Disclaimer: I am not a geotechnical engineer of any kind, nor a student with that kind of training or anything adjacent to it. I'm just a guy who would like to better understand some of the peripheral concepts that are tangential to my actual field of work. I'm going to draw some embarrassingly...
I am a software engineer developing a design calculator for wood-frame embedded column structures in the United States pursuant to the IBC using allowable stress design. In reading the IBC (I am currently looking at the 2021 edition, but I believe the following applies in some form to all...