Structural Abuse
Structural Abuse
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Just thought this was an interesting topic.
When have you seen the builder effectively violate the structural integrity of your design because of a clash with services e.t.c.
Here is a good (meaning bad) example:
http://www.dbp.org.uk/cs/DBP00042.pdf
When have you seen the builder effectively violate the structural integrity of your design because of a clash with services e.t.c.
Here is a good (meaning bad) example:
http://www.dbp.org.uk/cs/DBP00042.pdf






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"Never over estimate people inteligence - some people are stupid"
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Never, but never question engineer's judgement
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Cutting out of the webs of a bar joist to pass ductwork thru it.
Cutting of a beam to run ductwork and then replacing the beam with jogging the beam around the ductwork in plan (one continuous beam... like a crankshaft in plan)
Removal of bracing
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The guy who did that should be sacked immediately!
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That's a column (sic) not a beam :)
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Let us engineers open our eyes and see beyond beyond that!
Practicing engineering is hard than studying it!!!
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For sure! Our lecturers used to say to us that we will only learn 10% of what we need to know at university the rest on the job. I agree with them.
You never stop learning.
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You are correct. Referring to the 9th AISC, I should have said "member" or "element" or "shape" rather than beam. I find "American Standard beams" used and find "Stuctural tees are obtained by splitting the webs of various beams" and a mention of "beam webs" but otherwise don't see the word used in a general sense.
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Never, but never question engineer's judgement
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Here's a picture taken by a co-worker, Matt Hamilton, on a jobsite visit a few months back. I love the fact that this pipe had to go precisely where there happened to be a gap in the web doubler plates - the absolute weakest section of the column.
If you "heard" it on the internet, it's guilty until proven innocent. - DCS
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The owner of a new 5 story high end residential building was issued a stop order for failing to collect construction trash in a dumpster every day.
When additional inspectors came to the site with copies of the approved plans, they realized that the structural system that was approved by the Structural Bureau, was not what was actually built. The contractor thought that it was OK to replace precast concrete planks bearing on masonry walls, with a steel frame, beams and columns and cip concrete slab that he sized and built according to "his experience". A lot of scary detailing was also found.
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The roof was somewhat saggy.
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Thats a beauty, I'll remeber that one too !
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Basically, the question is whether repads need to be provided under connection clips all the time. The answer is no, but some just do it anyway. But this kind of thinking gets applied to other things as well. So we'll commonly see pipe supports specified at a maximum spacing of 5' or 8' or some other arbitrary number regardless of strength/design considerations. So there is in fact a distinct possibility that in the original photo, the entire support may be superflous, and was furnished because someone just felt it ought to be there, and couldn't be persuaded otherwise, stress or no stress.
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It's also likely to have minimum maintenance and an average of 2.4 hits from a 20 ton forklift.
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I work on a construction company in Nicaragua, a client who is going to be in charge of building a road called us and said he needed a temporary storage/work shop facility, following their ideas we ended with this (pic 1). They think its too expensive for a temporary construction (its going to last until they finish the road, about 20Km). Now they want something like the sketch on pic 2. The two boxes you see are containers, they are thinking of using them as office's and as a warehouse, they want me to place the truss over the container, i'm not sure if this can be done (probably it has been done before, somewhere), my major concerns are overturning moments(the horizontal reaction of the truss is right around 6 tons and the vertical reaction is around 2 tons) and the anchorage on the containers steel sheet, i fear it might tear. I designed a structure (pic 3) to substitute the containers as structural elements, but they still want to use the containers as columns, they really don't want to spend enough money on this warehouse.
I need some help with this. Thanks.
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This chap lived in a run of the mill english detached house (brick walls, timber roof truss). He was apparently an avid wood working fan and decided he wanted his own workshop, but lacked the space to put one in. So, he decided he would use his attic.
He installed a pedestal drill, lathe and belt sander. And to improve the working area he cut out the chords in truss.
This may be an urban legend, but snopes came up empty.
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You need to start a new thread to ask this question as it is completely unrelated to the original topic.