I'm wondering if anyone could provide some help on a question I have regarding floor vibration and Design Guide 11. I have a steel framed floor, all beams and girders, the beams are all 33 feet long but I have different length girders depending on where I am in the building. Some girders are 33...
I'm wondering if someone familiar with ASTM E1300 can provide a little help with some double glazed sealed glass unit design (curtain wall). I'm in Canada and we typically design glass to CAN/CGSB 12.20. In Canada we use average hourly wind velocity while the US (ASTM) uses 3 second gust. I...
I'm really new to RISA and I'm fumbling my way around. I'm trying to model a somewhat strange balcony supported of the side of a building. The balcony has a angled rod hanger on one side and a continuous cranked (in the XZ plane) channel framing back into a channel ledger on the building on the...
I was wondering if anyone here knows of software to design steel plates embedded in concrete with nelson studs or even some good literature? I'm looking for something that would use the Canadian codes but if not that's okay. Just seems like topics like these get left out of the codes as they...
Not sure if this is the right thread for this.
A friend has asked me about bending 3/4" 304 stainless steel round bar. He has a bending machine but the time it would take to get the new dies would be too long. Cold bending by hand is too hard so he wants to heat it to accomplish the bend (3"...
