I am working on a renovation project where the client wants to put a playground at the top level of a parking garage. I am limited in the live load capacity of the structure, and I need to account for playground substrate dead load. I cannot use the 100 psf assembly load. What live load have you...
I'm working on a residential project. This is in investigation phase because the house is built. How would I analyze these shear wall/frames that are skewed from the rest of the house. I don't want to be too conservative with the wind load because every deficiency will need to be repaired. No...
I have been reading IBC and IRC 2012 and still cannot figure this out. I'm hoping someone with more braced wall design experience can help. I am doing investigation work on a house in Virginia. The house is in SDC A and 90 mph wind and built per IBC 2006. One of the brace wall line is at the...
We have a project that requires an L8x8x1/2 cut to L8x7x1/2 for architectural reason. We're in the CA phase, and the contractor is asking to subsitute this cut angle with a bent plate. They claim that cutting the leg of the angle will result in twisting. Has anyone encounter this and is it...
