Shear Wall Design Manual Etabs Learning Tutorial

Shear Wall Design Manual Etabs Learning Tutorial

Contents

Chapter Title Pages

N. A.     Chapter List................................................................... i to iii

N. A.     Expanded Table of Contents........................................ v to xi

N. A.     Notation............................................Notation-1 to Notation-8

1        Introduction ............................................................ 1-1 to 1-5

2        Shear Wall Design Process.................................. 2-1 to 2-10

3        Design Menu Commands for Shear Wall Design... 3-1 to 3-5

4        Interactive Shear Wall Design and Review .......... 4-1 to 4-18

5        General Design Information ................................... 5-1 to 5-9

6        Wall Pier Design Sections...................................... 6-1 to 6-6

7        Wall Spandrel Design Sections.............................. 7-1 to 7-4

8        1997 UBC Shear Wall Design Preferences ........... 8-1 to 8-4

9        1997 UBC Shear Wall Design Overwrites............ 9-1 to 9-14

10       1997 UBC Design Load Combinations ...............10-1 to 10-6

11       1997 UBC Wall Pier Boundary Elements............11-1 to 11-6

12       1997 UBC Wall Pier Flexural Design ................12-1 to 12-18

13       1997 UBC Wall Pier Shear Design .....................13-1 to 13-4

14       1997 UBC Spandrel Flexural Design ................14-1 to 14-10

15       1997 UBC Spandrel Shear Design .....................15-1 to 15-5

16       Overview of Shear Wall Output...........................16-1 to 16-2

17       Output Data Plotted Directly on the Model..........17-1 to 17-9

18       Printed Design Input Data...................................18-1 to 18-9

19       Printed Design Output Data ..............................19-1 to 19-27

CHAPTER 1:        INTRODUCTION

Overview   1-1

Wall Pier Design   1-2

Wall Spandrel Design   1-3

Organization of Manual   1-4

Other Reference Information   1-4

ETABS Help   1-4

Readme.txt File   1-4

Recommended Initial Reading   1-5

CHAPTER 2:        SHEAR WALL DESIGN PROCESS

Typical Design Process for 2D Piers with Concentrated Reinforcing   2-2

Typical Design Process for 2D Piers with Uniform Reinforcing   2-4

Typical Design Process for 3D Piers   2-7

CHAPTER 3:        DESIGN MENU COMMANDS FOR SHEAR WALL DESIGN

Select Design Combo   3-1

View/Revise Pier Overwrites   3-2

View/Revise Spandrel Overwrites   3-2

Define Pier Sections for Checking   3-3

Assign Pier Sections for Checking   3-3

Start Design/Check of Structure   3-3

Interactive Wall Design   3-4

Display Design Info   3-4

Reset All Pier/Spandrel Overwrites   3-

Delete Wall Design Results   3-4

CHAPTER 4:        INTERACTIVE SHEAR WALL DESIGN AND REVIEW

General   4-1

Interactive Pier Design and Review   4-2

Design of a Simplified Section   4-2

General Identification Data   4-2

Flexural Design Data   4-3

Tension Design   4-3

Compression Design   4-4

Shear Design Data   4-4

Boundary Element Check Data   4-5

Design of a Section Designer Section   4-6

General Identification Data   4-6

Flexural Design Data   4-7

Shear Design Data   4-8

Boundary Element Check Data   4-8

Check of a Section Designer Section   4-9

General Identification Data   4-10

Flexural Design Data   4-10

Shear Design Data   4-11

Boundary Element Check Data   4-11

Combos Button   4-12

Overwrites Button   4-13

Section Top and Section Bot Buttons   4-13

Interactive Spandrel Design and Review   4-14

General Identification Data   4-14

Flexural Design Data   4-14

Top Steel   4-14

C Bottom Steel   4-15

Shear Design Data   4-16

Design Data for all Spandrels   4-16

Additional Design Data for Seismic Spandrels Only   4-17

Combos Button   4-17

Overwrites Button   4-18

CHAPTER 5:        GENERAL DESIGN INFORMATION

Defining Piers and Spandrels   5-1

Analysis Sections versus Design Sections   5-2

Units   5-3

Design Station Locations   5-4

Design Load Combinations   5-5

Wall Meshing and Gravity Loading   5-5

Using Frame Elements to Model Spandrels   5-8

CHAPTER 6:        WALL PIER DESIGN SECTIONS

General   6-1

Simplified Pier Design Dimensions and Properties   6-2

Design Dimensions   6-2

How ETABS Calculates the Default Dimensions   6-3

Material Properties   6-4

Section Designer Pier Effective Section for Shear   6-5

CHAPTER 7:        WALL SPANDREL DESIGN SECTIONS

Wall Spandrel Design Dimensions   7-1

Default Design Dimensions   7-3

Default Design Material Property   7-4

C CHAPTER 8:        1997 UBC SHEAR WALL DESIGN PREFERENCES

General   8-1

Shear Wall Preferences   8-2

CHAPTER 9:        1997 UBC SHEAR WALL DESIGN OVERWRITES

General   9-1

