Something I have never seen before.
My you tube recommended me a video on a method to dry-pour concrete.
Basically screed off bagged concrete and water with a garden-hose.
One video is for a slab for a chicken coop - OK no load I get it.
But searching similar videos start they escalate up...
I am trying to find a detail for timber piles into a concrete pile cap. I searched our company library, the Timber Piling Council, and checked Google and could not come up with a detail with confidence.
Basically we have 12" timber piles with a concrete pile cap on grade supporting a shallow...
We are designing a platform that is spanning over a waste water tank. The tank has a baffle wall with the top of the baffle wall braced back to our platform. What kind of loads will the top of the baffle put on our platform?
Our initial thought was that the flow at the baffle will be slow...
We are analyzing an existing structure with this deck.
Does anyone know if there is any information available on this deck? (A picture is attached of a section of the deck that was removed minus the concrete)
Basically this is a sheet of metal that is perforated and bent to form a type of...
We have a 3/8" thick plate to weld to a supporting member. To do this we are thinking of cutting a hole and using a fillet weld inside of the radius of the hole.
Using a 3/16" weld, what is the tightest radius that can be used.
Our senior engineer says this process is frequently used, however...
We are adding cladding to the back of an existing set of open riser aluminum bleachers (School logo/ advertising). The issue we are having is that this significantly increases the surface area for the wind loading. These bleachers are on wood skids resting on the ground and consequently when...
We are designing a two story retail facility and would like to utilize the ASCE section 12.2.3.1 for two stage equivalent lateral force. The controlling factor for our design is meeting the requirement to have the period of the entire structure be < 1.1X the period of the upper portion.
I have...
Does anyone know if there is a program available that will allow you to insert standard 2D AISC members into AutoCAD without opening a separate drawing file and using copy/paste?
We have seen one in the past and no one seems to know the name of it or where it came from. (it disappeared from...
We are designing a 5 story wood framed building (four floors of wood on top of a CMU 1st level)with 11' story heights. We would like to use wood shear walls for our lateral resistance system.
What is a good/reasonable maximum wind deflection for this type of building?
In our area of the...
We are designing a coal elevator consisting of several bents and a transfer tower.
The ASCE7-05 Table 15.4.2 does not include a similar condition to the bents. Does anyone know of a source that will give an R value for this condition? Or have an oppinion on what value to use from Tab. 15.4-2...
I am doing the connection design for several Directly welded flange FR Moment connections, when I break the resisted moment into the tension and compression components I find that the beams flanges are not adequate to handle the forces.
Does anyone know if we can use the beam web connection to...
