic structures?

I haven't fully deciphered the gist of the claim... but to my knowledge, the mass of the foundation itself is not usually considered as dynamic mass -- see, the displacement value at the foundation l ...

The topic as discussed earlier:

//www.buonovino.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8680

Dear fellow SEFI'ans,

Some body please forward these to:
The Indian Concrete Journal (icj@acclimited.com)

regards
Rahul Leslie

Find Av (6.4.6, IS:1893-2016) from

Av = (2/3)*(Z*I)/(2*R)*(2.5)

and define vertical earthquake EQv

EQv = Av*(DL+reduced.LL)

... use this EQv in place of 'ELz' in the combinations described ...

Decision to insert which type of hinges in beams is not depended on the structural failure pattern but on the moment and shear capacities of the section. And that depends not only on the section dime ...

For your second question, you have to consider both static and dynamic cases and take out the critical out of that for individual members.

There are criteria in IS:1893 for deciding on which meth ...

Earlier, all Finite Element programs were written in FORTRAN -- for example, STAAD-III was originally written in Lahey Fortran.

ANSYS people once told me that they would have written it in C++, if ...

Max. displ is expected to be at the point where the column support is removed, i suppose. But i wonder why you want to remove columns of 4th and roof.

Anyway, you need to insert non-linear hinges i ...