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Prepared by :
Vaibhav Mittal

Under Guidance from :
PK Relhan ; Munish Bansal
DESIGN SOLUTIONS INC.
S.C.O. 34, 2nd Floor, Sector 11, Panchkula, Haryana 134109,
Tele/Fax : 0172 4668010, Mob : +91-9357029010,Email: dsindia1@gmail.com






























Select object
Draw lines (Plan Elevation 3D)
Create secondary beam in region or at clicks
Create columns in region or at clicks
Create lines in region or at clicks
Draw areas
Draw rectangular
Create areas at clicks
Draw Walls
Create Wall at clicks
Select all
Getting familiar with Draw Bar
Snap to end points and mid points
Snap to grid intersections and points
Select by intersecting lines
Clear selection
Select previous
Option to work on one story,
All stories and similar stories


Units to be followed




















Choose .edb if you need to inherit
definitions from previous models.
For starting from scratch new models
select No.

Edit the Grid and story data in
custom Grid Spacing and
custom Story Data
New model and grid specification
Custom grid data

Custom story data




Selecting the code for design















































Getting familiar with define menu
Used to define material properties
Used to define desired line objects
Used to define desired area objects
Used to define static load cases
Used to define different type of load combinations
Used to define diaphragms
Used to define mass sources for earthquake loading






















Defining materials, frames and area sections

Click on this tab on define shortcut to or
from define menu define frame sections
Delete the unnecessary
frame sections
Add rectangular section
Frame sections





























Adding columns section
Adding Beams section





























Define area sections
Click this tabon define shortcut or from
define menu define area section
For walls
For slabs







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Drawing/Creating line
sections
To draw beams in plan
select and left click once
at the beginning of the line.
Drag the mouse to the end
location of the line and left
click again. Note that as the
mouse is dragged a dashed
line is visible. It indicates the
current extent of the
lineobject.

To create beams in plan
select and Click on any
grid and a line object is
drawn on that grid line
between the two adjacent
intersecting grid lines from
the same coordinate/grid
system.

To create columns in plan
select and Left click at
any location in a plan view to
draw a column (vertical line
object below).






























Drawing/Creating area
sections
To create slabs in plan
select from draw bar. Left
click once at the first corner
point of the area; drag the
mouse to each corner point
of the area object.
Alternatively you can also
use or .
To create walls in plan
select from draw menu
Left click once at the first
corner point of the area, drag
the mouse to each corner
point of the area object.





























Click this or select load cases command
from define menu to define load cases.
Click to add new loads as per
data shown in top row
Modify lateral load form modify
as specified
Defining load cases
Click to modify the highlighted
load as per the data shown at
top
Click to modify load
*Self-Weight multiplier to be
given unity for dead load only
and zero for rest













OR alternatively Etabs provides us to load default set of load
combinations














Click this tab form define
menu to specify load cases
Defining load combination
Click to add default Combos.
Use concrete frame designs





Etabs provides a variety of ways to select objects to ease and speed up the user
as per his requirement. Here are some ways select objects:-
Select an object by click on it
Select an object by clicking and dragging your mouse from left to right
around the object forming a rubber band box. It selects the objects fully
inside the box.


Select an object by clicking and dragging your mouse from Right to left
around the object forming a rubber band box. It selects the objects
intersecting the box and the objects fully inside the box.








Select objects


Selection can also be done by intersecting line. It selects objects
intersecting the selecting lines.

Another way of selecting objects is by selecting from select menu

Also selection can be made using the set building view options
and viewing only the desired objects (say beams)


























and select the required beams.
Also as defined earlier and are also used to select all and get
perivious selection respectivly.

is used to deselect all.































Hinged support
Fixed support
Getting familiar with
assign menu
* By default ETABS takes support as hinged




























For releasing frame releases
For proper allocation of local
axis

For proper allocation of frame
sections





























To define area sections
To define diaphragms
To assign local axis to area sections
















Used to assign loads to line objects
Used to assign Point loads to
lines
Used to assign distributed
loads to lines



Defining mass source



























It is necessary to define mass source to apply earthquake load.



Click to define Mass source
To define Mass from loads
take dead and live loads as a
combo shown or as specified.



Defining frame output stations



Select required line type i.e. beam or column


For beams set as 13 (or as required).
For columns set as 3 (or as required).
More the number of station more accurate the analysis is but it is
more time consuming.



Analysing the model














Set analysis options
Check model for warnings
Run Analysis





























Click for concrete design
View shows longitudinal
reinforcement
As our unit was meters and
reinforcement is comparatively
small, it is shown e.g. as
1.56e-04 so it becomes difficult
to read so change to a smaller
units.
Post analysis

Start concrete design/check of
structure
Now value of longitudinal
reinforcement is easily visible



Shear reinforcement

























Click display design Info in the drop down
beside
Select shear reinforcement from the
drop down box beside design output
and click OK
Now Etabs shows reinforcement
required by the sections against
shear at ends and in middle.
The values shown here shown are
used to calculate the specification of
shear stirrups to be provided in
accordance to

ASV/SV= shear reinforcement req.

Where ASV is area of stirrup
SV is spacing of stirrups




Before selecting any tables following steps are common for all.























Show tables
Select cases/combos
Display Tables





Select the table to be seen from the drop box
Now select tables to be seen as shown and click ok




























Select story range
Show Story Response plots
Select static load case
Displacement coordinates
Story response plot




To view bending moment diagram



















Select from here
Or here
Select component
Select load case