concretemasonry et.al. are right. Not bad conditions, but the contractor HAS to be prepared, ie he needs a plan meeting his contract which likely has all the code/engineering requirements listed, right? Therefore it's up to him to provide and maintain.
And be sure the tent can take wind...
Yep, BA that's all that happens given what we know. If the soils are springs and not able to support the load, the foundation will move downward, relieving load on the column. If moment framing, redistribution thru the connecting members will increase their applied load and decrease the column...
That OSHA is a good reference.
Design I've used is based on ASME B30.20 and BTH-1 (Dave Duerr is a good consultant on this) latest editions and met requirements of OSHA. Made beam grabs with machined hooks from an rough bending and shear design and then FEM analysis. Then load tested to 125%...
I have an unequal leg, single angle to analyze by AISC equation F10-6 and have to figure the BETAw per the commentary. Does anyone know what are the values z and w in the BETAw equation in Tbl C-F10.1 (AISC 13th, p.16.1-284)? Must have something to do with the z and w axes, but what? Do you...
