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What will be the the width of the column strip in the case of 2 different spans in the same direction?

Engineering Asked by user22341 on March 11, 2021

Say we have a plan of a building as follows and it is required to be designed using DDM (Direct Design Method). since the moment needs to distributed laterally into a column and middle strips and according to ACI 8.4.1.5 “A column strip is a design strip with a width on each side of a column centerline equal to the lesser of 0.25ℓ2 and 0.25ℓ1.” but in this case, both L1 and L2 have different spans and i dont know what to choose.

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The adjacent span ratio disqualify this project for DDM.

The limit is 0.66 or 1.3 ratio. Here we have 7.5/5= 1.5.

Answered by kamran on March 11, 2021

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