"Engineering-International" Design Spreadsheets
"Engineering-International" Design Spreadsheets
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Has anyone purchased the spreadsheets found at www.engineering-international.com and could vouch for their accuracy and/or value? They seem well put together, but the creator, a Daniel Tian Li, SE out of California, would not give me references when I contacted him, citing 'marketing games' he doesn't want to get involved with.
If not, could anyone point me in the direction of a useful seismic analysis tool?
If not, could anyone point me in the direction of a useful seismic analysis tool?





RE: "Engineering-International" Design Spreadsheets
I can't see what marketing games there are though if the calculation methods are readily available on the references.
corus
RE: "Engineering-International" Design Spreadsheets
RE: "Engineering-International" Design Spreadsheets
No idea what they cost - so were they worth it - I do not know.
One problem we have is that all of the spreadsheets are protected and being engineers we would like the ability to tweak them at times for our own specific cases.
The spreadsheet for combined footings gave much more conservative results, for footing thickness, than the way I always did them. Being conservative is a good thing. I am not saying they were wrong - but I chose not to use it and continue those designs like I always had done.
GJC