Welcome to the Seismic Load Calculator

This simple wizard will assist you in determining the maximum design base shear for the building you specify. This wizard's calculations are based on the 1994 Uniform Building Code.

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Building Height

What is the floor-to-floor height of the building in feet?   feet

How many floors are in the building?   floors

Building Mass

Building Dimensions What is length of the building?    feet
What is width of the building?   feet
Building Loading What is the dead-load in psf for the building?   psf
What is the live-load in psf for the building?   psf

Building Importance

The importance factor will add additional seismic load requirements to your building if your building is deamed an essential structure in a natural disaster.

Importance Factor

Building Structure

Please specify the intended strcutural system. The intended structural system will take into account both the material selected and the ductility of the structural system selected.

Structural System

Building Site

Please specify the following information as indicated by your soils engineer or soils report.

UBC Seismic Zone

UBC Soil Factor

Send Data to the Server

We have now collected all of the necissary information and we are ready to send that information to our server for processing.

Click 'Send' when you are ready to send the information to the server