I have a small bridge with rolled steel beams and a timber deck. I have the steel beams spaced at 2.5' and an engineer working with me sized the transverse timber deck members for flexure and used a 4x8 member (nominal) set flat-wise. The engineer did not check the timber deck for shear due to...
I have a design for a client for a sheet pile cofferdam to provide support during pouring of a pier footing. The borings indicated boulders and varying top of rock elevations. Due to this variation, the contractor is required to overexcavate down to rock and backfill with Class C concrete to...
I did not have much steel design in school and have never gotten too in depth in the theory behind lateral bracing. My experience with bracing requirements for steel beams involves specifying standard details provided by the state DOT.
I have a temporary 2-beam steel system that is only...
I'm designing a soldier beam wall with embedment in rock. The job provisions did not include shear strength of rock, so I am assuming 4 ksf, which I know is a conservative value but my embedments are reasonable. My only issue is referencing this for the reviewer. Does anyone have a textbook...
