Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by readethis

  1. readethis

    HDD Reference Materials?

    Can anyone steer me towards some good reference/engineering design manuals covering the topic of Horizontal Directional Drilling? I am currently trying to design for a Highway crossing and I am new to the HDD environment. Thanks
  2. readethis

    Seismic Analysis - Why use 2/3 Horizontal value for the Vertical Value

    I was once told by a Structural Engineer that when evaluating for Seismic loading, the load combination for Seismic should include 2/3 Horizontal value for the Vertical Shear and 100% Horizontal Shear. However, I have not been able to justify the reasoning behind this rule of thumb. Can anyone...

Part and Inventory Search