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Salam Request to the admin and open to comments/suggestions from other senior members. I suggest there should be an open monthly/bi-monthly/tri-monthly meeting of forum, city based, with the members available in different areas of the country. This is necessary to improve the activity on the forum as well as concrete output from the discussions on the forum. At first Rawalpindi/Islamabad City circle may arrange a meeting after eid , i propose the date 8th,9th july, second weekend after eid. Out-city members are also invited to attend the meeting.

Glad to be on board

Dear All, I have just finished modifying a bunch of stuff related to member roles and I am very excited to announce it. There are some new member roles that have been created: 1) SEFP Associate As you know that I have been requesting help with a number of stuff on SEFP and there are very generous people who have volunteered. To recognize their effort, I have created this role. An example is @Saad Pervez, who is doing an excellent job running our Social Media pages. From now onwards, you will find him assigned to SEFP Associates. Thanks Saad for your help. 2) SEFP Contributor There are a few members who have been with us through thick and thin. Because, they have regularly answered questions and contributed to forum by not only providing information but their engineering judgement, this role has been created in recognition of their efforts. @Ayesha has been assigned to this and we look forward to add more members to their club. 3) SEFP VIP @EngrUzair deserves this without any question. He is the most senior member of the forum providing invaluable support. Not only this but he has also been a teacher at our beloved Alma Mater. I have created this category in recognition to his efforts. We "might" be adding very few people to this role in upcoming years. 4) Moderators and Super Moderators Our current staff consists of @waqar saleem, @Rana and @BAZ. @Rana and @BAZ have global moderation over the forum and @waqar saleem is currently moderating all the technical sections. They all are doing a great job and I am very thankful them. Because of overall moderation assignment, I have split moderators in Super Moderator and Moderators. Supermods might also get portion of Admin rights over coming years. I have a plan for that but nothing set in stone. Like always, please provide your feedback and let me know what else should be done/ undone. Thanks.

Hello Everyone, If you ever wanted to contribute towards SEFP, here is your chance. We at SEFP need help with the following: 1) 2 volunteers to help us run our Facebook page. If you don't mind taking 10 minutes out each day to share a few articles from this website to the Facebook page, then this position is for you. 2) SEFP Mentoring Circle Coordinator is required. We are planning to start Mentoring Circle and would need someone to be the co-ordinator of the program. If you are interested, please let me or any other moderators know. Thanks.

i volunteer myself for any kind of job for the SEFP !!! i can convince some members also to whom i have personal interaction.

Thats great!!! SEFP VIP i liked most.

footing is of 6ft thickness for which i proposed more than 2 layers of temp/shrinkage reinf.

A catastrophic event of landslide, slope cutting without protection is very dangerous, one should avoid or keep proper considerations. VID-20170511-WA0009[1].mp4

this provision is not applicable to minimum shrinkage temperature requirements case. temperature/shrinkage reinforcement should be placed in 2 or 3 layers from top to bottom, because just two layers at top and bottom will not serve the purpose and shrinkage cracks will definitely propagate.

But keep in mind, this would change the building system and R factor.

Are you running cracking analysis? If yes, thats the reason. If no, then are you using the same modifiers as in ETABS?

Please provide a sketch.

Just be extra cautious about the uplift due to geometry of the structure under gravity loads. Make sure you provide enough thickness to counter it.

Just to add what Ayesha said, I remember way back, that to convert the triangle and trapezoidal loads to equivalent UDL you multiply it by 1.33 or 1.30. As I mentioned refer to Reynold's book, it explains various cases in detail. Following is an attachment from Reynolds's Reinforced Concrete Designer's Handbook - 10th Edition

apply same modifiers in safe as in etabs then check

Hello Everyone, This log is intended to keep track of all consistent design articles. It would also help me assign the document numbers as the articles come out. If you have an article or post that you will like to get included in SEFP Consistent Design Series, please PM me or any of the moderators. Torsion - Reinforced Concrete Members; Doc No: 10-00-CD-0001 1997 UBC Vertical Earthquake Term; Doc No: 10-00-CD-0002 UBC Seismic Drift Limits; Doc No: 10-00-CD-0003 Diaphragm Flexibility; Doc No: 10-00-CD-0004 (Update Required) Pile Design: Doc No: 10-00-CD-0005 Comments/ Observations regarding modelling in Etabs; Doc No: 10-00-CD-0006 Beam Column Joint; Doc No: 10-00-CD-0007 Bracing Definition; Doc No: 10-00-CD-0008 (Coming soon) Location of Base for Seismic; Doc No: 10-00-CD-0009 (Coming Soon) Long Term Deflection of Beam; Doc No: 10-00-CD-0010 (Coming Soon) Thanks.

Hello shanimalik,. Congrats on completing your bachelors degree. Here are websites for a few respectable Canadian Universities. You can visit their webpage and check out the Graduate Students section. It would provide you information with how to create an account and apply for masters program. 1) http://www.civil.engineering.ualberta.ca 2) https://schulich.ucalgary.ca/departments/civil-engineering 3) http://www.civil.ubc.ca 4) http://civil.engineering.utoronto.ca Hope that helps. Thanks.