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Taking this discussion further, compression steel in a cantilever slab will help in increase of stiffness of the slab and thus help in reduction of deflection.
I am of the opinion that cantilever ba ...

Dear Er Sarif,
In addition to typical design for DL+LL, the stringer beam has to be designed for DL+Half LL assuming the half LL is fully on one side of the beam. This will result in UDT on the gi ...

Dear Er Elakkiaraj,
ETABS uses IS13920 to design members when Ductile design parameter is used (under View/Revise overwrites). This is the default for any member created in a model even after all ...

Dear Er Mathew,
While I agree that ETABS is more user friendly compared to STAAD Pro, please also make sure to note that there are also a few advantages of STAAD over ETABS. For example,
1. Inpu ...

Dear Sir,
I think the simplest way is to change I value so that Ah gets boosted to the required minimum. For example, in the above case, Ah has to be boosted from 0.005 to 0.007 (40%). Hence, if ...

Dear Er Sukanta Adikari,
You are correct. While on the one hand BIS has removed the clause in IS 1893 Part 1 regarding reduced LL in Load combination, it has failed to remove the equivalent claus ...

Dear Sirs,
As the IS 1893 code is newer, the usage of reduced LL in load combination is not allowed any more. This is consistent with the new NBC code also.

Yours sincerely
S Arunkumar

Dear Sir,
Clause 7.3.3 in IS 1893 Part 1 2002 code allowed the reduction of live load in load combinations. This clause has been removed in latest (2016) revision.

Hope that helps
Yours sincer ...

Dear Sir,
As per IS 1893 2016, clause 7.11 says that the deformations have to be calculated based on reduced moments of inertia given in clause 6.4.3.

Yours sincerely
S Arunkumar

Dear Sir,
For Q1, IS 1893 2002 code allowed usage of reduced LL in the load combination. This has been removed (disallowed) in 2016 revision.

Not sure I understand Q2. Please explain.

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