Hi all,
For existing residential buildings, the owners sometimes want to remove an interior wall, mostly at the kitchen or the living room to make the house more open. They would hire an engineer just to check if it is a bearing wall since that is the only thing they care about. For me it's not...
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I have a potential client asked me to help him with a renovation project. He hired an architect as well. It is an existing warehouse with no existing drawings. He wants to convert it into a restaurant (occupancy change so risk category change from I to II I believe). He asked me to do...
Hi All,
Not really a technical question but when do you use your own company (structural) title block for structural drawings vs using the architect's title block? I have seen both but is there a rule for it?
Thank you
Hi all,
I'm using a steel angle with epoxy bolts to connect a composite floor diaphragm to a CMU shear wall. Can I use the spot welds (weld the deck to the angle) to transfer the diaphragm shear into the steel angle ? Or I should use headed studs instead?
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Hi Guys,
When we have two wood beams (just for example), one beam sits on top of the other beam and there is an uniform load acting on top of the top beam, assume two beams have the same size and are laterally supported, can we assume each beam will carry 1/2 of the total load acting on top of...
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I am trying to find a way to extend the existing square footing to support additional load from the column. I was told that I could follow the idea in the attached photo below. Just dig out some soil at the edge of the existing footing and pour new concrete with some rebars and connect the...
