I too have all those CRSI contest programs (in fact, I wrote the one
called "Vibes" and submitted it to CRSI because they would give you the
other programs free if you submitted one. I have these at home and will
look for Regie.
Bob Garner, S.E.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary L. Hodgson and Assoc. [mailto:ghodgson@bellnet.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:56 AM
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: Re: Rigid diaph. analysis with diagonal walls
Joe,
This may not be of any help, but there used to be a basic program called
Regie. It was written by an individual who submitted it to the Conc
Reinf Stl Inst (CRSI) who were sponsoring a contest for the best basic
programs in concrete. So I bought a copy of it from CRSI who offered all
of the better programs for sale. All you had to do was input the
co-ordinates of the wall intersections or wall ends and the centre of
rigidity and centre of mass, as best as I can remember it. As I recall,
it was kind of klunky, because you had no way of correcting an wrong
input, but it certainly made life easy if you got your input correct. I
always thought it would have been a good one to put into a spreadsheet
if you had the time and skill. I still have it somewhere- just have to
search.
Gary
Joseph R. Grill wrote:
>
> Daryl,
>
> Thanks, but the walls are skewed such that there is no direction to
> look at that will eliminate the question.
>
> Joe
>
> *From:* Daryl Richardson [mailto:h.d.richardson@shaw.ca]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:25 AM
> *To:* seaint@seaint.org
> *Subject:* Re: Rigid diaph. analysis with diagonal walls
>
> Joe,
>
> You might try rotating your orthogonal axes 45 degrees and look at the
> problem again. Sometimes a simple trick like this will let you see
> something that you missed the first time. Just a thought; may not be
> worth anything.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Regards,
>
> H. Daryl Richardson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> *From:* Joseph R. Grill <mailto:jrgrill@cableone.net>
>
> *To:* seaint@seaint.org <mailto:seaint@seaint.org>
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:28 AM
>
> *Subject:* Rigid diaph. analysis with diagonal walls
>
> Some time ago, it seems someone ask about a rigid diaphragm shear
> distribution to a wall system where some of the walls are diagonal
> to the orthogonal axes. I have looked through all my references
> and, of course, all the examples are pretty simple wall layouts,
> all at 90 degrees to each other. How do any of you take care of
> this situation? Are there any spreadsheets out there that will do
> this, or does anyone out there have an example from a reference
> that they could fax (or email) to me? Enercalc has a module to do
> this, but their new version does not contain the help module yet,
> so I can't get any background on it to see if I am inputting all
> the data correctly.
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Joe Grill
>
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