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Haven't read much of the tread. My guess, because if you're not guessing, you're not playing along: The compromise was with a connection from the secondary truss to the top chord of the main truss on the South and East side. The connection was corroded or fatigued or both; it was bad and...

I’m designing a salt storage facility. One wall is going to be a push wall, where the payloaders push the salt into their bucket. This wall is going to have salt about 13’ high on it and will be supported at the top by precast plank. The wall itself is a simple basement wall. I’m wondering...

JAE, My question about the Vulcraft and SDI deck tables: How do these relate to composite design. These tables must only relate to non-composite design, right? I mean as soon as I weld that stud through the deck I should have the ability to transfer as much shear as the stud will take and...

With France opening the worlds tallest brige I got to thinking. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/12/14/france.bridge.ap/index.html How do you bridge guys handle unbalaced loading in cable-stayed bridges that only have a single row of cables at the center of the deck. Is the deck a big...

ASCE 7-02 lists 16 psf for 3/4" ceramic or quarry tile on 1/2" mortar bed. What do you use for the dead load in normal homes that have 3/8" tile with the backer board? With the backer board grouted down and the grout for the tile you have about 1/2" of mortar, I'm assuming the 16 psf above...