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I have a beam landing on the corner of a continuous masonry wall, if a corner padstone is used is it reasonable to design the bearing pressure under the padstone as if it was a straight padstone centrally loaded?
the design codes do not consider this case and i am wondering about accounting...
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I am doing a check on an observation tower which essentially consists of a wooden hut on a bare braced steel frame and wanted to check if my wind loading is correct. I am using Eurocodes and the tower arrangement with a clad structure on top doesn't appear to be considered directly, from...
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I have an existing portal frame structure i have to check where there appears to have been a mistake in the fabrication of the column / rafter connection, the column flange holes for the bolts were misaligned and new ones were drilled to match the haunch endplate. Many of these additional...
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I am looking at a mezzanine design to Eurocodes (EC). The advice specific to this type of structure seems a bit sparse, BRE Digest 437 gives guidance that is mainly to the old British Standards (BS) but dips into Eurocodes as well.
My question is regarding the appropriate equivalent...
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I have a question regarding the general angle that should be taken to distribute loads through masonry for the purpose of designing structure lower down the wall. I have looked online but cannot find a specific reference to this, EC6 6.1.3 shows a 60° spread below a concentrated load...
