Dear Friends,
I'm designing a quite large floor truss in wich the diagonal elements are made of pipes, for the worst load combo I do have a compressive load of 1050kN and it's connected to a gusset plate 16mm thick and the pipe is d=168.3mm t=11mm of a steel alloy with fy=250MPa (l=2300mm)...
Dear Folks,
I'm building a kind of pool, small one in my house's terrace and I'm using steel to make it, like a square tank made of stiffned 3.00mm steel plate, first I tought about use vinyl finishing (cast in place). But by the moment we decided to use glass tilles (small ones 30x30mm) and...
Dear folks,
Sorry for this basic question (I'm structural) but I would like to know if there is any trustable way to determine the alowable bearing pressure having only the results of a Standart Penetration Test?
Thanks in advance,
Fred
Dear Folks,
I have to design a sports arena roof structure that has the geometry composed of two intersecting hyperbolic paraboloids plus an parabolic arch, for the structural system I'm intenting to use the lammela system and the matter is I do have to generate a wire frame for the surface, is...
Dear Friends,
I've recently received an invite for a US sponsored HB1 position in a major engineering consultancy company, so I'll have to attend a board meeting to show a brief of my work as structural engineer and the matter is that I have no idea about how do the projects are presented in...
Hi,
Does anyone of you knows where any source of "raw" data (men/hour consuption, costs and so) for fabrication and construction of steel structures and for construction in general.
Thank you in advance,
Fred
Hi all,
I'm facing an annoying problem, so I will ask you for advices concerning the solution that I'm intenting to use, the problem is that due to assembling errors a crane (40t) runway beam that I've designed was placed 65mm out of the desired axis, the beam is a welded W with the...
Dear Friends,
Yesterday a client asked me about the viability of the construction of a cable stayed bridge crossing a river spanning over 200m with a width of 1.5m and wooden walkway.
Since, here in Brazil, this kind of structure is very uncomum you can guess what a kind of trouble I'm...
Dear Experts,
I'm developing some standart steel structures for industrial buildings, warehouses and farm facilities for serial production aiming to find the fastest way to provide the client with the building ready to use. At this point the steel structures issues are done but occured to me...
