Thanks again, everyone. To address a few questions...I did fill out and sign a disclosure form. I did not list anything of a sturtural nature because in my professional opinion, there was nothing of note, structurally, to be disclosed. Everything that seemed questionable, I did my own analysis...
Thanks for all the good advice, everyone. I'm really torn at this point as to what to do. I don't want to risk the sale falling through, and even more important, I don't want to risk my professional reputation and my professional future if this becomes a huge issue. My agent is recommending I...
Thanks, JAE. It is quite the conflict of interest, but the buyer and the agents are aware I'm a structural engineer and they are deferring to me to document ("certify" in their own words) that the framing is adequate. I can simply provide them my calculations and see if that suffices for them...
Hello all - looking for a little advice. I'm a practicing structural engineer (6+ years) in the commercial world. Not yet licensed, but taking the exam later this month. I'm currently under contract to sell my house (100+ years old), but the buyer's home inspector had issues with some joist...
Thanks for the help everyone. I did use KE to determine the lateral impact load. I was trying to avoid it, but it looks like I'll have to design piers and pier caps for each bollard. Thanks for the spreadsheet, vmirat.
Relatively unscathed. We are allowed a 30 degree yield on the 8" steel bollard. It's an airport project, so they want to completely keep vehicles away. Not just slow them down.
I'm trying to design the foundation/anchorage for pipe bollards under pretty high loads. I'm designing for a 5500# truck at 45 mph (per aviation specs) and an allowance of 30 degree give on the bollard. Assuming crumpling of the truck, I'm looking at a 95,000# horizontal load at 18" above the...
