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 beam- spacing in
Material
column layout Etabs
Properties &
with (centre line
centreline Beam-Column
spacing of
sizes
beams)
DESIGN STEPS
Assign Primary Define load
Model the Loads combinations
Structure using Using IS Codes & assign
drawing tools as per site support
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 :
[email protected]
