I have a long (40' per side)shallow pitched (4:12) gable roof that drops down (8 ft) to a 30' long flat roof. I am developing a truss loading diagram for the flat roof area. The question is do you combine balanced snow + drifting snow + sliding snow or do you treat balanced + drifting as one...
I have a W8x28 column with a 3" slotted hole in the web from a forklift - is there reason for concern? It is being used as a 17 ft column and is axially loaded to 100% of it capacity.
Also hav another column with flanges bent out of plane by as much as 2" over a 4 ft length. Comments??
I typically use 2 layers of rebar in my footings which resist uplift and have been asked not to use upper layer. Does everyone use 2 layers? If not how do you resist top of slab bending during uplift situations?
asce defines "a" for a regular shaped building as 10% of least horizontal dimension of .4h.
what if you have an "L" shaped building - does the inside corner of the L get the higher wind pressure?
what if you have a 80 ft long wall with a 5ft bump out 20ft long at midspan - does both sides of the...
I have a non load bearing precast prestressed insulated wall panel. I have no drawings but it appears to have 3/8" tendons in each face 16" o/c. Panel are 8ft wide and 23 ft high with supports at base and at 21 ft above slab.
My client wants to install some ~48" wide windows in the center of...
I have a 10x8 timber that I want to add 3 - 2x10s to the bottom side of. I need more section for bending. the question is how do I design the fasteners and thier spacing?
