Hi All,
I have to design the footing for a truss brace. Please see attached image. Under wind loading the support reactions at the base of the footing are 82kN and -82.5kN. Do these forces cancel out each other with the total uplift load as 0.5kN or do I need to design a footing with a SW of...
Hi all,
I have to design the walls of a valve pit to restrain thrust from the pipes going in, could you please advise me on how to calculate the thrust force from a pipe that's passing through the valve pit walls (with puddle flanges), no bends or change in size of the pipe as it is passing...
Hi all,
I have to design a stone (grouted) gravity retaining wall (1.1m tall). I had designed it in such a way that the resisting moment due to self weight was much higher than the overturning moment due to soil pressure but now the client would like to fix fencing over the wall. With the...
Hi all, would it be okay to cut the top of a chemset bolt to make it flush with the base plate and plug weld the top of the bolt hole as required? The pinned base plates have been designed for compression, there is no uplift. Therefore, I am thinking the only purpose of the chemset bolts is to...
