Yes, there are other places but to cut the long story short: It's an immigration problem. This company has supported me for permanent residency through employment and for that reason, I can't leave until 6 months after I receive my permanent status, which is actually, a long way to go.
That comes from the fast pace of our work environment. When I first started using LRFD, we were so busy that we were instructed not to waste! time on doing two series of calculations with/without facored loads. We were sorta ordered to use factored loads to design for moment and use AISC...
One more question guys : I always limited deflections using the "span/depth" ratio given in (beam) section of AISC. Now my question is, I design the beams with factored loads per LRFD, but, if I want to actually calculate deflections in beams I have to use service loads (non-factored loads)...
tunacan : Yes, he designs just for gravity and makes other simplifying assumptions that are hard for me to take as an engineer.
271828 : Well, yes, it's a dictatorial environment in our office. He's so controlling and also in bad mood every day that we have to do things the way he wants. As for...
Well what he says is about DC metro area where earthquake factor is 0.05 and they ignore it all the way. They even say a 90 mph wind is not controlling and just design for gravity loads. He was saying the 33% increase in allowable stresses puts LC's with wind loads off the table because wind...
Well, you're right about his background! He has 30 years of experience and even he himself admits that his methods are 30 years old. To give you a better idea, I should say that he hesn't even started to use LRFD method yet!!! I don't argue actually, I've been mostly discussing the matter with...
That's exactly what I told him. He was arguing that you define the behavior of the system by the design concept you choose. I didn't agree and said technically, you can not ignore the fact that moment will be transferred between beams & columns so you can not dictate your thoughts all the time...
Hi there. This might sound really weired but today I got involved in a discussion with our senior engineer who has 30 years of experience under his belt. (I've joined this company just recently) He was saying that in east coast we do not consider earthquake loads in design and also in areas...
