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  1. XR250

    Conversation starter: How heavily do you rely on computational tools?

    For me, it is mostly financial. My throughput is significantly higher without creating written calcs suitable for others to review. At least half or my projects are performed simply using my calculator without a pencil ever hitting the paper. I can charge the same either way.
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    Baltimore bridge collapse

    What a quagmire. I imagine the only ones who win this is the Attorneys.
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    Sizing Generator- Florida Nursery

    Whatever. I think this is just what some people call modern 120V. i still do from time to time.
  4. XR250

    Anchor to URM

    Tapcons
  5. XR250

    Conversation starter: How heavily do you rely on computational tools?

    I'm curious what your workflow would look like if you did not have to submit calcs.
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    Conversation starter: How heavily do you rely on computational tools?

    I am mainly in the residential, light commercial space. I probably use my HP11C for 75-90%. The rest is basically Excel and a 35 year old, 2D frame program.
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    Forum Clutter - Students (and others) posting in this forum

    Ok, that is pretty convincing.
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    Forum Clutter - Students (and others) posting in this forum

    So if this is true, then how do you explain that when going slow, to turn the bike, you rotate the handlebars in the direction you want to turn, but when going fast you initiate the turn by turning them in the opposite direction? Me thinks this is because once you get to that critical speed...
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    Procrastinating on difficult work

    For me it is to start early A.M. and caffeinate the crap out of myself.
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    Forum Clutter - Students (and others) posting in this forum

    My experience riding and racing motorcycles has been that the gyroscopic precession of the front wheel is what is used to get the bike to quickly change lean angles from one side to the other. It can actually take a large amount of force on the bars to do this when you are dragging a knee on one...
  11. XR250

    Forum Clutter - Students (and others) posting in this forum

    Yes for a short time. I believe when I initiate a right turn by pushing with my right hand, the front wheel momentarily turns left until the bike leans over and then it follows back to the right. Take the front wheel of your bicycle and hold the axle between your hands and spin the rim. Try to...
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    Forum Clutter - Students (and others) posting in this forum

    Learned countersteering early on riding motorcycles. Push right (i.e. right hand) , go right. push left, go left.
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    Forum Clutter - Students (and others) posting in this forum

    Sounds good to me!
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    Forum Clutter - Students (and others) posting in this forum

    I have noticed it as well. I try to just ignore the threads. Many times I am astonished by how much response some of these threads get.
  15. XR250

    top plate on steel beam

    That is fair. My comment was based on beams with nailers - which in all likelihood will be controlled by deflection.
  16. XR250

    Residential Slab Foundation

    I agree. I use it just for that liability. I get crazy shit all the time like I call out (2)jacks and (2)kings at one end of a header and they just assume it is for that end only. Now I call it out on both ends.
  17. XR250

    top plate on steel beam

    I suppose we can start specifying 1/2"Ø holes for 1/2"Ø bolts. Not sure why we go up 1/16" in this case. I have never had an issue of them fitting in my own fabrications. Also, this... Section E3.6g.5 of the 2010 Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings (ANSI/AISC 341-10) allows...
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    CMU ties

    I have never needed them by the numbers nor have I ever seen them. I am now also curious.
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    top plate on steel beam

    Yes, that is my go-to screw for steel to wood fastening. No offense taken. I admit, and others have pointed out, I am somewhat of a cowboy.
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    top plate on steel beam

    How many situations have you actually run into where a steel beam WITH a wood nailer was controlled by strength? I suppose if you are designing to code minimum deflections, than, yea it could come up. So maybe I am like your colleague? " "Not sure I understand this, but it's obvious we have...

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