I have been looking at a one story addition to a house that was built without a structural engineer and is now having problems. The addition is conventional wood light framed construction with 9' 2x6 walls supporting 2x10 rafters at a 4:12 pitch over a total building width of 28'. The rafters...
I am structural engineer working on a new supermarket project. The client is particularly concerned about curling of the concrete slab on grade. Originally, we had specified a 3" sand layer below the 5" fiber-reinforced slab. Now, the client wants to change to a 4" slab on DGA material...
I am working on a project where we wish to detail 58' of 3"x3"x1/4" A36 steel plate welded to 8 stainless steel tube columns. I am not sure what grade the stainless steel will be because it will be part of a propreitary sunshade system that has not yet been selected. The architect has ruled out...
