I am a licensed Civil Engineer (Structural)with numerous years of experience designing wood residential homes in Southern California. I am attempting to laterally design a wood tower attached to a house. The tower is about 25ft tall and approximately 15ft in diameter and is at the Entry of the...
I have created a simply supported beam spreadsheet to design wood beams. I have figured out that with the use of Superposition I can combine the affects of each load to determine the total affect on the beam. I have used this principle to determine the shear and moment at every 100th of a foot...
