When a building department says they need four sets of "wet stamped" drawings, what does this mean? I have heard two different revisions: 1. you cannot have a printer generated stamp it must originate from a ink pad stamp and be manually signed but photocopies of these drawings once that is done...
I stamped a structural drawing in Nevada. Since I stamped the drawing, the permitting authorities have come back and said they want the drawings wet stamped. Can I just "wet stamp" next to the original scanned in stamp? In other words, is it ok for two of my stamps to be on the same drawing with...
Unfortunately my concrete pedestal size is restricted. I think my best bet is as you suggested, to decrease the length of bolts and provide rebar. For my information though, is there anything you can do besides increasing your edge distance to make side face blowout work? Add rebar or something?
Can side face blowout cause anchors with a greater embedment to fail? I'm trying to design some anchor bolts into concrete with a pre-determined layout and anchor size. However when I make the bolts longer to satisfy my requirements, the bolts fail using the interaction equation with the...
