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Monday 2 September 2013

Earthquake Tips:: Learning Seismic Design and Construction pdf notes by iitk in english hindi and marathi




S No Subject Language
EQ Tip 1 What Causes Earthquakes? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 2 How the Ground Shakes? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 3 What are Magnitude and Intensity? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 4 Where are the Seismic Zones in India? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 5 What are the Seismic Effects on Structures? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 6 How Architectural Features Affect Buildings During Earthquakes? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 7 How Buildings Twist During Earthquakes? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 8 What is the Seismic Design Philosophy of Buildings? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 9 How to Make Buildings Ductile for Good Seismic Performance? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 10 How Flexibility of Buildings Affects their Earthquake Response? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 11 What are the Indian Seismic Codes? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 12 How do Brick Masonry behave during Earthquake? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 13 Why should Masonry Buildings have simple Structural Configuration? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 14 Why are horizontal bands necessary in masonry buildings? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 15 Why is vertical reinforcement required in masonry buildings? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 16 How to make Stone Masonry Buildings Earthquake Resistant ? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 17 How do Earthquake Affect Reinforced Concrete Buildings ? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 18 How do Beams in RC Buildings Resist Earthquakes? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 19 How do Columns in RC Buildings Resist Earthquakes? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 20 How do Beam-Column Joints in RC Buildings Resist Earthquakes? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 21 Why are Open Ground Storey Buildings Vulnerable in Earthquakes? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 22 Why are Short Columns more Damaged During Earthquakes? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 23 Why are Buildings with Shear Walls Preferred in Seismic Regions? English / Hindi / Marathi
EQ Tip 24 How to Reduce Earthquake Effects on Buildings?

Sunday 1 September 2013

STAAD.Pro TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL(782 pages) free download

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Section 1 General Description 1 - 1.1 Introduction 1 - 1 1.2 Input Generation 2 1.3 Types of Structures 2 1.4 Unit Systems 3 1.5 Structure Geometry and Coordinate Systems 4 1.5.1 Global Coordinate System 5 1.5.2 Local Coordinate System 7 1.5.3 Relationship Between Global & Local Coordinates 11 1.6 Finite Element Information 18 1.6.1 Plate/Shell Element 18 1.6.2 Solid Element 31 1.6.3 Surface Element 34 1.7 Member Properties 36 1.7.1 Prismatic Properties 38 1.7.2 Built-In Steel Section Library 40 1.7.3 User Provided Steel Table 41 1.7.4 Tapered Sections 41 1.7.5 Assign Command 41 1.7.6 Steel Joist and Joist Girders 42 1.7.7 Composite Beams and Composite Decks 46 1.7.8 Curved Members 47 1.8 Member/Element Release 47 1.9 Truss/Tension/Compression - Only Members 48 1.10 Tension/Compression - Only Springs 48 1.11 Cable Members 49 1.11.1 Linearized Cable Members 49 1.11.2 Non Linear Cable & Truss Members 1 - 52

