We have a vertical steel plate connected to a concrete wall by mechanical anchor bolts with a gap of about 2cm between the steel plate and the concrete. The gap was not accounted for during design. Is there a structurally sound way to seal this gap (for example: non shrinkable structural grout)?
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I need to find out the wind loads an aluminium framed skylight in the shape of a hexagonal pyramid. I would like to know which parts of the ACSE code deals with this shape of structures so that I can figure out the external and internal pressure coefficients for each face at any wind...
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I need to design a steel plate to distribute an axial point load coming down from a lifting jack onto a concrete floor. The steel plate is 7m in length, and 1.5m in width. The total load from the lifting jack is 400kN. The contact area between the steel plate and lifting jack is...
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I am new to SAP2000, and trying to analyse an aluminium curtain wall with glass infill panels. I have often modelled curtain walls in Robot Autodesk Structural Analysis, and had no problem with that.
To model the curtain wall in SAP2000, I have done the following:
1. Defined and drew...
