I have a building that consists of two elevated p.t. slabs with 5 stories of wood frame on top. I have read the "modeling podium slabs" suggestions and it seems my best bet is a two-stage analysis. I guess I would have to model the 5 story wood building in its own model using "other" properties and manually input the loads into my concrete model? I also read where you have to estimate the E for the wood framed walls based off deflections which sounds very time consuming. Is there any other way to do this building in RAM?
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