1.12 Member Offsets 1 - 53 1.13 Material Constants 54 1.14 Supports 55 1.15 Master/Slave Joints 56 1.16 Loads 56 1.16.1 Joint Load 56 1.16.2 Member Load 57 1.16.3 Area Load / Oneway Load / Floor Load 58 1.16.4 Fixed End Member Load 60 1.16.5 Prestress and Poststress Member Load 60 1.16.6 Temperature/Strain Load 63 1.16.7 Support Displacement Load 63 1.16.8 Loading on Elements 63 1.17 Load Generator 65 1.17.1 Moving Load Generator 65 1.17.2 Seismic Load Generator based on UBC, IBC and other codes 66 1.17.3 Wind Load Generator 67 1.17.4 Snow Load 68 1.18 Analysis Facilities 68 1.18.1 Stiffness Analysis 69 1.18.2 Second Order Analysis 74 1.18.2.1 P-Delta Analysis - Overview 74 1.18.2.1.1 P-Delta Analysis – Large Delta & Small Delta 75 1.18.2.1.2 P-Delta Kg Analysis 77 1.18.2.1.3 P-Delta K+Kg Dynamic Analysis 78 1.18.2.1.4 AISC 360-05 DIRECT Analysis 79 1.18.2.2 Buckling Analysis 80 1.18.2.2.1 Buckling Analysis – Basic Solver 81 1.18.2.2.2 Buckling Analysis – Advanced Solver 82 1.18.2.3 Non Linear Analysis 83 1.18.2.4 Imperfection Analysis 84 1.18.2.5 Multi-Linear Analysis 1 - 84
1.18.2.6 Tension / Compression Only Analysis 1 - 85 1.18.2.7 Nonlinear Cable/Truss Analysis 85 1.18.3 Dynamic Analysis 88 1.18.3.1 Solution of the Eigenproblem 88 1.18.3.2 Mass Modeling 88 1.18.3.3 Damping Modeling 90 1.18.3.4 Response Spectrum 90 1.18.3.5 Response Time History 91 1.18.3.6 Steady State and Harmonic Response 93 1.18.3.7 Pushover Analysis 95 1.19 Member End Forces 96 1.19.1 Secondary Analysis 101 1.19.2 Member Forces at Intermediate Sections 101 1.19.3 Member Displacements at Intermediate Sections 101 1.19.4 Member Stresses at Specified Sections 102 1.19.5 Force Envelopes 102 1.20 Multiple Analyses 103 1.21 Steel/Concrete/Timber Design 104 1.22 Footing Design 104 1.23 Printing Facilities 104 1.24 Plotting Facilities 105 1.25 Miscellaneous Facilities 105 1.26 Post Processing Facilities 1 - 106 Section 2 American Steel Design 2 - 2.1 Design Operations 2 - 1 2.2 Member Properties 2 2.2.1 Built - in Steel Section Library 2 2.3 Allowables per AISC Code 7 2.3.1 Tension Stress 7 2.3.2 Shear Stress 7 2.3.3 Stress Due To Compression 7 2.3.4 Bending Stress 7 2.3.5 Combined Compression and Bending 9
2.3.6 Singly Symmetric Sections 2 - 9
2.3.7 Torsion per Publication T114 2 - 9 2.3.8 Design of Web Tapered Sections 11 2.3.9 Slender compression elements 11 2.4 Design Parameters 11 2.5 Code Checking 18 2.6 Member Selection 18 2.6.1 Member Selection by Optimization 19 2.6.2 Deflection Check With Steel Design 20 2.7 Truss Members 20 2.8 Unsymmetric Sections 20 2.9 Composite Beam Design as per AISC-ASD 20 2.10 Plate Girders 22 2.11 Tabulated Results of Steel Design 23 2.12 Weld Design 26 2.13 Steel Design per AASHTO Specifications 29 2.13.1 AASHTO ASD 29 2.13.2 AASHTO LRFD 37 2.14 Steel Design per AISC/LRFD Specification 44 2.14.1 General Comments 45 2.14.2 LRFD Fundamentals 46 2.14.3 Analysis Requirements 47 2.14.4 Section Classification 47 2.14.5 Axial Tension 48 2.14.6 Axial Compression 48 2.14.7 Flexural Design Strength 49 2.14.8 Combined Axial Force And Bending 49 2.14.9 Design for Shear 50 2.14.10 Design Parameters 50 2.14.11 Code Checking and Member Selection 53 2.14.12 Tabulated Results of Steel Design 55 2.14.13 Composite Beam Design per the American LRFD 3rd edition code 55 2.15 Design per American Cold Formed Steel Code 63
2.16 Castellated Beams 2 – 72
2.17 Steel Design per the AISC 360-05 Design Specifications 2 – 86 2.17.1 General Comments 86 2.17.2 Section Classification 87 2.17.3 Axial Tension 88 2.17.4 Axial Compression 88 2.17.5 Flexural Design Strength 89 2.17.6 Design for Shear 90 2.17.7 Design for Combined Forces and Torsion 90 2.17.8 Design Parameters 91 2.17.9 Code Checking and Member Selection 94 2.17.10 Tabulated Results of Steel Design 2 – 94 Section 3 American Concrete Design 3 - 3.1 Design Operations 3 - 1 3.2 Section Types for Concrete Design 2 3.3 Member Dimensions 2 3.4 Design Parameters 3 3.5 Slenderness Effects and Analysis Consideration 6 3.6 Beam Design 7 3.6.1 Design for Flexure 7 3.6.2 Design for Shear 8 3.6.3 Design for Anchorage 8 3.6.4 Description of Output for Beam Design 9 3.6.5 Cracked Moment of Inertia – ACI Beam Design 12 3.7 Column Design 13 3.8 Designing elements, shear walls, slabs 18 3.8.1 Element Design 18 3.8.2 Shear Wall Design 20 3.8.3 Slabs and RC Designer 28 3.8.4 Design of I-shaped beams per ACI-318 3 – 29Don not forget to like and share on facebook
