College of Engineering and Technology (CoET)

Weekly Report No: 3 from 07/08/2023 to 11/ o8/2023

Day Brief description of work performed Hours

Exporting the beam and column detailing from ETABS in DXF format
Monday using the drawing manager for further editing.
Slab detailing using the strip area method. 8
Exporting section and elevation of slab from ETABS to dxf files.

Tuesday NANENANE PUBLIC HOLIDAY.

Design of roof slab (slab 175 due to presence of water tanks).

Wednesday Structural detailing of the roof slab. 8
Exporting roof slab detailing from ETABS in DXF format.

Thursday Modification and editing including naming of the previously exported 8

beam detailing in DXF using AUTOCAD2021.

Friday Modification and editing including naming of the previously exported 8

beams detailing in DXF using AUTOCAD.
Total hrs. 32

Sequence of operations for main job

No Operation Tools, Machinery, Equipment
DESIGN OF SLAB AND DETAILING
Method used during the design of slab is the strip
area method.
1 The drawing of strip was done automatically ETABS software
2 Firstly, the floor to be designed was selected Eurocode
3 All meshed slab panel were deleted Laptop
4 Then drawing of new slab panel and assigning of Mouse (essential in modelling the
the live load and dead load new slabs)
5 The load combination assigned for the design was
load combination two which include dead load and
masonry load with a scale factor of 1.35 and live
load with a scale factor of 1.5
6 Slabs were analyzed by running the analysis
7 The design of the slab. And during the design load
combination two was used
8 Since the flexural design display did not indicate
any member that failed then the design was ok.
9 Detailing of the designed slab

Signature Training Officer Date

 Details of main job

DESIGN OF SLAB
In ETABS slabs can be designed in two ways, first by strip area method and secondly by FEM method.
In the strip area method, the strips can be drawn in two ways, manual or automatic.
The method used during the design of slab was the strip area method there were strips along y direction and
strips along x direction. and the slab panel is divided into two strips which are edge/end and middle strips.
The automatic method was used to draw the strips.

PROCEDURES
Firstly, the floors to be designed were selected and the meshed slabs were deleted, and new slabs were drawn
or modelled. Loads (dead and live) were assigned to the slabs.
In the drop-down menu of view toolbar set grid visibility option was selected and, on the drop, down menu of
the edit toolbar the assign/edit design strip option was selected and strips along x and along y were generated.

Check for error free model was conducted by running the analysis and setting the load cases to run and
ensuring that no warning message is generated.
In the design toolbar drop down menu the concrete slab design option was selected, and the view/revise
preferences option was opted.
Under the same concrete slab design menu, the floors to be designed were selected by selecting the select
stories to be designed option.
Under the same concrete slab design menu, the load combinations were set to load combination two and then
the start design option was selected.
After the design is complete the flexural design display was selected from the display menu.
Since the flexural design display did not indicate any member that failed then the design was okay, but if it
happens that some members have failed then you must check the material properties used and SI units.

Drawn Date Name: BUBERWA Checked Date Name

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