Who's responsibility is it to brace the structural steel beams against the reaction from the cold-formed steel non-load bearing wall framing? The EOR or the Specialty Engineer? I'm 99% certain it's the EOR's responsibility to make sure the metal studs can attach to the structural steel and not...
Can anyone help me out and tell me where I might find information on the component and cladding wind load on canopies? Specifically, I have a canopy with a cold-formed steel framed soffit and a structural steel framed roof with metal decking. I have designed the structure assuming an open...
I'm designing a soldier pile wall retaining earth adjacent to water. The H-piles are 50-feet long. There is 20-feet of exposed H-pile above low water. The mudline is just below low water. The H-pile is driven through the mud and into overburden below. I'm confident of the H-pile design, depth of...
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I have a mezzanine with an at-grade exit as well as a curved open stair to the floor below. The floor below is also at grade and it has two exits that are too close to one another to meet remoteness requirements. Can I use my exit off my mezzanine as my second...
I have a restaurant with a mezzanine. The mezzanine has an at-grade exit off of the back of the building and an interior open curving stair down to the first floor. The first floor has two at-grade exits that are too close to be considered remote. Can I consider the exit off the mezzanine a...
I'm not seismically detailing my moment frames. Therefore, my steel is designed for R=3. Does anyone see any reason why I can't design my foundation with a higher R? Maybe 6 or even 8? Changing the welding characteristics around the beam to column connection will not change the loads on to the...
