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Loads on Two-way Slab Deck

The applied gravity loads in the two-way slab deck region are distributed on a quadrilateral floor mesh. The surface, line or point load applied on each quadrilateral mesh is then resolved to obtain the equivalent nodal loads on the nodes of meshed floor. The analysis considers the stiffness of slab-deck, beams, columns and walls on that floor as calculated by the program using the properties specified in the modeler.