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There are two seperate analysis you will be doing of your 3D Concrete Frame:
1) At Service Load Combinations:-For Frame Drift, Member Deflections and Foundation Pressures (Soil Bearing Stress):
Based on section 8.8.1:
a) For Columns Use Iyy and Izz = 1.4X0.7Ig = 0.98Ig = Ig (at Service Load
combinations you can use Ig (uncracked) for Columns.
b) For Beams (Flexure) Use Iyy and Izz = 1.4X0.35Ig = 0.49Ig (say 0.5Ig or 50% of
gross Moment of Inertia for beams. Think of this even at Service Loads analysis
ACI Code wants you use only 50%Ig for Beams in Frame Analysis. This will
change your frame Drift, Member Deflections and may impact your Frame Member
Sizes to get to the allowable Drift, Member Deflections Values. STAAD/PRO Tech.
Reference Manual Section 3.3 has the same values of Concrete Cracked Section
Properties for Beams (50% Ig) for many years.
Point is using Gross Moment of Inertia Ig for Concrete Frame Analysis at Factored Load Combinations is simply wrong.
Some of us engineers still have not caught up with this change and use Gross Moment Of Inertia (Ig) for beams at Service
Load and Factored Loads. Based on ACI 318 Code we can not and should not do that.