I work for a private company that contracts with various jurisdictions to do plan checking on small to medium projects.
The designing engineer has provided a set of calculations with the drawings, and he is using Enercalc for the retaining wall calculations. He has input his wall data and in...
I am planchecking some plans for various sized retaining walls. The engineer is using Enercalc. The first thing I wondered is if the walls will need special inspection, so I looked down at the Masonry Data and saw that "NO" has been handwritten. However, the engineer also included the...
I've started a new job and inherited some really shoddy typical details. I'm sorting them out as I go along, and today's problem is our shear wall schedule.
I am in California, which uses the California version of the '97 UBC. The schedule I have seems to be based on the '94 UBC (3/8" ply...
I think boo1 had most of the answer earlier...according to Table 8.5.3 of the '91 NDS, when the direction of loading is parallel to the grain, the edge distance is 1.5D. The spacing of anchor bolts is determined by the shear load in the wall, which acts parallel to the grain.
Consider a 20psf...
