I have an existing building with a new addition to be constructed adjacent to it (both single story). The existing building has exterior walls consisting of unreinforced CMU with brick veneer (cavity appears to be grouted solid below grade). The exterior walls have reinforced pilasters...
I have a project that may require reinforcing the chords of an existing open web steel joist (K series from the late 1980s). I am adding a concentrated load of approximately 600 lbs about 1.5 ft from the end of a 35 ft long joist. I developed a plot of the allowable moment and shear capacity...
So I have been looking through the program menus and the manual and cannot seem to find a way to set Cb = 1.0 in RAM Frame Standard Steel Provisions for the AISC 360-10 Code. Does anyone know of a way to do this or does the program not allow a user to override the value for Cb? I know it can...
I have a metal deck diaphragm that has a double notch on one end. I am using the methodology in "The Analysis of Irregular Shaped Structures" by Malone and Rice for determining the shear and chord forces in the diaphragm (I know the book was written for wood structures but the analysis to...
