Recent content by lexpatrie

I use the same version. I might have found something a touch more streamlined fron a 2012 YouTube video...

I take it the project is in New York so there is no statute of repose? But this cracking isn't a structural defect from your description, not being able to put down crappy vinyl flooring doesn't seem like much on the whole economic harm doctrine either. Unless it's a health code issue, or...

Not seeing a question, here. Just a lot of author bias. "Secondary issue of ridiculous ad hoc stud patterns at second floor right side wall, where the builder used up all of his shorts to complete the framing to the top of the second floor (real clown act)." This was pretty standard practice...

Uh not for the casual user is that. I thought there'd just be a command that could be typed into the immediate window to "fix" the chart once,

Having seen Structural I on several plans (one multi story residential and one high end single family OUTSIDE California) I have yet to see the stamp on the supplied product, eight to ten years after it was built, so I would suggest engineers outside California avoid using this material if at...

For those too tired to google... PCI.org Design Tables and Charts

There really isn't that much reason to take on this liability, considering the hokiness of any "analysis", I see what the truss design engineers are willing to stamp (it's their product and their software, and their plates, and ultimately, their license to defend against the board and their...

I could use a basic description of how this even works, I take it there's no hoist beam at the top of the shaft? Basement elevator design is a new one to me.... it's got a cable that's being pulled down on to lift the elevator? Skipping past that, generally a new anchorage is going to involve...

The Morabito drawings for Champlain Towers South shows their repair approach, (up to you on how much confidence you have in thst sort of repair) and there's what, ACI 562? The shear friction provisions require surface prep and roughening and removing any laitance with a wire brush, that makes...

You could specify removal to match the minimum shelf for the weld size if you wanted, I'm not aware of any standards, the galvanized is "hazardous" but it's the zinc vapor so a mask or other PPE (onus on the welder, not you) and ventilation I'm under the impression suffices, the galvanzing...

That's not a cope, that's some invented thing there's no testing for. Cope strengths are based on physical testing. This is not.

Are there not load tables for the product?

SDC A requires a positive connection for 1% of the load, doesn't it? Bearing onto the perpendicular to grain wpod top plate is going to make that top plate pretty unhappy, a steel bearing plate could be used to reduce crushing, or land on the end grain of a post which probably interrupts your...

The alternative is equilibrium torsion where the torsional resistance is needed for stability.

They make inclined hangers as well. Beyond potential rollover on the top plate during wind uplift, and a funky diaphragm termination.