Applying Wind loads to Diaphragms

Applying Wind loads to Diaphragms

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Applying Wind loads to Diaphragms

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Hello, 

In RSA can we apply wind loads to Diaphragms? 

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Romanich
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HI @Anonymous,

If you mean to the center of gravity - no, but you may look at this workaround:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/robot-structural-analysis-forum/api-diaphragmer-work-with-diaphragms-in-another-way/td-p/7669195

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@Romanich

Thank you very much for the reply.

Yes I mean, in Etabs we can define a rigid or semi rigid diaphragm for a slab and apply manually calculated wind loads to the diaphragm easily. Can we do that in Robot?