Hello, I'm a structural engineering student working on a small project in Tanzania for a class. We're building a new structure and renovating an older one that has several cracks on the exterior plaster facade. The older structure is 1 story CIP foundation, columns, and ring beam with infill...
I'm looking at sports facility type structure, it's about 400'x400' and steps in the center from an elevation of 155' to 185'. I've attached a picture of it's profile, which basically extends into the page for 400 feet (some reentrant corners though.)
We're designing the lateral system and I...
Should filter fabric be allowed to extend underneath the footing as shown in the first image (pink)? I feel like I would want to prevent that for some reason. So the second and third images show my own guesses. Although I'm not sure why; bearing pressure is what's important for a wall footing...
Hi all, I'm having some difficulty figuring out the load path taken by the forces from crane to strut to embed connection. I've attached several drawings to present the situation, it's pretty typical I believe. The crane has 3 struts tying into 2 "shoes" made of several plates welded together...
I was wondering if anybody else has encountered this, or if my results seem valid. I'm designing a canopy lift, basically a long HSS tube that's going to be picked up and moved. In SAP2000 I modeled the tube and the cables that will be lifting it; for the cables I modeled wire rope as a steel...
Have y'all ever seen links used in columns as shown in the attachment? I understand at some spots in the column, like where vertical bars splice and so they have to slope,it might not be preferable to use square ties since their size will be changing along the slope. However even then I've only...
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I'm an intern trying to determine the capacity of the angle shown in the attachment but I'm having trouble figuring out how to do so. PROFIS or other software that I know of don't have such embeds in their inventory so we thought of figuring out an analogous shape. The attachment shows...
I believe I remember reading somewhere that contractors prefer beams that are a different width than the column they are framing into for ease of construction. However, I can't remember the reason behind this. So first off, is this true? Should the beam be smaller than, the same size as, or...
