I have reached out to them and had to leave a message. I'm hoping to hear next week. I think you are right that I'm in for frustration.
Thank you for all the insights!
I'm designing a curtain wall system and their attachments. So it should be similar to your metal panels in some ways. I'm not totally following the panel and attachment being 2.0 on top of everything else but the framing behind it being treated differently since if that framing fails the...
I tend to agree and see the logic in that. Where it starts to fall down for me is that they require a factor of safety of 2.0. This seems to disregard that the material design also has a safety factor on it, increasing the total safety factor to greater than 2 if you just multiply ASD loads by...
After reading the 2015/2016 DS 1-28 I am confused about the application of the FM Global loads. They run through calculations comparing results to ASCE 7-10 with both ASD and LRFD loads. What I can't tell is if I am to be using these loads with ASD or LRFD capacity equations for my structural...
