I need to check a hollowcore plank's capacity to resist shear breakout force applied by embedded anchors. The anchors are post installed, and embedded though the entire plank (top flange through to the bottom flange and through a hollow core, not into a web). The shear force is parallel to the...
I'm designing moment connections for 2 bay moment frame, with an HSS8x8x5/8 column in the middle that connects to W21x68 beams, each with matching 239.2 K-Ft end moments at the column. I have been following AISC Design Guide 24, example 4.2 to do this. This was pretty straight forward until I...
I'm designing a cable for a fabric screen wall on the edge of a roof penthouse (and its connections to a steel post and CMU wall). Since there is very little dead load, I'm not concerned with vertical deflection. I'm designing it primarily for the horizontal wind force.
The issue I'm having is...
