I'm trying to wrap my head around the design of light gauge Zee and Cee purlins in pre-engineered metal building design. I have the metal building systems book by Alexander Newman as well as the AISI manual and spec (newest edition of spec and the 2008 edition of the manual). Here's the set-up...
Currently designing a pier foundation for a PEMB building, and am trying to wrap my head around best practices for shear transfer between the anchor bolts and the pier. The column I'm looking at has 97k (ult) of compression alongside its worst case shear of 37 k (ult). After looking through a...