Question: Calculating Loads and Member Forces on a Structure The plan and elevation of a reinforced concrete building shown below is 7 bays long by 4

Calculating Loads and Member Forces on a Structure
The plan and elevation of a reinforced concrete building shown below is 7 bays long by 4 bays wide. The building has beams along building lines A through E and one-way slabs spanning between building lines A through E. Concrete shear walls around the elevators (between buildinglines 5 and 6) provides the resistance to lateral wind and earthquake forces. Construction is withnormal weight concrete with an assumed density of 150 pcf.Assume the building is used for residential space and the slab is 6 in. thick. The beams are 14 in. wide and have a total depth (i.e., including the depth of the slab) of 18 in., the bay dimensions are20 ft in the X direction and 30 ft in the Y direction, and the superimposed dead load is 18 psf. Refer to Table 1.1 in the Darwin text (also in Lecture 2 notes) for live loads (you may ignore live loadreduction factors).
For designing the one-way slab (framing in the North-South direction):
(i) calculate the critical (governing) factored gravity load combination (psf)
(ii) sketch the moment diagram and calculate* the maximum positive and negative bendingmoments on a 1-ft wide strip of slab. Indicate where these maximum moments occur along the slab span.
(iii) assuming a concrete modulus of Ec =3500 ksi and using an effective moment of inertia equal to half of the gross moment of inertia (i.e I_eff=0.5I_g), calculate* the maximum deflection of the slab under the service live load.*NOTE for calculating the moments, shears and deflections you will need to make some assumptions to relate the ideal boundary conditions in the design charts to the building frame
Calculating Loads and Member Forces on a

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