Section 4 Timber Design 4 - 4.1 Timber Design 4 - 1 4.2 Design Operations 13 4.3 Input Specification 16 4.4 Code Checking 17 4.5 Orientation of Lamination 18 4.6 Member Selection 4 - 18 Section 5 Commands and Input Instructions 5 - 5.1 Command Language Conventions 5 - 4 5.1.1 Elements of the Commands 5 5.1.2 Command Formats 7 5.1.3 Listing of Entities by Specification of Global Ranges 10 5.2 Problem Initiation and Title 12 5.3 Unit Specification 14 5.4 Input/Output Width Specification 16 5.5 Set Command Specification 17 5.6 Separator Command 21 5.7 Page New Command 22 5.8 Page Length/Eject Command 23 5.9 Ignore Specifications 24 5.10 No Design Specification 25 5.11 Joint Coordinates Specification 26 5.12 Member Incidences Specification 31 5.13 Elements and Surfaces 35 5.13.1 Plate and Shell Element Incidence Specification 36 5.13.2 Solid Element Incidences Specification 38 5.13.3 Surface Entities Specification 40 5.14 Plate Element Mesh Generation 44 5.14.1 Element Mesh Generation 45 5.14.2 Persistency of Parametric Mesh Models in the STAAD Input File 51 5.15 Redefinition of Joint and Member Numbers 5 - 54
5.16 Entities as single objects 5 - 56 5.16.1 Listing of entities by Specification of GROUPS 57 5.16.2 Physical Members 60 5.17 Rotation of Structure Geometry 63 5.18 Inactive/Delete Specification 64 5.19 User Steel Table Specification 66 5.20 Member Property Specification 76 5.20.1 Type Specs and Addl. Specs for assigning properties from Steel Tables 80 5.20.2 Prismatic Property Specification 85 5.20.2.1 Prismatic Tapered Tube Property Specification 87 5.20.3 Tapered Member Specification 89 5.20.4 Property Specification from User Provided Table 90 5.20.5 Assign Profile Specification 91 5.20.6 Examples of Member Property Specification 92 5.20.7 Composite Decks 94 5.20.8 Curved Member Specification 98 5.20.9 Applying Fireproofing on members 110 5.20.10 Member Property Reduction Factors 115 5.21 Element/Surface Property Specification 117 5.21.1 Element Property Specification 118 5.21.2 Surface Property Specification 119 5.22 Member/Element Releases 120 5.22.1 Member Release Specification 121 5.22.2 Element Release Specification 124 5.22.3 Element Ignore Stiffness 126 5.23 Member Truss/Cable/Tension/Compression Specification 127 5.23.1 Member Truss Specification 128 5.23.2 Member Cable Specification 130 5.23.3 Member Tension/Compression Specification 132 5.24 Element Plane Stress and Inplane Rotation Specifications 137 5.25 Member Offset Specification 5 - 139
5.26 Specifying and Assigning Material Constants 5 - 141 5.26.1 The Define Material Command 143 5.26.2 Specifying CONSTANTS for members, plate elements and solid elements 145 5.26.3 Surface Constants Specification 153 5.26.4 Modal Damping Information 155 5.26.5 Composite Damping for Springs 158 5.26.6 Member Imperfection Information 159 5.27 Support Specifications 161 5.27.1 Global Support Specification 162 5.27.2 Inclined Support Specification 166 5.27.3 Automatic Spring Support Generator for Foundations 169 5.27.4 Multi-linear Spring Support Specification 175 5.27.5 Spring Tension/Compression Specification 178 5.28 Master/Slave Specification 183 5.29 Draw Specifications 186 5.30 Miscellaneous Settings for Dynamic Analysis 187 5.30.1 Cut-Off Frequency, Mode Shapes or Time 188 5.30.2 Mode Selection 190 5.31 Definition of Load Systems 192 5.31.1 Definition of Moving Load System 193 5.31.2 Definitions for Static Force Procedures for Seismic Analysis 198 5.31.2.1 UBC 1997 Load Definition 199 5.31.2.2 UBC 1994 or 1985 Load Definition 204 5.31.2.3 Colombian Seismic Load 209 5.31.2.4 Japanese Seismic Load 212 5.31.2.5 Definition of Lateral Seismic Load per IS:1893 215 5.31.2.6 IBC 2000/2003 Load Definition 221 5.31.2.7 CFE (Comision Federal De Electricidad) Seismic Load 228 5.31.2.8 NTC (Normas Técnicas Complementarias) Seismic Load 232 5.31.2.9 RPA (Algerian) Seismic Load 237 5.31.2.10 Canadian Seismic Code (NRC) 1995 5 – 241
