@wannabeSE - The soils report will provide allowable bearing pressures, lateral pressures, and friction coefficients. Although some of those values are used in the checks, the overturning and sliding checks are completely separate from what the soils engineer does.
Additionally, I have...
Ok, so looking through this forum and others there seems to be a big debate with people on both sides whether a 1.5 factor of safety needs to be applied to the 0.6DL + WL load case. From my research I have come to the conclusion you do not double them up, with the below linked article stating...
We have recently got a job to design a stair case for a building in china. Rather than just specing normal AISC and ASTM beams we want to spec sizes and materials common in china. I have been searching and have found the ASTM Handbook of Comparative World Steel Standards 4th Edition. Which...
