JUNIOR DESIGN ENGINEER

SatyaVani Projects and Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

A- 203, Kushal Towers, Khairtabad, Hyderabad – 500 004.
Tel: +91 40 39804646.
ETABS
 INTRODUCTION
In the world of Structural Engineering, a lot of design enhancement and
development arises since the beginning of structural design.
These developments includes use of structural design software which aims to
enhance our ability as structural engineer to come up with safe and sound
designs.

 The Various design software's available in the market are

STAAD Pro, ETABS, SAFE, SAP 2000, TEKLA, Midas, ADAPT…
 Among them STAAD Pro and ETABS are leading design software's in the
market.
 ETABS is short form for Extended Three-dimensional Analysis of
Building System.
 It is a Structural engineering design software, Primarily developed
to analyze, design and produce a detailing of a structure.
 It is developed by computer & Structures, Inc. company commonly
known as CSI
 ETABS is available in three levels:
Plus, Nonlinear, and Ultimate
 ETABS FEATURES

 User Interface
 Modeling
 Building components
 Loading
 Load Cases & Combinations
 Analysis
 Design
 Output & Display
 Reporting
 Tools
 Import & Export
 User Interface

One Window, Many Views

Users have no limit on the number of model windows and views
for model manipulation and data views.
Direct X graphics with hardware accelerated graphics allow
for navigation of models with fly-throughs and fast rotations.
 Modeling
Templates

ETABS has a wide selection of templates for quickly starting a new model.
Model Views

Analytical Model View Physical Model View

Grid Systems
Drawing Tools

Intelligent snaps

Architectural Tracing
Plans and Elevations
Building Components

Beams, Columns, Braces

In ETABS, beams, columns, and

braces are frame elements that
can be straight or curved. 
Section Properties

ETABS has a built-in library of

standard concrete, steel, and
composite section properties

Section Designer can be used

for more complex sections.
Shells (Walls, Floors, Ramps)

Shell elements are used to

model walls, floors, and ramps.

A layered shell element is

available in ETABS that considers
mixed material composite
behaviour
Shear Walls

Wall Stacks
Customizable wall configuration
templates help you define your wall
section properties with ease by drawing
multilevel wall configurations in a single
click.

When you draw walls using the wall

stack, all pier and spandrel labelling is
automatically assigned.
Piers & Spandrels

Pier and spandrel labels

produce integrated shears
and moments for design
purposes
Link Elements

Different link elements available to

accurately represent the behaviour
of a structure.

Link elements types include

Linear, Multi-linear Elastic,
Multi-linear Plastic,
Gaps, Hooks,
Dampers,
Friction Isolators, Rubber Isolators, and
Triple Pendulum Isolators.
Floor Diaphragms

Rigid, semi-rigid, and

flexible floor diaphragms
can be defined in ETABS.

Diaphragms can be
assigned to joint objects or
area objects.
 Loading
ETABS will automatically generate and apply seismic and wind loads
based on various domestic and international codes.
Point, Line, Area, and Thermal Loads

when it comes to assigned loads.

Uniform or non-uniform surface loads can be
assigned in any direction, not just gravity.

Uniform or trapezoidal loads can be defined on

lines in any direction.

Thermal load can be assigned to joints, lines,

and areas.
 Load Cases and Combinations

ETABS allows unlimited

number of load cases
and combinations.

Load combination types

include linear additive,
envelope (min/max)…
 Analysis

ETABS dynamic analysis include the calculation of vibration modes using

Ritz or Eigen vectors, response-spectrum analysis, and time-history analysis
for both linear and nonlinear behaviour.
 Design

Concrete Frame Shear wall

 Steel joist
Steel Frame

Composite Beam & column

 Output & Display

Mixed Units
Deformed Geometry

Users can display deformed geometry based on any load

or combination of loads, as well as animations of modes.
 Shell Force and Stress Contours

Shell forces and stress contours can be seen for different

load case, load combination, or modal case.
Reaction Diagrams

Support reactions can be

displayed graphically on the
model either as vectors or
as tabular plots for selected
reaction components.
Tabular Output
 Video Animations

Generates video (.avi) files to visually display a set of

analysis results that vary over a particular time period,
such as in a time history analysis.
 Rendered Views

Rendered views can used to create images to include in

client reports. ETABS has multiple lighting options,
shadows, and texture options to create life-like images of
your structures.
 Reporting

Report Generation
 Tools
Section Designer

Section Designer is a utility that is built into ETABS.

It allows users the ability to create specialized sections.
 Import and Export
Supported Formats

ETABS supports many industry standards for

importing and exporting data.

Autodesk Revit Structure,

AutoCAD (DXF/DWG), CIS/2, IFC, and SDNF
are all supported. ETABS also supports
exporting of a model to an Microsoft Access
database.
ETABS is a BIM Compatible software
OVERVIEW OF ETABS WINDOW
DESIGN STEPS

Enter grid
Define
Prepare spacing in
Material
beam-column Etabs
Properties &
layout with (centre line
centreline Beam-Column
spacing of
sizes
beams)
DESIGN STEPS

Assign Primary Define load

Model the Loads combinations
Structure
Using IS Codes & assign
using drawing
as per site support
tools
conditions conditions
DESIGN STEPS

Analyse the Design the

Detailing of
Structure & Structure &
Beams &
Check for apply design
Columns
deflection. checks
ASSIGNMENT NO 9
Analyze & design a structure for the given floor plan..

The assignment should be sent by mail in the following format,

Subject: SIE Online Training Course Junior Design Engineer
Your Registered Mobile No. 98******24-YOUR NAME-SIEJDE-XX
(XX – Assignment No.)
Email : sieoc.jde@gmail.com