We're looking at replacing an exterior steel stair tower at an industrial facility. The stairs serve as a means of emergency egress for 4 elevated floors of an industrial-use building (not open to public, IBC occupancy Group F). The tower is non-enclosed, non-combustible construction, and...
I may shortly be asked to compute the axial compression and flexural bending moment capacities of a reinforced concrete section with assumed amounts of the reinforcement "lost" through corrosion. That is, I know what the section looks like today, before any corrosion, and I'll be given the...
