Hello. I am resurrecting this thread as the previous posts about the WoodWorks Shearwalls software is a few years old. I do small commercial and residential design (mostly wood framed buildings) and recently discovered the Shearwalls software. Currently I use Revit for building modeling, and...
I mostly work with small scale construction, rarely encountering buildings over two stories tall. I would like to know which wind design methodology people use and in particular why. Does one method tend to give you more conservative, or more accurate results over the others, again when...
I work with mostly small scale construction - some commercial, and a lot of residential. We primarily refer to the ACI 318-11 for concrete code. Recently I came across the ACI 332-14 & the ACI 332.1 R-06 and I wondered if the information they contained might be more applicable to the residential...
Do the values in the 2008 SDPWS Table 4.3A Nominal Unit Shear Capacities for Wood-Frame Shear Walls vary if your sheathing runs vertically instead of horizontally? The shear walls I am considering are framed at 24"o.c. and sheathing is spec'd as 15/32 APA Rated Sheathing. I haven't found any...
I work for a small civil/structural engineering firm (two and soon three people who are stamping drawings). I have been looking into the Oregon and Washington state requirements for digital signatures that accompany the stamp on a drawing set. I understand that a digital signature needs to be...
Does the ACI 318-08 15.7 minimum 6" depth of concrete over your reinforcing for footings apply to continuous spread footings? 15.1 clearly states that the requirement applies to isolated (pad) footings, but I'm wondering if it also applies to a typical continuous footings at, say, the perimeter...
