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I have pondered on this question before but never really tried to give it any answer. I typically work on multi story buildings no more that 5 stories, I have some design experience and just about to take the PE exam.
My questions is more of a theoretical one. in my experience I’ve...
Hello guys I’m having a hard time reading off this chart. I’m given a L2/L1 ratio of 1.55 and a alphaL2/L1 of 0.6, I can follow that to the .65, the books says for B=o is 1 and for B=2.6 is .65. Then you need to follow the dashed line to the right up to 1 and then left to get 0.86 or so. The...
Hello guys, I was given the task to design the connection for a sign to be supported by a block wall. I came up with 2 rectangular hss3.5”x3.5”x5/16”
Per support Top and bot connected to the wall ( total of 4 supports) spaced every 4’ or so. My question is my approach was to firstly calculate...
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Just recently embarked into wood design. Reading up on a wood design book I came across the design of a hip beam but the calcs proposed in the book don’t jive well with me and I wanted to get someone else’s opinion. I know books get revisions so it should be ok but the problem is...
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I am looking at a doubly reinforced beam 8"x18" with 2#8 bars top and bot witg 2.5" cover everywhere meaning d 15.5". when i do the strain analysis i get a strain in the compression steel of .0018 which isn't quite yielded yet, based on hooks law we have .0018X29000 for the stress in the...
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I am designing a stair going up to a mezzanine, its gotta be supported by an isolated footing and a precast wall. Had to do the calcs by hands since there was no software available to do so so technically my support conditions used are fixed at the bottom level and pinned up top. My...
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I was wondering what are the typical loads on a acting on a tie beam along the roof of a structure and should there be tie beam between every column?
