Question: Is it acceptable to design a wood beam for the shear at 'd' from support?
I researched this topic, here and elsewhere, but was unable to find a good answer.
This thread (http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=21883) had good explanations for steel and concrete, but wood fell off...
Framing system: Light-frame bearing walls with wood sheathing.
Codes: IBC, ASCE 7, NDS SDPW&S
Is it acceptable to design collectors based on the capacity of the shear wall, in lieu of using omega, rho, or the other required loads per ASCE 7? While I have not seen anything explicitly or...
I recently looked into lateral bracing of steel beams. Per AISC, I need to brace both top and bottom flanges.
I wanted to check the stiffness of just using stiffener plates to brace the bottom flange when the top flange is fully braced. See attached.
When I check it this way, the stiffness...
I ran across something interesting lately. An engineer that uses friction on the face (dirt side) of a retaining wall to resist overturning.
It is interesting because I have never seen this. Even asking other engineers and searching all around the web and my reference material, no one uses...
Would anyone like to help educate me on the concept of cross-grain bending? I've known, and avoided, only 2 cases where this might occur:
1) A wood diaphragm is nailed to a wood ledger, which is bolted to a concrete/CMU wall. If the wall tries to pull away from the diaphragm, the anchor bolts...
My company recently picked up SAFE to see how well it works for elevated and mat slabs. The 2014 version has some glitches that were confirmed by CSI, so we are thinking of looking into older SAFE versions.
To any of you that use SAFE, what version do you use? How do you like it? Is there...
ETABS question involving line springs and how they work in ETABS:
A line element, drawing along the X axis only. Y and Z coordinate values are 0. If you define a line spring in the X direction, with no point springs or point restraints, how is that line stable when subjected to loads in the X...
