cdafd, see below:
1. when you say open area, do you mean completely open?? no side walls, no canopy? That is correct, it is completely open. No walls or canopy.
2. Do you know which fire code and edition the city has adopted??? I believe it's the 2018 North Carolina State Building Code, which...
We have a manufacturing facility, and we do painting in an open air area. We have never had an issue over the previous 40 years during fire inspections. We even had OSHA and the DNR come through in the past and the VOC's we release are within the allowable amount.
Recently, a new deputy fire...
Thank you for the reply Mark.
I have another question.
There is also 1" steel plate which covers the entire slab. In determining the strength for punching shear, I'm trying to figure out how much the plate will distribute the wheel loads (a single large vehicle). I can completely ignore the...
I have a suspended 7" slab which has a 2" cement mortar finish. My question is if I can use the entire depth when calculating my effective depth d. The center of the bottom reinforcement is 7/16" from the bottom. So, my question is if my d in the punching shear equations can be 9" - 7/16", or...
