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EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT BUILDINGS STRUCTURAL FRAME LOADING

  STRUCTURAL FRAME LOADING The structural frame is designed to withstand, in a constant basis, the vertical gravitational loads (self weight, masonry walls, floor coverings, cars, furniture, people etc) and not in a continuous but in a periodical basis, the wind and snow actions. Moreover it must always bear the “self in- duced” loadings caused […]

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ETABS IBC 2003 Seismic Loads

IBC 2003 Seismic Loads To define earthquake and wind loads to the structure, you must go to Define > Static Load Cases. You can see that there are two default load cases already defined, DEAD and LIVE. Type EQX in the LOAD box, select a QUAKE type case, and then select the IBC 2003 seismic

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