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AoA everyone... I've got a question... The thing thats bothering me lately is that everyone says I should pursue a feild in which I've interest in, which I definitely agree with, but the problem is I dont know much about other fields except the one I have studied/heard about the most everywhere which is Structural Engineering, so THAT makes it the only field I have interest in without relating or comparing it with other fields. I am willing to know about other fields so that in the end I should have a pool of fields in my knowledge from which i can decide which one actually grabs my interest... I know I have tackled a lot of weird and bad teachers in my university who are either too old for teaching and bad at delivering knowledge and education which makes the subject they are teaching dull for us and I lose interest there (happened with teachers of courses: CV.Engg.Materials, Engg.Mechanics, Soil mechanics etc). so is there a way, website, method etc that gives to-the-point information about different fields in cv.engineering maybe few examples that might help me with deciding between the cross-roads? again, i am looking for something related to practical knowledge about fields and is not detailed so that i can take some time out of my busy schedule of studies+work to read it.... thanks i hope everyone can comprehend the nature of my problem here... :X

Mohammad, Width or extent of this thicker area will generally depend upon the following: a. Punching shear value. Width of thicker area in this case may be less than standard width of column strip in the relevant direction. For discussion regarding slab or mat strips, you may refer to the following thread: http://www.sepakistan.com/topic/1642-slab-design/ b. Site requirement e.g., sloping area where mat is to be provided at two different levels. Regards.

Mohammad, See the attached pictures, taken from sample SAFE model: (Note: Middle strip, shown in the pictures in- between the two 60 cm thick strips, is 100 cm thick.) Regards.

aadel, AFAIK, for this type of conversion, you will need text file (24414.2.$et) of your model. Required process should be as under. 1. Open text file of the model in Notepad. 2. In 'PROGRAM INFORMATION' portion, make following changes: a. Change the PROGRAM option to "ETABS", INSTEAD OF "ETABS 2015" b. Change the VERSION option to "9.7.4", INSTEAD OF "15.x.x" 3. Save the file as 'All files', with extension '.$et' 4. Import the newly created text file into ETABS 9.7.4. 5. Since ETABS 2015 contains a lot more new features (not available in older version 9.7.4), you will certainly see a number of error messages during this import, indicating the inability of program to import data regarding newer options and ignoring of the relevant commands. This is normal for imports of NEW version files, in Older versions of programs. Just keep on pressing 'OK' button on these messages, until import process has completed. 6. Save the imported file as ETABS 9.7.4 model (.edb) file. Note: You must be aware that the model file, imported by ETABS 9.7.4, would however not be same as the original ETABS 2015 file. Rather it would be deficient in several respects, as may be clear from the error messages displayed during import in older version. Therefore, you will have to check the model in detail, to see which respects the model is OK, and in which it is not. I don't know what an 'mdp' file is, as such I am unable to comment on export of such files in ETABS 2015. Regards.