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Hello, Does anyone know the procedure for designing end plate moment connections framing into column web?

Thanks for the reply. Can we use the equivalent frame method to arrive at some sort of stiffness values for the slab and columns?

Hello, I am looking into an 1917 five stories concrete building. It is a flat slab construction with column capitals. What is the best way to figure out the lateral stiffness of the flat slab? Seismic forces govern and we ahve to figure out the existing lateral capacity of the building before we...

I am looking for a more detailed explanation of section 2109 of MBC 2003.

can you please elaborate the "Empirical Design of Masonry" per MBC 2003? What design is considered empirical or if yu are using the NCMA software is it considered as a special design or just empirical?

What exactly is "Empirical Design of masonry" as per MBC 2003? If you use the NCMA software for a masonry load bearign wall design, would you consider it as a special design or an empirical design?

For a project I need to specify hardware for a residential indoor swing. Please guide me with regards to the kind of hardware I need to call out that would connect the swing to the structure

I have already emailed them .... no response yet. I cannot switch to LRFD I have to deal with the equations of ASD !

On page 5-57 of ASD Manual, for composite beam design, the calculation of transformed section properties for stress check is always based on normal weight concrete, but for deflection checks we are asked to take into account whether the concrete is normal weight or light weight. Why is it so?