I’m entertaining purchasing a 36” wide color plotter for my new business and was curious what others might recommend. My volume of printing would be relatively low. For example, I doubt I would ever print over 100 sheets a month. The print speed does not need to be very fast. The plots would...
I'm working on a "simple" wood beam design tool. The beam can be rotated about it's longitudinal axis, with a rotation of 0 meaning that it's oriented in the strong direction for gravity loading, 90 degrees is a flatwise orientation, etc. The loads are always acting vertically (in the gravity...
The AISC code gives equations to calculate tension rupture strength and shear rupture strength for failure surfaces perpendicular to and parallel to the direction of loading, but for a failure surface which is along a diagonal, it's not clear how the strength should be calculated. Refer to...
Based on a thread from last week in which the use of proprietary wood fasteners was brought up, I decided to take a deeper look into GRK RSS screws. I've noticed in the past large differences between manufacturer data and the lateral design values found in NDS Tables 12J and 12L for lag/wood...
For a slender, reinforced masonry column designed per the strength design requirements of TMS 402-16, how are column slenderness and P-delta effects being fully accounted for in the design and why are the requirements for a column different from those for a wall?
I understand that the nominal...
