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Aalami CI Dec01 Paper
Aalami CI Dec01 Paper
Concrete
international The Magazine of the American Concrete Institute - an international technical society
Computer
Design of
Concrete
Buildings Structural Model
-page 28
-page 28
3 6 A Pencil, a Pad of Paper, and a Calculator
4 6 Ultra-High-Preformance Fiber-Reinforced
Concretes Structural Plan
Deflection Contour
A Y
Structural Plan
Tributary
Support
A Lines
Design
Sections
Design Sections
BY BIJAN O. AALAMI
3 3
2 2
Y Y
X X
1 1
(a) FINE MESH (b) COARSE MESH
Fig. 3: Distribution of moment about the y-axis at the face of the central supports and at the midspan using fine mesh and coarse mesh
Fig. 6: Pitfall in the potential misuse of general purpose FEM Fig. 7: Modeling of a beam/slab connection using nodes
design software when designing concrete floors and offsets
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INSTITUTE Structural Concrete Software System AMERICAN SEGMENTAL BRIDGE INSTITUTE