×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Area Member Loading Question

Area Member Loading Question

Area Member Loading Question

(OP)
I am trying to understand this distribution direction pulldown within Area Member loading (see attachment). I am trying to represent a live load, so I am wondering if I should select perpendicular to A-B, Two Way or something else? Also, what should I select for a wind loading? I looked through some of the youtube videos and they selected two way in one of them.

RE: Area Member Loading Question

It depends on how you are expecting your loads to be distributed. Two way means that members in both directions will attract their trib width in load. A-B and the like are all one way.

RE: Area Member Loading Question

(OP)
Which would be the most conservative loading?

RE: Area Member Loading Question

That again depends on the situation. and the framing orientation.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources