I was curious if anyone has ever encountered a masonry corbel with embedded steel members (pics below)? My initial reaction was that the stiffness of these members must be so much smaller than the surrounding masonry, they wouldn't be providing much strength to the cantilever/corbel, right...
I'm a structural engineer serving in a role as owner's rep / authority having jurisdiction. One of our facilities is looking at installing new hoist equipment in an existing mechanical room. My conundrum involves a facility manager who wants to install a hoist that could exceed the capacity of...
I attached a photo, for a situation I'm facing in trying to help a friend with some home renovations. For the record, I'm a structural engineer with a P.E. but I don't have a ton of wood experience beyond what was needed for the P.E. exam.
Basically, I was just curious if others on here would...
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I'm helping an architect friend on a home-remodel job. The existing situation I'm looking at has a two-story house and a detached one-story garage. The design calls for adding a second story to the garage and building a new enclosed two-story connector that links the house and the garage...
