I work for a company that makes lots of standardized steel structures, and our design method is currently ASD. We have loads of calculation templates that use ASD for design. We have historically used post-installed epoxy anchors to attach our columns to concrete, but we are now running into a...
My company designs and manufactures greenhouses, and we often end up subcontracting with architects or general contractors to design and provide a greenhouse that attaches to a larger building project. We've just gotten a new contract, and we asked for some CAD files from the architect in order...
I'm working through the large moment base plate design procedure in AISC Steel Design Guide #1 2nd Edition for anchor bolts and base plates, and I'm having some issues. The example problem given for this procedure contains some calculation errors that render the results meaningless, and when I...
In ASCE 7-05 Section 7.7.1, at the bottom, it says to determine the snow depth (h.b) by dividing the snow load (p.s) by the snow density (gamma). This is all fine and good, makes perfect sense. But then in parentheses there is this note: "In SI: also multiply by 102 to get the depth in m.)
This...
This might be hard to explain, but here goes: In Mathcad 14, Insert > Area gives you two lines that you can use to collapse areas of your Mathcad sheet. You can drag the two lines up and down to surround your equations as needed. However, you can't cut, copy or paste these lines. If you want to...
I have a 2x9 array and I want to have Mathcad 14 sum up all the elements. I've gone through the different types of summations in Mathcad and I haven't gotten any of them to work. I did manage to get what I want by turning each column of the matrix into a vector using the column command (M<> in...
