I own a small structural firm and last week interviewed an engineer with good technical skills. He will be leaving a large firm after many years.
Maybe I am hyper-sensitive about certain comments made during the interview. For example; I asked him how much notice he would give to his...
I have had a small structural firm for 19 years. My wife is a pastor but has always came in once a week to do payrolls, pay bills, generate billings, etc.
Sometimes it has been really great but we have had our worst fights over taxes; payroll taxes, quarterly, end of year and any other tax...
I am designing an outrigger which will consist of steel beams at 30" oc with a 1/4" steel plate continuous over several spans. The concentrated load will be from a pallet jack with a very small wheel. My question is how much load distribution could I expect in the steel plate parallel to the...
Concentrated load on a one way slab near a support
such as a concrete wall: Is there any good method of determining how much distribution along the wall (width of slab "b" for shear calcs?
If the load is within distance "d" then some engineers say that you can ignore the load. However, ACI 318...
When a concentrated load is placed on a slab on grade
how do you determine the soil pressure distribution
and if the pressure is within the allowable soil limits?
Since the slab confines the soil the allowable bearing pressures typically listed for a soil such as clay become
much larger.
