Thank you all for the feedback. ntattose posted exactly my first plan, but the overall design is for a pole barn, and I've only considered that as a "cantilevered beam" from a moment diagram perspective. Therefore, the moment diagram is maximum at the base of the column (looks like a triangle)...
Hi ALL,
I am designing a pole barn, and the client wants to use Triad Building Components Nail Laminated Columns. I have the manufactures report and from what I can see the columns have different Fb values based on different locations in the column and at the splice joints. So what value...
The guy who became a teacher kept a 1/4" x 3/4" sticky note over the clock of his computer monitor so he wouldn't keep counting down the hours till he could go home, and I think most sane people would agree with that if they even ran ACI RD.4 by hand as was required by our employer at the time...
MIStructE_IRE -
Your post pushed me off the sidelines and I finally registered as a member, so thank you.
I have seen similar post on the symptoms you described and I also have that same anxiety, it has to be an almost universal feeling for structural engineers. Two of the "smartest"...
