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  1. FlashSet

    Vertical friction on Retaining Wall

    Concrete is 'cheap' and it helps me sleep better than friction does. Just add more concrete. To answer your question, no I have never seen anyone use it, nor have I ever considered using it.
  2. FlashSet

    Work Life Balance (update)

    Why buy a house somewhere that you are unhappy. Start looking for a job in a new location, maybe a bigger cutter. Chicago and Minneapolis aren't 'too' far away.
  3. FlashSet

    LFRD and ASD

    I think 0.6*DL + 1.0*WL actually has a physical meaning, unlike 0.9*DL + 1.6*WL for overturning.
  4. FlashSet

    Truss

    Are you sure you are dealing with a truss? Loads should only be applied at joints, and all members should be pin connected; this should alleviate your problem if I understand it correctly.
  5. FlashSet

    Foundation on equivalent soil mass bedrock within a slope.

    Bedrock can become weathered and decomposed. At one extreme, severely weathered rock no longer has any rock properties and is soil. A geotechnical engineer needs to decide if the bedrock is poor rock or if the underlying stratum is soil.
  6. FlashSet

    1950 Structural Steel

    There are a couple more from Bethlehem steel on this page: http://www.slideruleera.net/miscellaneous.html
  7. FlashSet

    1950 Structural Steel

    http://www.slideruleera.net/contributions.html The above link is to another forum user's website containing a collection of useful documents. There are some steel catalogs for the era in your post.
  8. FlashSet

    Maximum Post Spacing for Decorative Railing

    Mu = 50 plf *14.7^2 * 12 / 8 = 16.21 k-in Zx = 1.25 * 2.5^2 /4 = 1.95 in^3 M_allow = 36/1.67 * 1.95 = 42 k-in > 16.21 k - in Looks like you are okay!!!! But I am confused, is the 6" pipe your handrail or your guardrail? It is too big to be a handrail. I have never used the term "Kick bar"...
  9. FlashSet

    Civil-Structural PE Questions

    No comment on #1, other than if you can answer the questions in SDRM then you will probably do fine on the structural portion of the PE. Remember, it is nearly August - you have less than three months to study. #2 Get the correct code. There are some things that are different between 13th and...
  10. FlashSet

    starting salary

    Why pay them? Just emphasize how you are helping them: Link But more seriously, recent NYC starting salaries were around $60,000 - 67,000. Other (non big city) places were closer to the $50,000 to 56,000 range. Personally I would have thought the $50,000 was low, but the place offered a ~15%...
  11. FlashSet

    PE Exam Review Courses

    My company pays for one pair of steel-toed boots every year. My current 2.5 year old pair is still doing fine. They also will buy me dinner and drink(s) when I am away from the home office, but I usually only expense for the food and pay for my own drinks. Now that my side tangent is out of...
  12. FlashSet

    Prandtls's bearing capacity theory Vs Terzaghi's bearing capacity theory

    Thank you sro2ck, I had actually never known of Prandtls theory before. Luckily a simple google search taught me that it was different from my home-boy Terzaghi's theory by the simple relationship of...wait noooo...UFO, I am not ready to be abducted...I was just about to explain the difference...
  13. FlashSet

    Deflection of beam with multiple cross sectional areas

    Look at page two for an example that you could follow: https://engineering.purdue.edu/~ce474/Docs/Beam_Examples01.pdf
  14. FlashSet

    Silo loading on Structural Analysis Software

    Why is there a vertical pressure on your elements? Is your silo cylindrical? conical? upside-down conical? Are you referring to frictional down drag? Are you referring to the the vertical pressure from the granular material inside the silo? If you clarify these questions I may be able to...
  15. FlashSet

    Ref books for nonlinear structural analysis?

    I came across a bunch of aerospace course pages a few weeks ago trying to find a resource on plain strain. I do not know the quality of this resource, but here is a link to a nonlinear FEM course with an Ebook (I believe the ebook is written by the aerospace faculty at University of Colorado...
  16. FlashSet

    What is this piece of railway equipment called (see photo)?

    A pallet someone threw on the side of the tracks?
  17. FlashSet

    Salary Confidentiality

    In most of our proposals we have overhead rates directly associated with names; not much to hide there.
  18. FlashSet

    Frame3dd, how too.

    Look at the example files that are available here. Start with simple examples and try to decipher each part of the input file. Then try to create your own input file. Good luck!
  19. FlashSet

    RISA 3D and Duct Design

    Import the geometry from cad software. I have never done this with Risa, but I would start by exporting a simple rise plate model to cad and seeing how the different elements plot.
  20. FlashSet

    PE Training: Eng-Tips Forum

    Is everyone really hurting this badly for hours that you need to consider engtips? I am not arguing against this great resource, I am just curious. I don't have my PE yet, but my colleagues and I go to professional meetings often enough, and get enough free drinks from the open bar that...

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