Structural analysis of a buidling using Robot Structural Analysis
1) What are HVAC systems? Why are they essential in the modeling of buildings
Ans:-
- Heat , vetilation, air conditioning.
- It is a technology of indoor environmental comfort. it's goal is to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality
Important part of structure.(single family house,sky scrappers,industrial buildings etc..)
4) Why do we need to assess buildings/analyze while modeling elements? Does design affect modeling in anyways?
Ans:-
- It helps to calculating loads & internal forces.
- It helps to cross chek the engineering design.
- Can perform during design.
- Can analyze each and every individual element.
The design affects the modelling, it will help to design better models.
6) What is energy analysis and why do we need to consider it while modeling in Revit?
How does the factor of sustainability improve the quality of your design?
Ans:- It is the traditional method of assessing the way the energy is used in an operation involving the physical or chemical processing of materials and transfer conversion of energy.
Four general principles:-
- Calculating heat loss and gain
- calculating the energy
- calculating the requirement
- Evaluting the cost.
Factor of sustainability improves thequality of dsign:-
- Low energy
- Impact of climatic change.
- Resource consumption
- Qulity snd dursbility ifprice
- Non-toxic materials.
2) From week 7 assignment, based on the building designed use the same Revit file to design a HVAC system for each floor to cover the topics included in the class.
a. Typical HVAC unit includes Distribution center
b. Collector
c. Ducts
d. Blower
Ans:- Open system template and link the architectural model to it and go to system tab and choose air terminal by property browser select the required size & type and then select mechanical equipment and load family go to mechanical folder and MEP then choose the connecting duct and then go to model by ctrl button choose the path and select the duct option in ribbon tab then path will light up and then choose the Generate the layout option in ribbon tab choose the type of layout and finish it off.
3) Use the add-ins tab to load plug-ins for robot structural analysis to your Revit software
Ans:- The OS verion must be win64 to install this robo structural analysis.
Go to the cart option which is visible at account and get related version.if you can't get it and then go to browser typr robot structural analysis tool kit and then give all requireed info and complete it.
5) From the structural model developed in week 6 and 7, export the complete analytical model to robot structural analysis.
a. List your assumptions on what boundary conditions will be realistic for the analysis approach
b. Use the design standards to decide what loads must be applied to floorings based on the type of structure decided
c. List the load combinations and include them in the analysis model
d. Analyze the building and report the following results
i. Maximum Moment in each floor for all Load Combinations
ii. Maximum Displacement in each floor for all Load combinations
iii. Lateral Displacement in building for all Lateral Load combinations
e. After analysis, do you think you have a better approach or idea in modeling structural members?
Ans:-
- Create the new structural model by using structural template and connect the columns and beams.
- By using analyze tab provide load cases ,load combinations,boundary conditions to it.
- then the model turns into as shown below.
Then submit theis model into robo structural analysis link and turn it into analyze and then create required nodal provisions.
By chcking the results we can modify the conditions of loads too.
