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Appreciate seeing this thread in general but mostly your "postmortem" analysis breaking down the lessons learned. As a young engineer, I...

I miss @lexpatrie. He/she seems to have disappeared while I was taking a break myself. Oh well, many of us come and go as...

I will take this opportunity to express my displeasure at the usage of this new "down voting" function. I wish that didn't even exist...

I fail to see how the point could be considered irrelevant when it is precisely what neuters the argument that taller things are...

Pffft... Muir and Thornton are connection guys. I get my stability from Galambos, Bazant, etc. I didn't say that my definition...

So... what then? We stop relying on diaphragms to brace things and resist in plane loads until all of our contractor friends get PhD's...

It would be better to brace the third or fourth bay from each end in order to minimize temperature effects.

I don't actually consider ClientX to be a "bad client". I lament our parting of ways. In keeping with some of @Enable's comments, I...

My thought would also be yes.

Agreed. I've been talking to software vendors about similar positions on and off for years. I was even offered a cool gig at Sideplate...

Who cares if it's understood by framers? It's the engineers executing the structural designs that need to understand stability a the...

Feisty! This will be pedantic in a way that is sure to annoy you but I don't see any way around it. In my book, neither your bar stool...

Firstly, thank your for that. Color me flattered. I do it for the money and for the opportunity to be useful. Seriously. I have...

I consider that concern moot for the practical situations that we've been discussing. This is because the bulk of the load in those...

Thanks for this. I'm having the kind of day that can only be made more fun with a mental experiment. It depends on the type of...