I'm a Canadian citizen living in Canada - I have a US SSN and used to have a TN Visa, but otherwise have no real ties to the US. I'm licensed in numerous Canadian provinces and US states. I'd like to explore offering engineering services in the US, but don't even know where to start in terms of...
@KootK - this was just a general question. It could be anything from a convention center, 3 story hospital, or a basic (from my perspective) 30 story office building. I think your redlines on the diagram show we are saying the same thing. My confusion is largely in the fact that the code...
@XR250 - yep, you end up debating about it for a month before the GC pushes and the design team decides it's OK to ignore the requirements they specified based on the first person to propose some feel-good logic. Which is probably not all wrong, but it can get annoying to have the same arguments...
@skeletron - I'll have to digest that a bit more. I just do misc. small delegated stuff so building design is out of my realm. Thank you for the input
@KootK - I thought about this...reading through ASCE chapter 12 I understood the "elastic drift" gets multiplied by Cd to get a give more...
I don't think this would be a good application...I don't have my steel code (AISC) with me but you will find somewhere in section J plug welds should not be used in tension.
For something like this my first thought would be using a threaded weld stud. The weld machine for a 3/4" stud is quite...
A typical performance requirement for a curtain wall, as it relates to building drift, is: 1. nothing falls off the building in a design level earthquake, and 2. it remains air/water tight after a service level event (10 year wind event usually).
I've recently seen the requirement for the...
