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We have a question about the thermal expansion of steel beams of a composite floor system during construction. The EOR has detailed both ends of each beam to be welded to bearing plates on reinforced CMU bearing wall. When the building is done, this will all be within an...
We do analysis and design of Brownstone dwellings in NYC. Most of the time we are working with one dwelling in a row of same sized dwellings (often more than 6 units in a row). Since these units were constructed at the same time, one could consider that the wind load applied to the structure...
We surveyed a building that was constructed in the mid-1950's in southeastern PA. The roof over the building was a 7 1/2" deep metal deck than spanned up to ~29'. It appears to match up with the H7.5 designation that was previously manufactured by USD, but when we measured the deck thickness...
