Slab Loads
Posted: 13 Oct 2017, 21:22
I prepared my model in Seismobuild and exported this model into Seismostruct as explained in the tutorials. Everything was fine and I did pushover analysis without any problem. But I could not be sure about the permanent loads. I have already defined dead and live loads on the slab during seismobuild modeling stage. But I could not find these forces in seismostruct after exporting the model (actually there are no slabs in seismostruct and I can not check if these slab loads exist in seismostruct) . Are these dead and live slab loads taken into account in seismostruct after the model is exported from seismobuild? Or should I define the slab loads once again as equivalent distributed loads on the beams in case of seismostruct? Thanks in advance..