October 2, 2017

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Tags: RISAFloor ES, RISAFloor, New, Reporting

April 5, 2018 | RISAFoundation, New, Retaining Walls

Seismic Load Consideration for Retaining Walls

RISAFoundation has the capability to consider seismic loading for retaining walls. The Mononobe-Okabe formulation has been implemented. Though direct input of the maximum pressure at the top of the wall can also be defined to create the inverted triangular loading. For details on the Coulomb calculations and the variation due to the Seed & Whitman adjustments please check out the Wall Footings – Design topic in the RISAFoundation help file. RISA Help File…

November 16, 2017 | Loads, RISAFloor, New

Area Load Query Tool

RISAFloor v11 includes the new Area Load Query tool which allows users to visually inspect the area loads applied to a floor level…

March 5, 2015 | RISAFoundation, New

How to Model With Stem Walls in RISAFoundation

New in RISAFoundation V7 is a Stem Wall element. This element would be drawn on a slab element for the purpose of transferring wall loads into the slab. You can add stem walls either from the Draw Stem Walls dialog. The Stem Wall transfers the load at the top of the wall to the slab. That load will induce overturning on the slab and below it shows this loading graphically. Here we can see how this vertical offset induces overturning into the slab…