➢ Open New File

❖ Model Initialization
Model Initialization dialogue box appears
✓ Use Built-in Settings With
✓ Display Units : Metric SI
✓ Steel Section Database : Indian
✓ Steel Design Code : IS 800:2007
✓ Concrete Design Code : IS 456:2000

❖ New Model Quick Templates

✓ New Model Quick Templates dialogue
box appears
✓ Grid Dimensions (Plan) and Story Dimensions
• Uniform Grid Spacing is filled as required
• Simple Story Data is filled as required
# Entry of data can be done in foot or meter
# Other grids can be edited as required

❖ New Window appears in screen with all the primary data entered
➢ Grid Settings
✓ Right Click on Model
✓ Click on Add/Modify Grids
✓ Click on Modify/ Show Story Data
✓ Select Master Story for different Floor
“Yes” or “No”

• Click on Add New Grid System {for adding new grid system}
• Click on Modify/ Show Grid System {for modifying the previous grid system}
➢ Material Properties
✓ Define → Material Properties
✓ Click on Add New Material
✓ Add New Material Property appears and select following criteria for Nepal
• Region: India
• Material Type: Rebar or Concrete
• Standard: Indian
• Grade: HSYD FE415, HSYD Fe500, M15, M20, M30 etc. as required

✓ Material Property Data dialogue box appears

✓ Edit the values @ Material Name, Material Type
➢ Section Properties
Define → Section Properties
Frame Sections
✓ Add New Property
✓ Choose Frame Properties and Shape i.e., concrete or steel with rectangular or
circular section
✓ Display of Frame Section Property dialogue box
✓ Provide: Property Name (user ease), Material (from material defined for the
structure) and Section Dimension (Depth and Width)

Reinforcement
Click Modify/ Show rebar
# for beam: choose M3 Design Only (Beam)
# for Column: choose P-M2-M3 Design (Column)

Note: Always make a preliminary design of beam

and column sizes
Note: Cover for Beam = 30mm, Column = 40mm
and Slab = 20mm and foundation = 50mm
 Slab Sections
✓ Add New Property
✓ Display of Slab Property Data dialogue box
✓ Provide: Property Name (user ease), Slab Material (from material defined for
the structure) and Thickness

Note: Shell – thin is selected in

modeling type because membrane is
more rigid than shell and transfers
whole load to support

➢ Load Patterns
Define → Load Patterns

EQx and EQy are equal if T = 0.075h0.75

Type defined is seismic because we need

to look at the maximum shear force that
building can hold on any seismic activity.
If it’s equal then it’s good which implies
building can hold the same level force
from both X – direction and Y – direction.

Provide name of load, type of load, self-weight multiplier

For dead load only, self-weight multiplier is 1

For live load only, self-weight multiplier is 0
For other loads such as wall load, partition wall load, staircase load, floor finish, self-weight multiplier is 0
# For seismic load i.e., EQx and EQy, self-weight multiplier is 0 and use IS 1893: 2002
# For seismic load only modify lateral load is required.
# For EQx i.e., earthquake in X-direction, only direction and eccentricity at X direction chosen and for
EQy i.e., earthquake in Y-direction, only direction and eccentricity at Y direction is chosen
# Change the seismic coefficient factors

When center of mass ad center of rigidity don’t coincide and eccentricity is greater than 5%, then EQx
and EQy has to be changed from IS 1893:2002 to User Defined and give calculated value of Qi
Modify Lateral load

User Seismic Loads on Diaphragms

dialogue box appears
Substitute the values for Fx and Fy
that is calculated manually
➢ Mass Source
Define → Mass Source
✓ Display of Mass Source dialogue box
✓ Add New Mass Source
✓ In mass source, select Specified Load Patterns
✓ Mass multipliers for load patterns: Live load (0.25) and other load (1)
except earthquake loads
Note: Live load may be 0.5 for applied load > 3KN/m2

Note: No need to select Element Self Mass.

We choose all the load defined and specify the factors. For all dead loads factor “1” is
considered so that all dead loads participate during analysis but live load factor “0.25” i.e.,
25%. 25% is considered in analysis because during seismic activity the live load can’t be up
to maximum level at the same time occurrence of seismic activity.

➢ Beam, Column and Slab Construction

✓ Draw → Draw Beam/ Column/ Brace Objects { # for beams and columns}
✓ Draw → Draw Floor/ Wall Objects { # for slabs}
✓ Select required Property

➢ Joint Condition
Select all areas of ground floor plan
Assign → Joints → Restraints
➢ Load Assignment
❖ Beams
✓ Select Beams
✓ Assign → Frame Loads → Uniform
✓ Assign load on each beams using formula
{Unit weight of wall × (Height – Slab depth)
× Width of wall} × 60%
Note: For wall load during calculation consider
average 40% opening i.e., multiply total load by 0.6
❖ Slabs
✓ Select Slabs
✓ Assign → Shell Loads → Uniform
✓ Assign load on the slabs i.e., Dead, Live, Floor finish, etc.
# Always choose “Add to Existing Loads”

➢ Load Combinations
✓ Define → Load Combinations → Add Default Design Combo
✓ Select Concrete Frame Design

✓ All the combos are shown

➢ Diaphragm
✓ Define → Diaphragms → Add New Diaphragm
✓ Select Floor
✓ Assign → Joints → Diaphragms

Note: Diaphragms are defined so that it concentrate all lateral load to vertical load and make it act
from the center of mass.

Note: Rigid diaphragm is generally used to replicate the situation where slab deformation is
least and associated forces are null. When a slab is rigid each floor has 3 DOF for dynamic
analysis purpose (Center of mass in focal points). Semi rigid diaphragm is used when slab
deformation check is required by code or by design requirement.
➢ Analysis and Design
✓ Design → Concrete Frame Design → View/ Revise Preferences
Design Code = IS 456:2000

Note: Design Code IS 456:2000 is selected so that design check procedures considers
only IS – Code on the basis of which we had defined load and factors.

✓ Run Analysis
Check EQx and EQy, they must be equal or match with manually calculated (error
allowed up to 5%). To check whether structural members can withstand the assign
loads or not. If it fails change the sizes.

✓ Compare EQx, EQy

Display → Show Tables → Analysis → Results → Reactions → Base Reactions

Note: EQx and EQy should be equal, if not equal time period should be manually
calculated from code and is used in time of ETABS.

Display → Show Tables → Analysis → Results → Modal Results → Mode

Participating Mass Ratios

Note: Mass of building participating in mode 4 or 5 should be greater than 90%, which
signifies the building is safe.

Display → Show Tables → Analysis → Results → Displacements → Story Drift

 ✓ Design → Concrete Frame Design → Start Design Check

✓ Details in different portion of beam and column in figure

Upper Reinforcement Detail

Bottom Reinforcement Detail

✓ Design → Concrete Frame Design → Verify

All Members Passed
✓ If all members passed then OK. If not change
the section that is failed and repeat the
process.
✓ Display → Show Tables
✓ Tables → Design → Design Forces →
Beam or Column Design Forces as required
✓ Display of Forces in ETABS

✓ Copy forces from ETABS to Excel Sheet

✓ Compute the Shear forces and moment and design manually for these forces
➢ Display Results
❖ Display → Deformed Shape
❖ Select Mode and “1”
❖ Deformed shape is displayed with time period which should be nearly equal to 0.1n where, n
is number of story

➢ Shear Force and Moment Display

Display → Force/ Stress Diagrams → Frame/ Pier/ Spandrel/ Link Forces