I'm reviewing a stair on grade design. It's an exterior stair built into a terraced slope. The stair has temp&shrinkage #4 reinforcement each way. The stair is fairly long maybe 60ft with four flights and three landings and is 6ft wide. They have it detailed with sloped side walls which...
I'm designing a two-story storage building (Like Extra Space Storage) about 320ft x 135ft. It's a walkout basement condition with grade differential between the long sides being 11'-4". I'm the foundation designer. The floor, roof, and above grade walls are a pre-engineered system; but...
I'm working on a concrete framed stair. It is open on the exterior long side, so I've designed the stair to span the long direction between the exterior wall of the building and an intermediate landing beam (stringer and landings together make up the span). I know there are going to be...
I'm looking for some career advice from my fellow professional engineers. I am at a bit a crossroads. I have 9+ years of experience as a building structural engineer for a small/mid sized (20-30) local one office company. I have learned a lot with this company, progressing from EIT straight...
I'm somewhat stumped with a CMU wall design. I'm designing a gym, mostly one story but has a partial mezzanine level. The walls are 12"CMU + cavity, insulation and brick (1'-6 3/4") total thickness.
There is a clerestory window essentially wrapping around the entire building. The window...
I'm considering a minor change in direction with my career and I would like some advise and opinions from other professionals. I am a structural engineer with 5 years of experience and recently obtained my PE (SE1 exam). I've worked at the same small consulting firm since graduating from...
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I've been doing structural design for about 2 1/2 years now. I work for a small company and it is my first job. I have a few great mentors and have learned a ton since starting work. I was the first young engineer without several years of experience to be hired by the company. The...
A co-worker came across this perplexing condition. He recieved prototype drawings from an architect showing a building with a full basement 14'-0" below grade. The drawings show an exterior counterfort retaining about 3'-0" away from the buildings basement wall. The space between the walls is...
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Every Light Gauge manufacturer has design tables for various applications. Is there a common source for light gauge design procedures. More importantly is the source available for free. Tables are very limited in their usefulness.
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