I have a steel column that i'm designing for significant thermal expansion. It is pinned between two cantilevering concrete slab elevations. The column is located towards the outside edge of the cantilevered slabs. It's being provided to control vertical deflection of these slabs. I am trying to...
I am trying to come up with a criteria for qualitatively selecting regions of highest "negative moments" in continuous beams. The parameters are of course w and ln. ACI lets you use formulae that are generically wl2 / something.
I am looking for rules of thumbs like when two supports are...
I am designing a single padeye plate (no cheek plates) with a single shackle pin going through it. I am accouting for the two most likely modes of failure namely 1) Bearing = Fu x dia of hole x plate thickness 2) shear tearout = 0.4 Fy x Clear edge distance x plate thickness. Is this sufficient...
