Ahsan Kazmi

Any structural engineer working in Saudi Arabia or had experience in Saudi Arabia please share some details about structural engineering practice and environment in KSA.

@Nustian371 can you recommend or share any book regarding PT for beginners? My email is " engrahsanali92@gmail.com "

Can anyone share the design example or procedure of helical stair?

Sorry in advance but what i haven't understood from the above discussion is that how we differentiate between the the options that etabs provide us in Mass source tab? If we check the " From self and specified mass" would this be incorrect? If we check the " From self and specified mass and loads" would it double the effect of Mass? Is specified mass is the the one what we have applied as area, point and line loads ?

Hi All, I am facing following problems in modeling a foundation, please guide 1. I have modeled a foundation in CSI SAFE v8 and exported the same model in safe v12 both programs are showing different values soil pressure and punching shear (difference is slight) but why is that? 2. Safe is not showing the values of punching shear for T-shaped and L-shaped colums why? Thanks

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Can you please explain how to amplify this value, means what is the formula for getting the amplified value of eccentricity? One thing more if torsional irregularity exists do we need to perform dynamic analysis?

@UmarMakhzumi This is the plan. as code says if torsional irregularity exists increase by amplication factor Ax. Please guide how to do that in etabs.

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Only dead and live loads with scale factor 1.

@Ayesha what do you mean by more general values? Please elaborate? actually i need help in this context.

I had an idea i was thinking to share it with any student or teacher. Idea is to compare design, economy and durability (pros and corns) of the steel structure based shelter house, load bearing masonry house and concrete frame structure. Actually these systems are sequential in terms of cost(i think). But a detailed study will really help to introduce economical housing in region. Thanks