I've been designing a lot of structures lately that are right along the coastline. Retaining walls, soil nail walls, box culverts, etc... Since they are getting constantly battered with waves, we have been using stainless steel and GFRP rebar. The stainless steel is used mainly for the flexural...
I was hoping to start writing some very basic FE code to solve simple structural problems. I would not consider myself a programmer and only know C++, Fortran, and MATLAB. This will be difficult but is something that I have a lot of interest in. Does anyone know any good books that address...
I am a new engineer at a structural engineering firm. My first 3 projects have all been walls. First a cantilever, Second a Tieback, Third a soil nail. The 60% design I submitted for the tieback needs to be updated for our next submittal. I did some rudimentary calcs for the tieback wall by hand...
I am a new engineer at a structural engineering firm. My first 3 projects have all been walls. First a cantilever, Second a Tieback, Third a soil nail. The 60% design I submitted for the tieback needs to be updated for our next submittal. I did some rudimentary calcs for the tieback wall by hand...
I used SAP2000 while in school but my company has a license for RISA. I am creating a mesh of plate elements in RISA to simulate a tie-back retaining wall. The Geotechnical engineer gave me some loading diagrams that are triangular, trapezoidal, and uniform. It seems that I can easily apply the...
I am a new designer at a structural engineering firm in Honolulu. I was wondering if anyone had a good reference to the design of tieback retaining walls? I am more interested in the structural side of things such as the design of the anchorage zone and stressing blocks as opposed to the...
