I'm in the very early discussions with a GC about designing a pedestrian bridge over a stream. The bridge will serve the members of an HOA for a multifamily complex. My question, and this can even be broadened to private residential bridges:
How do you handle hydrology? Given the resent...
I'm designing a 4 story wood framed apartment in a vanilla wind zone (i.e. Vult = 115mph). Given the architectural geometry, I'm using a steel framed 2nd floor with slab on metal deck (essentially a podium slab) which supports two additional floors and the roof. The roof happens to be in a...
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I normally just browse through eng-tips and rarely ever post (this may be my first post!)
Looking through threads, I saw one from 8 years ago that touched on a questionable debate we were having in the office last week. The question was, if you have pretensioned bolts...
