Title:
Verification of Proposed Design Methodologies for Effective Width of Slabs in SlabColumn Frames
Author(s):
Jacob S. Grossman
Publication:
Structural Journal
Volume:
94
Issue:
2
Appears on pages(s):
181-196
Keywords:
damping; design methodologies; drift limits; ductility; dynamic
properties; effective width; flat plate; redundancy; seismic; serviceability;
strength design; structure; wind;
DOI:
10.14359/472
Date:
3/1/1997
Abstract:
This paper evaluates several design methodologies for lateral loads using recent flat slabcolumn frame experimental data1. This data considers the effects of connection and panel geometry, as well as the cracking caused by construction loads, gravity loads and lateral loads. The design methodologies evaluated in this paper are as follows: the methodology proposed by the researchers of the experimental data1; an earlier design methodology2 (which has been used since the late 1970s in the design of many structures by this author); and a permutation of this earlier design methodology. A ôrationalö methodology to estimate the contribution of slabcolumn frames to the stiffness of 3D structures at various lateral load levels of interest (serviceability, strength design, and limit states), along with the results of initial efforts to verify this methodology via measurements of highrise flat slab structures, is presented.