I am checking the capacity of an existing parking garage, originally designed for passenger cars (live load of 50 psf was used) to use it for parking vans and light trucks. The vans are around 9,000 lbs and are parked on one floor. The trucks are 19,000 lbs and are parked on a different floor...
I have the usual references for design of embed plates in concrete walls, concrete slabs but how do you design an embed with headed studs into a concrete beam. The embed is used to conect a steel beam with a very large reaction (concrete breakout won't work). The plate is as deep as the concrete...
