I am designing some post-installed anchors for a steel bracket that will be located near or perhaps straddling a joint in a concrete slab. The joint is between the main slab-on-grade and the pour-strip next to the tilt up walls, with rebar thru the joint. This is not a control joint and it is...
I have been asked to evaluate the gravity load capacity of a wood-framed floor system within a building that was built in 1968. The floor consists partly of 3 x 12's in joist hangers mounted to a 3 x 12 wood ledger. The ledger is bolted to the CMU with 5/8" bolts at 4' o.c. Everything in this...
I am designing the attachment of cladding on the underside of a roof overhang using ASCE 7-05 for the wind load determination. The wind load determined by using the GCp factor from figure 6-11B, page 56 (overhang), is the total load on the overhang, including pressure from the upper and lower...
I haven't designed many moment frames, but I am working on a rather simple one that is part of a "canopy". The structure is only 15 feet tall and is very light. Snow loading generates the highest moments in the frame, not seismic. It is in SDC=D.
I would like to simply "lock up" the joints...
I haven't designed many moment frames, but I am working on a rather simple one that is part of a "canopy". The structure is only 15 feet tall and is very light. Snow loading generates the highest moments in the frame, not seismic. It is in SDC=D.
I would like to simply "lock up" the joints...
I design light gage steel curtain wall stud framing. Recently I have had to apply the 2003 IBC wind design for the first time. I chose to use the ASCE 7-02 analytical procedure because the IBC simplified method did not specifically address parapets under components and cladding. The ASCE...
