Thank you ron9876. In addition to checking the hat channel as a section I also checked the sloped top face and the vertical legs as individual elements. We reduced the dimensions of the hat channel so the sloped top and inside vertical leg are shorter than shown in the PDF. When checking the...
Thank you both very much! At this point, I am being paid to provide preliminary analysis of the detail. Once we determine if it is feasible, I will ask if there are additional loads not listed in the structural notes that the EOR is expecting to be transferred with this connection. I must...
We have been asked to review and engineer a steel roof deck support detail proposed by the steel truss fabricator as an alternate to the detail provided by the EOR. The original detail by the EOR is a continuous 1/4” bent steel plate welded to a continuous embed pate with headed studs. The...
