I have been designing the barrier system for V8 a race in Australia.
For the concrete barriers the calculations were pretty straight forward. We assumed that 4 - 3 barriers would act together through catenary action to resist the load. I assumed an inelastic collision between the car and the...
How do you guys like to do your load take downs?
Do you use FEM software, equivalent frame models or just do it by hand using tributary areas ?
I have been doing it by hand but i'm considering using SAFE. Just stripping down the architectuals and importing the floor plans in an assigning the...
Hello.
I am a freshmen structural engineer - (12 weeks experience lol) so sorry if this is an obvious question :)
I have circular concrete column with a diamater of 600mm reinforced around the perimeter with 8 N20 bars - (20mm diam, 500Mpa)which can be seen attached.
This column is subjected...
