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    Shallow frost-protected or passive house foundations

    Hi folks, I'm a structural engineer, specializing in timber and used to designing pretty simple frost-wall foundations up in the tundra of New England. I'm looking to design more haunched-slab or raft-slab foundations at residential scale, both for warmer climates and for...
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    Shrinkage in deep glu-lam to steel connection

    Hello all! Long time reader, first time poster. I'm looking at a connection in which a deep (36") glulam timber tees into a W beam, with steel deck and slab over both. By my math, this timber will shrink by roughly 5/8" from its as-manufactured moisture content of ~15% to in-service MC of ~8%...

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