I have a plan check comment to check torsion on the upper half of a steel beam (I'm using an HSS section). Is there a way to model a load that acts uniformly across only a section of the beam? See attached PDF.
So I have a porch addition to an existing house that I want to put knee braces on (outer edge of the porch). I have half the seismic load (dead load*seismic response coefficient/2) going to that side of the porch which is about 1200 pounds. Should I be distributing that load into each knee...
I'm drawing a simple space truss (three almost equilateral triangle sides and a bottom side). I have the connections all pinned at the three bottom reactions. When I run it, my truss members on the bottom have zero axial force which I understand since my three bottom joints are pinned in all...
