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  1. mappryan

    Simple Shear Unstiffened Steel Seat Connection

    The middle span is short because it accommodates a future rail corridor and therefore it also has to have a much higher vertical clearance then the 2 adjacent spans. The idea of the fascia was to conceal this vast difference in the beams and then could be removed if and when the future rail...
  2. mappryan

    Simple Shear Unstiffened Steel Seat Connection

    Let me first preface this by saying I am a jr. bridge engineer and have zero experience with this type of connection. We are attempting to hang a "fascia panel" in one of the spans of our bridge to make up for the drastic difference in superstructure depth. The adjacent spans have 6' deep...
  3. mappryan

    Joist Hanger Connection Design

    Inexperienced with wood connection designs (ie Simpson Strong-Tie Connectors). Heres my question: 3 Span Timber Boardwalk. Have a 11' Timber span transitioning to a 33' Glulam span. 11' span joists are 4x12 Timber while 33' span are 5.5"x20-5/8" Glu-Lam. Was thinking of going with Simpson...
  4. mappryan

    Fundamentals of Concrete Beam Analysis Question

    Should be pretty simple question. I just never thought about it before and am curious. See attached image. Thanks
  5. mappryan

    Help with WHILE loops

    IRstuff thank you. I realize what is wrong now. To fix it I am guessing there needs to be an otherwise statement added to the IF statement but I can't seem to get that to work. Any ideas of what i can do
  6. mappryan

    Help with WHILE loops

    well vec is not defined because I am using it as a function and therefore it isnt required to be defined. The origin has something to do with this problem as if i set the origin to zero in worksheet preferences both work. I think I have some sort of misunderstanding of the array indexing that...
  7. mappryan

    Help with WHILE loops

    I am very inexperienced with while loops. I am trying to write a loop that checks all the answers in a vector and if they are "OK" then it outputs "OK". I keep getting an "array index invalid for this array problem". I have written a simplified example of this problem to post here. If...
  8. mappryan

    Steel HSS Column Buckled & Sheared...Advice and Opinions Please

    Ok, to start out let me describe the situation here. My firm has been contracted to perform a failure investigation on an existing HSS 6x6x1/4 column. The building was constructed in 1994 as a grocery store. The building is currently in the process of being converted to a department store...

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