some people just love to say things are easy - some kind of strange ego thing lol.

Yea I ended up with a B in Calc 2 and my professor made everything harder that it should have been.

u guys r getting off topic here and are suppose to give me tips on how to start this project..

he hasnt posted the appendix yet so we have no clue how to give him advice

also maffrab just gave me a random segfault

i thought only c/c++ was regarded enough to do this crap but then again him running it on linux so fuck me

bump

You're so basic, son. Seems like a pretty simple matter of setting a few variables equal to the concentrated forces and summing their resulting moments. If you can't figure out how to get a copy of matlab, even though as someone else said if they're assigning this there's definitely a place at your school to use it, then that's your problem

This post was edited by Alexander the Great on Jul 10 2013 11:32am

do u know how to read? we already established that I got a copy of matlab.

use the simplified model provided

declare some arrays x and y of size i for wind on the width and the length of the building

since all you need is the BASE shear and turning moments
write a function f which determines the total wind force given i and whether its a length of width (call it say L1 and L2)

write a function say g and h, given i, and either L1 or L2. which determines the total contributing moment (ie, use matrix multiplication of your f array with the height array (ie. height(i) = i*height of floor), or the total base shear (matrix inner product of f with ones)

might help if you know matlab though, this is pretty easy

edit: to make your life easier you might want to be careful when using loops instead of matrix multiplication. I cant say which one is easier but MM is much faster, although for your case this point is kind of moot
if you hate the way MM works on matlab you might consider using loops

This post was edited by madeinchinars on Jul 10 2013 10:36pm

congratz bud! that's a great start