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An engineer in our office is struggling to remember where he saw this change, but mentioned he remembers a code change requiring a double 2x8 beam to be "notched" to a round timber pile. We have always face mounted these members. Our client is a contractor and has always face...
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I have a client asking me to provide a proposal for a site visit and peer review of an existing structure. This structure is a large CMU warehouse that was started around 2015 but never finished and the walls only extend up maybe 1/4 to 3/4 full height. The client wasn't able...
Does anyone know of any ACI design examples for a reinforced concrete column with axial, shear and torsion load applied (torsion and shear are from PT barrier cables and are much higher than the initial design intent).
I would prefer it be to ACI 318-11 but I will consider newer ACI codes...
I've got a high-rise concrete structure with post-tensioned barrier cables. The cables produce almost 8kips "pre-jacking force" and almost 6kips "final effective force". These forces vary and in some cases produce torsion in additional to lateral loads on my columns. I reviewed ACI-318...
We have a condition where the our columns are reinforced at over 4.5% at the pile cap to base of column location and therefore at our lap splices we exceed 9% area of steel. The columns are already extended from the top of the pile cap to the underside of the 2nd floor slab. We can adjust the...
I have an Architect and G.C. insisting that 4" CMU can be used as a partition wall (and resist the code minimum 10psf interior design pressures).
I personally have seen another engineer cave-in and put this on their drawings but IMHO it is garbage and non-structural.
Has anyone attempt (and...
I have any interesting project...
It is a 1-story plaza in Hernando County, FL
It has wood roof trusses spanning ~50' between load-bearing CMU walls
It was built in 1985 and from discussions with the owner the roof originally was constructed of plywood sheathing with Clay Roof Tiles...
Upon...
I am investingating an existing building and there is a very wide plywood glu-lam girder carrying the floor framing.
Has anyone ever seen anything like this?
This is a project in Florida and was originally built in 1920 but I believe this to be a more recent renovation.
Any idea what it is or...
I have been asked to work on an interesting project. The client is a Dance Studio where dance classes are taught. The Architect (interior designer) originally received a permit from the building department to modify the floorplan for 3 dance studios on the 2nd floor of an old three story...
