Ok thanks for those you have replied and appreciate your comments - even those sharp ones. I guess my confusion was for what is the purpose of so much compression steel, but things are clearer now. Special thanks to csd72 and TXStructura as your comments were most helpful.
I am trying to calculate the nominal moment strength of the attached, but I keep getting the compression block, a = negative number. I am using
a = [(Asfy-A'sf's)/(0.85f'c)-(b-bw)hf+A's]/bw
Would you know what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks,
