STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FORUM OF INDIA [SEFI]

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Can Any one help me to find out which is the largest suspended concrete floor in India. Not in terms of column to column spacing but the largest floor!

Which is the largest floor slab wi ...

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If some structure stands without proper design basis, we can't consider that as standard.
Without proper lateral load resisting system if a building is standing in zone V, then I believe colu ...

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In the resent release of National disaster management guidelines for Hospital Buildings, Prohibition of Flat slab and pre-stressed floor systems is suggested.

But I didn't get the reas ...

Hi all,
In the resent release of National disaster management guidelines for Hospital Buildings, Prohibition of Flat slab and pre-stressed floor systems is suggested.
But I didn't get the reason for ...

Dear,
You can refer SP:34 section 11 for RC hinges.

rahul

Dear ,
As per manual these new features, added to staad can be used in various ways.
Their are different methods for defining reference load, we can define it as gravity load (as you have expl ...

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] STAAD have changed a lot. I have used reference l ...

Dear Safian,
I am designing a 2B+G+10, building has part first basement and full second basement and from ground floor almost typical floors started. As per soil report raft foundation is recom ...

Dear Subramanian sir,
Thanks for correcting me,
As the calculation in above post is on the basis of is on the basis of strength its true that we can save lot of steel by using HSS but from ...

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Today the trend has started of moving towards TMT 500 steel bars or a bar conforming to IS 1786-2008 Fe 500.
You can save about 17% of steel over Fe415 by proper design which is about Rs. 1 ...