Code Compliance in Reinforce Concrete Design: A Comparative Study of USA Code (ACI) and Chinese Code (GB)

Table 3

Main load combination used in PKPM and ETABS.

Number	PKPM	ETABS
1	1.30 DL + 1.50 LL	1.4D L
2	1.00 DL + 1.50 LL	1.2 DL + 1.6 LL
3	1.30 DL ± 1.50 WL	1.2 DL + 1.0LL ± 1.0 WL
4	1.30 DL + 1.50 LL ± 0.90 WL	1.2 DL + 1.0 LL ± 1.0 WL
5	1.20 DL + 0.96 LL ± 1.30 EH	1.3 DL + 1.0 LL ±1 .0 EQ

Note. DL denotes static loads, LL denotes dynamic loads, WL denotes wind loads, and EH denotes seismic loads.