My Internship Experience: A brand new approach

I offered my help to Ms. Aisyah to design and analyse the chalet that is located at Pulau Pangkor. It is a good opportunity to get myself expose and familiarise with ETABS. Architect drawings on plan view of ground floor, first floor, roof plan and elevation of the chalet was provided. As for today, only the grids and columns of the chalet was assigned, the beams for ground floor were also assigned there after.

The model and analysis of Pulau Pangkor's chalet continues today. The beam section, column section and slab thickness was assigned to the model. Based on British standard manual, the dead load of 9.3kN/m was assigned to the beam. On the other hand, the dead load assigned to the slab was 2.0kN/m^2, due to existance of Rendering, while cantilever slab has a dead load of 1.5kN/m^2. The live load that acts on the slab varries based on the usage, range between 2kN/m^2 to 4kN/m^2.

Today is the last day of 7th week, the model and analysis of Pulau Pangkor's chalet continues today. The third story which resembles the roof plan was assigned. The beam section was assigned. The column section was assigned. The slab thickness was assigned.

The model and analysis of Pulau Pangkor's chalet continues today. The previously assigned load was changed to:

Roof beam: Dead load = 1.5kN/m^2, Live load = 0.25kN/m^2

Roof slab: Dead load = 1.5kN/m^2, Live load = 1.5kN/m^2

Ground floor and first floor: Dead load = 1.5kN/m^2, Live load = 2.5kN/m^2

After conducting the analysis, errors were indicated at the angle columns and a few other beams located at the cantilever slab. Angle columns were changed to rectangular columns and larger beam section was assigned to failed beams.