trying to understand how SAFE works using a simple model:
I have a grade beam sitting on soil, with an huge uplifting vertical force towards one end. by hand, the grade beam overturns despite the grade beam's weight (the uplift force is way more than the gradebeam weight, btw - the gradebeam...
i'm designing an HSS platform on a concrete roof. the platform supports two AC units, and the platform consists of beams which span to short HSS posts. the columns are anchored to the concrete roof slab, over concrete columns (the slab and beams cannot support the AC/platform dead loads). the...
hey guys. anyone have any experience with Chapter F13 of the steel manual? i've never used it nor heard of it and just came across it.
if anyone had just some general thoughts on it or even design examples, that'd be jolly. thanks in advance
hi guys. anyone ever use AISC Table 8-1, with the coefficients C? just curiuos how to use it. if someone could spit out a quick example, that'd be tubular.
hey guys. i'm having to check an existing roof top sign. the sign is anchored on the roof structure. via a braced frame type of system. the height of the roof is about 170', and the sign is an addition 30' high or so. i'm trying to nail down the wind loads from asce 7-10, but having a hard time...
