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Hi Rifat, Generally your course books should suffice for that purpose. Are you looking for country specific books? Thanks.

Wall Load per running foot = (Wall ht.)(Wall Thickness)(Unit wt.) Suppose you have 9inch thick wall of ht. 12ft and unit wt. of clay masonry brick is 120lb/cft. Wall Load/Rft =(12)(0.75)((120)=1080 lb/ft =1.08kip/ft Line load would not be assigned directly to area element (slab,wall). So assign a dummy beam and apply line load to this dummy beam.

Based on Technical Report No. 65, Expansion Joints in Buildings: issued by Building Research Advisory Board, Division of Engineering, National Research Council, USA. As per Figure 1 in the above referenced publication, the maximum allowable building length without use of expansion joints, for design temperature change greater than 70º F (39º C) will be 0.85x350=297.5 ft = 90m. In view of above, we would like to avoid expansion joints in any building which is less than 90m in length, except where a seismic joint is required due to configuration of the building (plan irregularities, re‐entrant corners, etc.) or due to different lateral force‐resisting systems for the two parts of the building.

the best approach would be if you get it worked through pin connections. This will avoid lots of issues like moment at connections.

Thanks for the good wishes,that is really awesome,great to be connected

Hi Usman, Good to see you here. Just to let you know i have done my masters from Bauhaus and its a great institute. Donot miss the summer school as lots of engineers from around the world come and share there knowledge and experience in seismic design and perfromance based design. Gud luck

All kind of piles (I don't know what sand pile is) can take earthquake if they are designed for it. For liquefaction, piles installed by hammering would be better as you will compact the ground as you install them (like driven steel piles). Expert opinion should be taken from geotechnical engineer as this is more geotech domain.

thank you umer sahb