5.31.2.11 Canadian Seismic Code (NRC) 2005 – Vol I 5 - 247 5.31.2.12 Turkish Seismic Code 255 5.31.2.13 IBC 2006 Seismic Load Definition 262 5.31.3 Definition of Wind Load 269 5.31.4 Definition of Time History Load 274 5.31.5 Definition of Snow Load 280 5.31.6 Reference Load Types - Definition 282 5.31.7 Definition of Direct Analysis Members 284 5.32 Loading Specifications 286 5.32.1 Joint Load Specification 288 5.32.2 Member Load Specification 289 5.32.3 Element Load Specifications 292 5.32.3.1 Element Load Specification - Plates 293 5.32.3.2 Element Load Specification - Solids 299 5.32.3.3 Element Load Specification - Joints 301 5.32.3.4 Surface Loads Specification 304 5.32.4 Area Load/One Way Load/Floor Load Specification 307 5.32.5 Prestress Load Specification 321 5.32.6 Temperature Load Specification 328 5.32.7 Fixed-End Load Specification 330 5.32.8 Support Joint Displacement Specification 331 5.32.9 Selfweight Load Specification 334 5.32.10 Dynamic Loading Specification 335 5.32.10.1 Response Spectrum Analysis 336 5.32.10.1.1 Response Spectrum Specification - Generic method 337 5.32.10.1.2 Response Spectrum Specification in Conjunction with the Indian IS: 1893 (Part 1)-2002 Code for Dynamic Analysis 343 5.32.10.1.3 Response Spectrum Specification per Eurocode 8 1996 348 5.32.10.1.4 Response Spectrum Specification per Eurocode 8 2004 354 5.32.10.1.5 Response Spectrum Specification in accordance with IBC 2006 5 - 361
5.32.10.2 Application of Time Varying Load for Response History Analysis 5 - 366
5.32.11 Repeat Load Specification 369 5.32.12 Generation of Loads 372 5.32.13 Generation of Snow Loads 386 5.33 Reference Load Cases – Application 388 5.34 Frequency Calculation 389 5.34.1 Rayleigh Frequency Calculation 390 5.34.2 Modal Calculation Command 392 5.35 Load Combination Specification 393 5.36 Calculation of Problem Statistics 398 5.37 Analysis Specification 399 5.37.1 Linear Elastic Analysis 400 5.37.2 PDELTA Analysis options 403 5.37.3 CABLE Analysis (Non Linear) 409 5.37.4 BUCKLING Analysis 411 5.37.5 DIRECT Analysis 414 5.37.6 Steady State & Harmonic Analysis 416 5.37.6.1 Purpose 417 5.37.6.2 Define Harmonic Output Frequencies 420 5.37.6.3 Define Load Case Number 421 5.37.6.4 Steady Ground Motion Loading 422 5.37.6.5 Steady Force Loading 424 5.37.6.6 Harmonic Ground Motion Loading 427 5.37.6.7 Harmonic Force Loading 430 5.37.6.8 Print Steady State/Harmonic Results 434 5.37.6.9 Last Line of Steady State/Harmonic Analysis 437 5.37.7 Pushover Analysis 438 5.38 Change Specification 439 5.39 Load List Specification 442 5.40 Load Envelope 444 5.41 Section Specification 446 5.42 Print Specifications (includes CG and Story Drift) 448 5.43 Stress/Force output printing for Surface Entities 456 5.44 Printing Section Displacements 458 5.45 Print the Force Envelope 5 - 460
5.46 Post Analysis Printer Plot Specifications 5 - 462 5.47 Size Specification 463 5.48 Steel and Aluminum Design Specifications 465 5.48.1 Parameter Specifications 466 5.48.2 Code Checking Specification 469 5.48.3 Member Selection Specification 470 5.48.4 Member Selection by Optimization 472 5.48.5 Weld Selection Specification 473 5.49 Group Specification 474 5.50 Steel and Aluminum Take Off Specification 477 5.51 Timber Design Specifications 479 5.51.1 Timber Design Parameter Specifications 480 5.51.2 Code Checking Specification 481 5.51.3 Member Selection Specification 482 5.52 Concrete Design Specifications 483 5.52.1 Design Initiation 484 5.52.2 Concrete Design-Parameter Specification 485 5.52.3 Concrete Design Command 487 5.52.4 Concrete Take Off Command 488 5.52.5 Concrete Design Terminator 489 5.53 Footing Design Specifications 490 5.54 Shear Wall Design 491 5.54.1 Definition of Wall Panels for Shear Wall Design 493 5.54.2 Shear Wall Design Initiation 494 5.55 End Run Specification 5 - 496

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