I'm evaluating a number of existing lift beams located at a dam using ASME BTH-1 for below-the-hook lifting devices. In checking my calculations, my coworker told me I should be checking the flexure of some of these lifting pins that are inserted into the gantry crane lifting hook eyes.
I had...
I'm checking the design on a cantilevered retaining wall with equal quantities of steel at equal distances from each face (e.g. #6 bars at 12" o.c., centered 3.5" from each wall face). In looking through the analysis equations, since the steel areas are equal, a couple of quantities drop to...
I'm just curious how one goes about designing a reinforced concrete shear key. It wasn't anything I ever heard about in school and none of my textbooks even mention it. What are some good resources?
More specifically, my problem basically deals with a rectangular concrete channel in the...
