Hey guys, I'm doing a simple design on a friends 1890 built house (London) for a structural beam to span between what I thought was an internal brick wall... the builder uncovered the plasterboard earlier and exposed a timber stud brick infill wall.
I'll need to get called over to the site...
A bit of a checklist to help guide you (from a calc package I am currently throwing together for something similar)
Frame Geometry
Loads (Dead and Live), including wind (you'll need to research into wind loads on a canopy roof i.e. pressure coefficients)
Application of loads
Load combinations...
I am considering a mass conc. pad foundation for a small framed open sided building (designed as freestanding walls/canopy roof). Wind dictates the design and therefore there are quite large horizontal shear values at the supports.
I am taking a friction (μ) value of 0.3, and the base is...
Hopefully the attachment will explain this better than I can in writing.
I using Staad Pro to model a substructure on poor ground (subgrade modulus 2800kN/m2/m), with trenches throughout. To avoid attracting high stresses at the wall/slab intersection I have made a lower level slab throughout...
Currently designing a water storage tank in Saudi Arabia. The tank is 70m long with no movement joints, inducing very large tension forces within the walls due to temperature differentials. It is 7m high and 1m is above ground.
As it is in Saudi it's subject to large temperature differentials...
