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Setting Up Wind Drift Model In Etabs
Gif file not mine. Credit goes to whoever owns this.webp. Continuing our exploration of the different lateral analysis models, we…
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Prokon And Case Of The Flying Footings
by yours truly Anyone here who uses Prokon’s column base design module? The one that deals with good old conventional…
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LIMIT STATE DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
achieving the design objectives, the design shall be based on characteristic values for material strengths and applied loads (actions), which…
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LIMIT STATE DESIGN: BASIS FOR DESIGN
The current revision of the code of practice, IS 800:2000, recommends limit state method for design of structures using hot…
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STEEL DESIGN: TYPES OF ELEMENTS
IS 800:2007 classifies elements in to three types, as per Cl. 3.7.3., as follows. 1. Internal elements These are elements…
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CLASSIFICATION OF CROSS-SECTIONS
Plate elements of a cross-section may buckle locally due to compressive stresses. The local buckling can be avoided before the…
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PROPERTIES OF STRUCTURAL STEEL
1. Physical properties Physical properties of structural steel, as detailed by cl.2.2.4.1 of IS 800:2007, irrespective of its grade may…
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Collapse Mechanism
So for our previous beam, we know that we require two hinges for collapse (one more than its degree of…
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Shape Factor
Thus the ratio of elastic to plastic moment capacity is: This ratio is termed the shape factor,f, and is a property…
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Statically indeterminate axial problems
In these analyses we used superposition often, knowing that for a linearly elastic structure it was valid. However, an elastic…
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Plastic Analysis of Steel Structures
Introduction to Plastic Analysis: Analysis of stress, deflection and distortion determinations within the limit of proportionality of the material of…
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Triangular Elements
Shape function using Cartesiancoordinates Higher Order Triangular Elements Higher order elements are useful if the boundary of the geometry is…