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Refer to the linked picture. I am designing a retaining wall to support a salt pile. I am familiar with the procedure for calculating the force on a wall with sloped backfill but the problem here is that the salt being stacked at the angle of repose gives me a very large Ka value (case 1 in...

Hi, I have a situation where a contractor has cut off part of an anchor rod so that there is not enough thread length to attach the nut on top of the baseplate. The rod in question is F1554 GR. 36 steel. I'm aware that sometimes people will weld nuts to the bolt/rod, has anyone here done a...

Hi, does anyone know of any software that can design anchor bolts along with base plate checks (+stiffeners if required)? Also is anyone aware of a program that can do the bolt design while specifying the location of small openings or re-entrant corners (as opposed to being limited to specifying...

Hi, right now, I live in Toronto, Canada. I've just got my BASc in civil engineering, most of my courses were in structural engineering, however I also did a bit of building science. I've heard the building science is an emerging and fast growing field, and that you can go alot farther in it...