Hi All,
This topic has been bothering me for the past few weeks. What are your thoughts about punching shear check at wall ends and wall corners?
The CSA and ACI codes are strangely silence on this subject. Personally, I don't see how the slab can punch through at just the wall ends? What's the...
Hello all.
I have a question regarding bottom integrity steel provision for two way slab design.
CSA 23.3 specifies a minimum integrity steel area at the four faces of a column (Asb = 2V / fy).
In the case of a garage roof with 1-m of soil on top, If I were to design per CSA, I would need...
Hello all,
I am looking at installing a built-up beam that spans 18 ft. The problem is, I only have access to 2x6 lumber that is 12 ft long; so i have to splice them at the end somehow.
In a continuous beams, you would just splice the ends at the support post. But i do not have an intermediate...
