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I am currently working on a project where the client is looking to construct a mezzanine level within an existing portal frame structure. This shall be a fairly heavily loaded mezzanine as there is plenty of plant to be stored on it.
We have been searching the council archives for...
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Some engineers say they are comfortable using 1.0 as a stiffness modifier when analysisng concrete cores of tall buildings under wind loading. Is there any specific guidance on this or is it just what is comfortable. Im working to eurocodes.
My thinking was to look at the analysis...
Hello, has anyone had to calculate the tensile stress on a cable balustrade which has UDL applied along its length?
Looking from guidance online most calculations seem to be based on an initial sag, which we don't know and for horizontal loads it will probably be 0mm.
We know the tensile...
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I have came across attached detail and was wondering what everyones thoughts were on it.
There is a requirement to add an additional strip beside an existing strip as they are looking to extend upwards thus increasing load. This foundation is currently on party wall between garages...
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Please see attached for reference. These doors get used everywhere in the UK and I was wondering how they can be justified to work structurally apart from the usual response of "we have used these everywhere".
This situation may arise in timber frame construction...
