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I have recently started working in the post-frame timber construction industry and I have been reviewing ASAE EP484.3. In section 5.3 it states that endwall and shearwall stiffness can be obtained from either full scale building tests, validated structural models, or from tests of...
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I am attaching a snip of a structure that I am designing. This structure is supported by a concrete wall on slab. My question is simple, do I measure the mean roof height (h) from the top of the mat foundation or would it be measured from the top of the wall where the steel...
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My company designs a lot of structures for the mining and aggregate industry. Typically, we use 19W4 bar grating for the floors on the towers we design. I have struggled a lot with vertical effects of wind on these structures. Some in our office have the opinion that we should...
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In the pictured that I have pasted to this message is a material handling conveyor that I have worked on. This conveyor is approximately 171 feet long and sits on lattice supports called bents that are concentrically braced. I am really struggling with how to classify the truss...
I am attempting to understand the wind loading in the new ASCE 7. At the bottom of Figure 27.3-7 on page 262, in the caption, there is a condition in parentheses (0.25 less than or equal to h/L less than or equal to 1). I design screen towers for the aggregate industry a lot which look similar...
In the attached file, I am showing a bracing connection that I am attempting to design. The connection is failing according to RISA Connection because the software is considering bending in the knife plate as well as a combined tension/compression and flexure interaction per Chapter H in the...
I have been reading through the limit states for transverse stiffeners. I am attempting to formulate a design strategy for stiffening column base plates to avoid using extremely thick plates when the moment gets large. I have come to the conclusion that, because the stiffener is welded to both...
I have been reading through AISC design guide 1 and I came to appendix B to the design example of a base plate with large moment. I have been staring at the equation for the bending moment in the plate per unit width of plate for hours trying to understand how it is derived. I don't understand...
I am attempting to learn Robot Structural Analysis. I am trying to understand how the automatic wind simulator works. I see that you can set either the pressure or wind velocity then build a profile with velocity coefficients. I use ASCE 7-10 so I am curious if anyone knows which coefficient I...
I am applying an area load to an open lattice structure. But when I run the analysis and look at the transient loads, it doesn't seem to be considering the chevron bracing between columns on the lattice. I am pretty sure that, even though it is only L2x2x1/4 shapes, it still would be exposed and...
There was a discussion in my office today about applying wind load to a trussed tower. The engineer at my new employer thinks that if wind is blowing against the windward face of a trussed tower that the wind load should also be applied in the same direction on the leeward side. I am of the...
I have been trying to find information on a problem for a while. If I am designing a platform made from steel, how would one design the welds that attach the checker plate flooring to the members used as stiffeners? The stiffeners could be any type of member that could be used as a floor beam...
