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I am working on a fire station job which requires to remove and rebuild elevated floor for fire engine.
Anyone knows how to determine the impact load for stop, brake, etc?
Any suggestions or code references are appreciated.
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I am working on a job to replace an existing beam and maybe the columns. The building is five story and the beams at this corner are in very bad shape, they are about 20ft span. There is no floor at this corner but new floor will be installed. I need suggestions on new beam to...
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We have a block and plank hotel project about 180ft x 70 ft, 5 story. It will have CMU walls as bearing and shear walls for the shorter direction. The other direction has light gauge stud wall as non- bearing walls. I am thinking to use the light gauge stud walls as shearing walls...
I am working on a 2-story house with a family room wall offset 7ft from the main perimeter wall. The wall height is 21ft supporting roof trusses because it's open on the second floor, the length is 19 ft with window and door opening. Based on IRC 602.10.1, the designated braced wall does not...
Hello, I need some suggestions on a 30 ft high retaining wall. I never designed a retaining wall more than 9ft high. The wall is also part of the building, and we do not want to transfer the load to the building. I attached a preliminary geometry. Please take a look to see it makes sense and...
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I have a question about the anchor bolt embedment for sill plates. Based on IBC 2015 chapter 2308.3.1, the anchor bolt shall be embedded at least 7". The projects I have done, I always show a 12" embedded cast in place bolt, however, the contractors always refuse to use cast in...
I am working on a 4 story steel hotel building, the Architect only gave me 4" in width for about 28' long steel beam in all demising walls (separation of two rooms) and composite slab span from beam to beam (about 12ft). which means the max W shape beam i can use is W12x22, which is too small...
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One question came up recently. For a 4-story wood building, the first two floor studs may need 2x6@12"OC and upper floors 2x6@16"OC by calculation. But floor joists are 16" OC and roof trusses are 24"OC. So do the studs have to line up all floors? if so, all floors need to have...
Have anyone done cmu block bearing/shear wall on steel/concrete beams? We have a client wants to build a 4-story hotel with basement parking and he wants to use block and plank. This is my first job with CMU. I have a concern how to connect the cmu to steel beam. I have tried the analysis using...
