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I teach upper-level structural engineering classes. I am looking for impactful (and also reasonable for students) assignments, preferably with easy to digest plan sets.
When you think back to your undergraduate days, were there any projects, case studies or HW assignments that were...
The conceptual question is - how is the horizontal component accounted for when ridge beams are used to carry the load? Yes, the rafters are designed for bending, and a large component of the gravity load is transmitted to the foundation, but there is still thrust present pushing out the walls...
I have a project where a client is converting an RV garage into an ADU. There is a 10 ft by 10 ft section of loft that will be supported on one side by a ledger beam. The existing wall has 2x6 studs at 16 in o.c that are 13 ft tall, it is a load bearing wall for the roof rafters above (5:12...
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I have a client that is knocking out what was likely intended to be a non-load bearing internal wall. One story home, the wall runs perpendicular to the truss system (open W style, 24 ft span, with webs meeting the tension chords at 8'ft spacings, 2x4 members), an analysis shows that...
