Reduce the size of column Pre-Eng Building
Reduce the size of column Pre-Eng Building
(OP)
Hello,
What are different conceptual methods can be review to change columns from Tapered to Straight in PreEng building.
Is it possible to reduce the column sizes significantly?
Thanks,
What are different conceptual methods can be review to change columns from Tapered to Straight in PreEng building.
Is it possible to reduce the column sizes significantly?
Thanks,






RE: Reduce the size of column Pre-Eng Building
Are you designing a PEMB? The manufacturers usually have dedicated software for their proprietary designs, which are difficult to replicate.
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This is process-industrial and clear span buidling. Other deciplines desing aussumed the straight coulmn and model the duct and piping, which are now clash with actual column size, No doubt!!.
Thus, I am trying to see if I can reduce the column size to avoid the rework.
RS
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com
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Could this mistake happen with a custom designed building? It happens all the time. But you would have the information at hand to make a technically sound decision.
I totally agree with all the posters above in not redesigning the columns. Even if you have the calculations, it's a losing proposition. How are you going to transfer the moments at the knuckle? How about deflections? Will the baseplate work?
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Everyone? In rereading the posts above, I couldn't find anyone suggesting negligence on the part of the PEMB engineers...maybe in some other threads, but certainly not in this one. A bit sensitive, are we?
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*Lack of documentation. I'm one of the schmucks who get called when someone needs a window, a load increase, a hole cut in the roof, a monorail. The calculations (we always ask for them, never really get them), are indecipherable. We might get a couple of pages of summary, no interactions, no tributary loads, no section properites, no nothing. I know the calculations are done. How about someone figuring out a presentation that can be followed after the building is built?
*As far as the retrofit projects, the PEMB supplier is never any help. Just once, I'd like to get a contribution (or a call back)from them. How is it that every PEMB supplier has lost every calculation every done? I've heard that there were floods, fires and every other kind of pestilence imaginable. I don't think it's the engineers fault. I think that the PEMB companies see follow-on service as just an invitation for litigation.
Once again, I think that PEMB engineers are very good. They do good work. But for god's sake, think of the other guy. We're trying to make our client's happy, too.
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I, and I think others, don't dislike PEMB designers. just the product. We have some spare capacity on our designs that often allows us to respond to small changes and answer questions quickly, your buildings do not, add to that that they are proprietary so we cannot answer peremptory demands to know if we can increase the weight of dome object or another. Your product comes out of a black box, we can try to analyze it with a regular program but it almost never says yes, but your companies say it does work but they can't prove it because the design basis is proprietary. It is like buying a pig in a poke. Would you buy a car from a man who won't let you look under the hood.
Additionally, those of us are/were called out to evaluate building failures, under wind or snow load, find that the damaged building is a PEMB.
I repeat, I don't have anything against you or your colleagues, I'm sure you just as honorable and ethical as the rest of us but i do hate your product.
Michael.
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
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I actually thought the O.P'er. asked the original question with considerable naivete. And, I was just warning that there probably wasn't much reserve in the columns or the whole bldg. for that matter. And, that these bldgs. are quite sensitive to any modifications without the programs, materials lists and code corner cutters the PEMB people employ. PEMB's may have their place in the as-built infrastructure world, there will always be people who buy on the lowest dollar/cu.ft. enclosed basis only, but they should have a better understanding of what they are buying and its limitations, as regards any future changes to the bldg. And, if the PEMB people want to improve their name or image a little bit, they could be more open and cooperative with the rest of the bldg. industry after the initial bldg. sale, and any changes need to be made to the bldg. And, they could be more up-front with the potential bldg. owner about future bldg. modification limitations, deflections and flexibility, etc. They could also mention that while their steel price looks pretty good, some of that savings will be used up in extra found. work for which they pretend they are not responsible, so as to look even better.
There are steel bldg. salesmen, there are their crafts people, and they certainly are crafty, and there are regular engineers. Audeuce02, you shouldn't be so sensitive about what you do, as others have said you do it pretty darn well. You squeeze every pound of steel out of those buildings; that you trim right to the bone can't be denied, and that you reduce the fabricating costs and time to the bear minimum, can't be denied either. But, your industry could be a bit more up-front about what you are really selling, and maybe some of you engineering people could lead in bringing this about. You could be more helpful when bldg. modifications are needed by your bldg. owner, or at least explain again what you sold him and why it can't be altered. Your industry has really made its own reputation, and you're not improving it here, in my eyes.
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I recently looked at one where the differential settlements from frame to frame were so bad that the runway looked like someone drew it on an etch-a-sketch after a 12 pack.
Not the fault of the steel designer necessarily but the foundations were "detailed" right on the PEMB drawings and all they showed was a rectangle in plan with with a note "such n' such bars @ 12" ctrs both ways". Literally that was the extent of the foundation details. It was a joke...
Building was built in the 70's and the drawings had the title block of a very prominent metal building producer.