I am currently looking at a project to help out one of my customers who is a fabricator.
They have a project that they say is "simple" but things in this business are never simple. The building they need some assistance with is a new building designed by what I would consider a world class engineering company. My client needs me to design some of the connections for the building. In going through the plans to define my scope of work I noticed that they have specific notes on the drawing that say shear reactions are given at the working stress level and that moment reactions are given at a ultimate strength level. It is up to the connection design engineer to run the equations through some formulas in order to combine them together.
Am I behind the times in how buildings are designed nowadays? What would be the purpose to list reactions on a project it two different forms? This seems like they are purposely introducing confusion into the equations.
They have a project that they say is "simple" but things in this business are never simple. The building they need some assistance with is a new building designed by what I would consider a world class engineering company. My client needs me to design some of the connections for the building. In going through the plans to define my scope of work I noticed that they have specific notes on the drawing that say shear reactions are given at the working stress level and that moment reactions are given at a ultimate strength level. It is up to the connection design engineer to run the equations through some formulas in order to combine them together.
Am I behind the times in how buildings are designed nowadays? What would be the purpose to list reactions on a project it two different forms? This seems like they are purposely introducing confusion into the equations.