Have a stage rigging loads question regarding a new high school gym project I am working on with a stage area. The roof framing over this wood framed gym will be wood trusses spanning 80' designed by a truss manufacturer. The client would like to have the ability to secure rigging to the bottom...
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Question about a vaulted ceiling design, for a 26' x 52' small church with timber framed 8' tall walls. The roof pitch is very steep, 14/12 and I am tasked with coming up with something that works. The ridge will be at 25', very tall, and the architect wants collar ties 10' down from...
Question for everyone, I have to bolt a steel channel to an existing pile. I have 3 ft of lateral earth pressure that will be pushing on the channel, and it will be cantilevered to the pile. To be able to get it to work, I will likely need to use a through bolt, then weld a knife plate to the...
Anyone have any ideas for this problem I am trying to think of something to recommend? Basically see the attached sketch, at a residential driveway there is fill which the soil pressure has caused 12" timber piles to lean, there are a total of 8 piles, the largest span between two of the piles...
Very new engineer, just got out of school 2 months ago and now working on a project and got a RFI from a project currently in construction that I didn't work on but need to respond to. Basically I have a roof system with 14 GA 1000S162 joists spanning only 12 feet in the area of question at 16"...
