![]() Over the past two decades, ETABS has numerous mega-projects to its credit and has established itself as the standard of the industry.The need for special purpose programmer has never been more evident as Structural Engineers put non-linear dynamic analysis into practice and use the greater computer power available today to create larger analytical models.As a result, this analysis and design tool expedites data preparation, output interpretation and execution throughput. The input, output and numerical solution techniques of ETABS are specifically designed to take advantage of the unique physical and numerical characteristics associated with building type structures.Often we have two models a RAM gravity model and an ETABS lateral model. However, RAM is more suitable for the gravity design of steel floor systems, in my opinion. It is especially useful in seismic applications. For the gravity design of the concrete floor system, we use RAM Advance and SAFE.ETABS is also very useful in designing complex steel braced frame and moment frame lateral systems. ![]() We design the moment frames using PCA Slab. We design the piers of the shears walls for flexure and axial loads using PCA Column. ![]() Once we are able to limit the drift, we can output the forces from ETABS into a spreadsheet for design. ![]() Generally, ETABS is used for the analysis of concrete shear walls and concrete moment frames. ![]()
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