My company has sponsored a capstone project at a local university. They're stumped and I'm hoping to assist them. We are trying to model a pendulum-like structure--a large mass suspended from the roof of a building by 4 vertical cables (like a Jumbotron). The question we're trying to answer...
I would like to create a spreadsheet to determine the lateral capacity of a single embedded pile using the Broms method. This method involves several charts. You lookup one unitless parameter on the X-axis to determine another unitless parameter on the Y-axis. I've made an attempt to...
The firm where I work regularly designs large solid signs. We compute wind load using ASCE 7 - 05 Chapter 6. Do we have to compute a single wind pressure based on the elevation of the top of the sign or can we break up the sign into segments and use variable pressure based on the elevation of...
