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If you're looking for FEA connection software, you may want to check Idea Statica or CYPE Connect. ------------------------------ Ramses Sanchez M.ASCE Principal Descon, Srl [email protected] ------------------------------

All available commercial software packages available are good. One more productive than others, or with more or less features, but they essentially do the same: ETABS, MIDAS GEN, RAM STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS, STAAD PRO, RISA, SCIA, ROBOT, RFEM, etc., etc. All of them are wonderful pieces of software engineering ...

Hello everybody, I'm starting to plan a design of a 19 stories (74.5 m) above ground RC Hotel building + 4 underground. Not very large in terms of plan area ( 600 m² = 6456 sq ft the rooms tower), but with a rooftop pool and social area. I live in a moderate to high seismic area (Ss = 0.95g, S1 =0.55g) ...

I would appreciate comments and thoughts about how ASCE7 - (05/10/15) considers the old UBC near-fault(field) factors. I'm under the impression they are already built-in with the mapped MCE spectral response accelerations and/or the Site Coefficients Fa & Fv, since you can pinpoint exactly your project ...