Mona.El Kass - Civil Engineering
Any structure in the world begins with an architectural plan of the elevation, plans and 3D views drawn by an architect, followed by structural calculations and checks and design by a structural or civil engineer.
In this project, we will see the general steps used by a civil engineer to design a reinforced concrete residential building in Lebanon, using Autocad, Etabs, Safe, S-concrete and Excel Softwares.
It begins with architectural elevation (Fig. 1) and plans of the building (Figures 2 and 3), that the architectural engineer has drawn, by making assumptions for the column sections and places, as well as the shear walls distribution and thicknesses.
Your role as a structural or a civil engineer is to check if the column sections are good to retain the building, and if the shear walls are well distributed. You also have to find the reinforcement in all the structural elements: columns, shear walls, retaining walls, beams, slabs, stairs and foundation.
First of all, delete all the non-structural elements (windows, doors…) and draw the model on “ETABS Software” as you can see in “Figure 5”.
