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    Etabs: Modeling of Structural Systems

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    ETABS is engineering software used to analyze and design multi-story buildings. It allows users to model building geometry, apply loads, and perform static and dynamic analysis. Analysis methods include both linear and nonlinear options. ETABS also features design capabilities and generates load diagrams, section cuts, and animated responses. It is interoperable with other software and can import/export models. ETABS is suitable for a wide range of structures from simple frames to complex high-rises.

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    ETABS is engineering software used to analyze and design multi-story buildings. It allows users to model building geometry, apply loads, and perform static and dynamic analysis. Analysis methods include both linear and nonlinear options. ETABS also features design capabilities and generates load diagrams, section cuts, and animated responses. It is interoperable with other software and can import/export models. ETABS is suitable for a wide range of structures from simple frames to complex high-rises.

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    ETABS is engineering software used to analyze and design multi-story buildings. It allows users to model building geometry, apply loads, and perform static and dynamic analysis. Analysis methods include both linear and nonlinear options. ETABS also features design capabilities and generates load diagrams, section cuts, and animated responses. It is interoperable with other software and can import/export models. ETABS is suitable for a wide range of structures from simple frames to complex high-rises.

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    ETABS is engineering software used to analyze and design multi-story buildings. It allows users to model building geometry, apply loads, and perform static and dynamic analysis. Analysis methods include both linear and nonlinear options. ETABS also features design capabilities and generates load diagrams, section cuts, and animated responses. It is interoperable with other software and can import/export models. ETABS is suitable for a wide range of structures from simple frames to complex high-rises.

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    ETABS

    ETABS is an engineering software product that caters to multi-story building analysis and
    design. Modeling tools and templates, code-based load prescriptions, analysis methods and
    solution techniques, all coordinate with the grid-like geometry unique to this class of
    structure. Basic or advanced systems under static or dynamic conditions may be evaluated
    using ETABS. For a sophisticated assessment of seismic performance, modal and direct-
    integration time-history analyses may couple with P-Delta and Large Displacement effects.
    Nonlinear links and concentrated PMM or fiber hinges may capture material nonlinearity
    under monotonic or hysteretic behavior. Intuitive and integrated features make applications of
    any complexity practical to implement. Interoperability with a series of design and
    documentation platforms makes ETABS a coordinated and productive tool for designs which
    range from simple 2D frames to elaborate modern high-rises.

    Modeling of Structural Systems


    Fundamental to ETABS modeling is the generalization that multi-story buildings typically
    consist of identical or similar floor plans that repeat in the vertical direction. Modeling
    features that streamline analytical-model generation, and simulate advanced seismic systems,
    are listed as follows:

    1. Templates for global-system and local-element modeling


    2. Customized section geometry and constitutive behavior
    3. Grouping of frame and shell objects
    4. Link assignment for modeling isolators, dampers, and other advanced seismic systems
    5. Nonlinear hinge specification
    6. Automatic meshing with manual options
    7. Editing and assignment features for plan, elevation, and 3D views
    Loading, Analysis, and Design
    Once modeling is complete, ETABS automatically generates and assigns code-based loading
    conditions for gravity, seismic, wind, and thermal forces. Users may specify an unlimited
    number of load cases and combinations.
    Analysis capabilities then offer advanced nonlinear methods for characterization of static-
    pushover and dynamic response. Dynamic considerations may include modal, response-
    spectrum, or time-history analysis. P-delta effect account for geometric nonlinearity.
    Given enveloping specification, design features will automatically size elements and systems,
    design reinforcing schemes, and otherwise optimize the structure according to desired
    performance measures.

    Output, Interoperability, and Versatility


    Output and display formats are also practical and intuitive. Moment, shear, and axial force
    diagrams, presented in 2D and 3D views with corresponding data sets, may be organized into
    customizable reports. Also available are detailed section cuts depicting various local response
    measures. Global perspectives depicting static displaced configurations or video animations
    of time-history response are available as well.
    ETABS also features interoperability with related software products, providing for the import
    of architectural models from various technical drawing software, or export to various
    platforms and file formats. SAFE, the floor and foundation slab design software with post-
    tensioning (PT) capability, is one such option for export. CSI coordinated SAFE to be used in
    conjunction with ETABS such that engineers could more thoroughly detail, analyze, and
    design the individual levels of an ETABS model.
    While ETABS features a variety of sophisticated capabilities, the software is equally useful
    for designing basic systems. ETABS is the practical choice for all grid-like applications
    ranging from simple 2D frames to the most complex high rises.

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