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I am tasked with certifying a large batch (>100) gangways for a shipyard. I feel I've gotten as far as I can on my own, and by searching old threads, so here I am making a new thread.
These gangways were all made in house at the shipyard, with no previous engineering design...
It appears this Goomba tower's anchorage wasn't sufficiently attached to deal with the proper C&C windloading. The embed video makes it look like the tower is integral, with the failure taking place at the base.
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I have been tasked with designing a special reinforced concrete cantilevered moment frame. This is a 14' concrete column over an isolated footing.
I have three issues of design that I am unsure on, and wish to be properly addressed.
1) I have a redundant rho factor...
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Sorry for such an entry level questions. I did a forum such but nothing came up of use.
I am curious when a detail is required. What, in general, should be signaling to me that a detail is required?
Secondarily, if a detail is required, when is it ok to specify a prescriptive...
Hello fellow applied physics nerds. I've been scratching my head over a design concept that I was tasked with demonstrating is 'safe' (to the standards of the ibc and asce 7).
The design is with a glass on the edge of the building. This is a location that needs fall protection per IBC. I...
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I'm doing analysis on an eccentrically loaded bolt group, that is experiencing loads that are both eccentric and out of plane of the faying surface.
Hilti Profis does this analysis, you can apply Mx, My, and Mz, as well as Fx, Fy, Fz from any point.
I've gone through their design...
I have moved firms and my current firm uses Risa, while my previous firm used SAP2000 for the finite element analysis.
I have a bunch of Risa models that I need to output. I was 'familiar' with the SAP2000 Oapi system, and could write a simple script. In this case I need to print out the...
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I am thinking of getting either a Wacom tablet or a Microsoft surface. (My firms computers are all Windows, so an Apple device doesn't seem like a good fit) I'd like to get better at drawing, detailing, and develop my own library of details. My firm has a 'standard detail library' with...
Hello again! Back with another wood connection question.
This time I'm analysizing an eccentricly loaded bolt group connecting to an LSL
I was originally finding the resultant force of the eccentric load, and applying it evenly across the bolts, but decided to do some searching in the forum...
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I’m back with another wood connection question.
I’m working on a balcony attachment plate. The steel plate is ¼” thick. The original plan was to have it attach to the wood nailers at the top and bottom of the steel wide flange beam using lag bolts. It appears my loads are...
I am doing a solar panel on roof design. I have been asked by the plan checker to show the analysis of the thrust on this system. I must admit I’m not exactly sure what “thrust” is in this context. Is this additional outward force applied to the walls by an increase in load on the roof?
This...
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A bit about me, as I’m going to be asking a lot of newbie questions going forward, and as I know and learn more, I hope to be sharing my knowledge with others. Currently I work in a small office, with the principal out much of the time, and no one to ask these questions.
I never took a...