Pier Design Overwrites   9-2

LL Reduction Factor   9-8

EQ Factor   9-9

User-Defined Edge Members   9-10

Spandrel Design Overwrites   9-10

Making Changes in the Overwrites Dialog Box   9-13

CHAPTER 10:      1997 UBC DESIGN LOAD COMBINATIONS

Default Design Load Combinations   10-1

Dead Load Component   10-2

Live Load Component   10-3

Wind Load Component   10-3

Earthquake Load Component   10-3

Design Load Combinations that Include a Response Spectrum   10-4

Design Load Combinations that Include Time History Results   10-5

Design Load Combinations that Include Static Nonlinear Results   10-6

CHAPTER 11:      1997 UBC WALL PIER BOUNDARY ELEMENTS

Details of Check for Boundary Element Requirements   11-1

Example   11-5

CHAPTER 12:      1997 UBC WALL PIER FLEXURAL DESIGN

Overview   12-1

C Designing a Simplified Pier Section   12-1

Design Condition 1   12-3

Design Condition 2   12-6

Design Condition 3   12-6

Checking a Section Designer Pier Section   12-7

Interaction Surface   12-7

General   12-7

Formulation of the Interaction Surface   12-8

Details of the Strain Compatibility Analysis   12-12

Wall Pier Demand/Capacity Ratio   12-15

Designing a Section Designer Pier Section   12-17

CHAPTER 13:      1997 UBC WALL PIER SHEAR DESIGN

General   13-1

Determine the Concrete Shear Capacity   13-2

Determine the Required Shear Reinforcing   13-3

Seismic and Nonseismic Piers   13-3

Additional Requirements for Seismic Piers   13-3

CHAPTER 14:      1997 UBC SPANDREL FLEXURAL DESIGN

General   14-1

Determining the Maximum Factored Moments   14-2

Determine the Required Flexural Reinforcing   14-2

Rectangular Beam Flexural Reinforcing   14-3

Tension Reinforcing Only Required   14-4

Tension and Compression Reinforcing Required   14-4

T-Beam Flexural Reinforcing   14-6

Tension Reinforcing Only Required   14-8

Tension and Compression Reinforcing Required   14-9

CHAPTER 15:      1997 UBC SPANDREL SHEAR DESIGN

General   15-1

Determine the Concrete Shear Capacity   15-2

Determine the Required Shear Reinforcing   15-3

Seismic and Nonseismic Spandrels   15-3

Seismic Spandrels Only   15-5

CHAPTER 16:      OVERVIEW OF SHEAR WALL OUTPUT

General   16-1

CHAPTER 17:      OUTPUT DATA PLOTTED DIRECTLY ON THE MODEL

Overview   17-1

Design Input   17-2

Material   17-2

Thickness   17-3

Pier Length and Spandrel Depth   17-4

Section Designer Pier Sections   17-5

Design Output   17-5

Simplified Pier Longitudinal Reinforcing   17-5

Simplified Pier Edge Members   17-5

Section Designer Pier Reinforcing Ratios   17-6

Section Designer Pier Demand/Capacity Ratios   17-6

Spandrel Longitudinal Reinforcing   17-7

Shear Reinforcing   17-7

Spandrel Diagonal Shear Reinforcing   17-8

Pier Boundary Zones   17-8

CHAPTER 18:      PRINTED DESIGN INPUT DATA

Preferences   18-1

C Flags and Factors   18-1

Rebar Units   18-2

Simplified Pier Reinforcing Ratio Limits   18-2

Interaction Surface Data   18-3

Input Summary   18-3

Pier Location Data   18-3

Pier Basic Overwrite Data   18-4

Pier Geometry Data (Simplified Section)   18-5

Pier Geometry Data (Section Designer Section)   18-6

Spandrel Location Data   18-7

Spandrel Basic Overwrite Data   18-8

Spandrel Geometry Data   18-8

CHAPTER 19:      PRINTED DESIGN OUTPUT DATA

Output Summary   19-1

Simplified Pier Section Design   19-1

Section Designer Pier Section Design   19-2

Section Designer Pier Section Check   19-4

Spandrel Design   19-5

Required Reinforcing Steel   19-5

Detailed Output Data   19-6

Simplified Pier Section Design   19-6

Location Data   19-6

Flags and Factors   19-7

Material and Geometry Data   19-8

Flexural Design Data   19-8

Tension Design   19-8

Compression Design   19-9

Shear Design Data   19-10Boundary Element Check Data   19-10

Additional Overwrite Information   19-11

Section Designer Pier Section Design   19-12

Location Data   19-12

Flags and Factors   19-12

Material and Geometry Data   19-13

Flexural Design Data   19-14

Shear Design Data   19-15

Boundary Element Check Data   19-16

Additional Overwrite Information   19-17

Section Designer Pier Section Check   19-17

Location Data   19-17

Flags and Factors   19-18

Material and Geometry Data   19-18

Flexural Design Data   19-19

Shear Design Data   19-20

Boundary Element Check Data   19-20

Additional Overwrite Information   19-21

Spandrel Design   19-22

Location Data   19-22

Flags and Factors   19-23

Material and Geometry Data   19-23

Flexural Design Data - Top Steel   19-24

Flexural Design Data - Bottom Steel   19-25

Shear Design Data   19-25

Additional Shear Design Data for Seismic Spandrels   19-26

Additional Overwrite Information   19-27

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