Hello All,
I was at a recent site visit and noticed closed spaced steel columns that appear to have inverted T-shape stiffeners near the bottom of the column. Please see attached pic, any ideas as to why this was done?
Hello every one,
I have a concrete slab that spans between steel beams. The contractor on site is splicing the main rebars at same location (please see attached sketch). Is this okay or is staggering splice locations required by ACI?
According to CSRI manual of standard practice, it is left to...
Hello All,
I have a concrete slab where the top surface is exposed to weather, however the bottom surface is not exposed to weather. Keeping that in mind, does the ACI allow me to have a smaller cover at the bottom? Since bottom surface is not exposed to weather?
Thank you!
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I have a question about intermediate stiffeners in plate girders. Is there a benefit of welding of the stiffeners to the compression Flange? Tight fit vs welding? which is better design and why?
Please see attached snip for your reference.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts...
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I have a question about how I can add horizontal bracing between 2-W 36 roof beams that are spanning parallel to each other. I have modeled this on sap2000, so i need to make sure when i add the bracing, they are attached to the top flange of the W36 and not the centroid of W36. See...
Hello Fellow Engineers.
I had a simple question. I performed Seismic analysis on a 30 story building using 2 methods mentioned in ASCE 7-10 using ETABS; Equivalent Lateral Force (ELF) and Response Spectrum Analysis (RSA). I was expecting the base shear from RSA to be lower than ELF base shear...
