I am trying to determine the capacity of old Simpson wood connectors from a set of existing drawings - does anyone have any ideas or pointers for where I can find this information?
The existing drawings were permitted in 1965 and note, "JOIST HANGERS SHALL BE SIMPSON TYPE F, Fd, OR 8 OR EQUAL...
I am looking for input on walking pace/speed for floor vibration analysis. The structure I am working with is a composite steel framed floor with typical 33'-4" square bays, so fairly long spans. We are using RAM Structural System for our floor vibration analysis. The criteria we are trying to...
I am a structural engineer working on a 5-on-2 wood over concrete podium job. For the wood design, we built a RISAFloor model and then exported to RISA-3D for the lateral analysis. The results we are getting from RISA-3D are essentially junk though (see below) and when I reached out to RISA...
