Hi Everyone,
I have designed a freezer floor. My question is around the drawdown i.e. the dropping of the temperature of the concrete in the freezer room.
We are specifiying a typical drawdown procedure.
After 21 days of casting
1. Reduce temperature from ambient (approximately 22...
Question on this can I not just brace the rafter and vertical towards the centre, provided that the bracing has sufficient capacity for one bay only to be braced? Would it create problems with respect to erection.
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I am looking at rafter bracing for a portal frame structure approximately 80m long.
I have always braced the 2 end bays in for rafter bracing and the the ends of the building in the rafter and then towards the centre of the building for vertical bracing.
Cracking in cylindrical liquid retaining structures.
Hi can anyone assist me with this, when a circular reservoir is designed to resist ring tension you will get cracking from the ring tension and thermal effects. As both these cracks are vertical, you would expect the crack from thermal...
