When you perform shear wall design you go from roof down and do tributary area loading at each diaphragm elevation and as you go down you add these up. When you are designing a moment frame in RISA do you still need to add up the shear at each elevation as you go down, or can you just put in...
Situation: an engineer is analyzing a structure and first pass-through determines the Wind exposure category as B, then does the seismic evaluation and finds that seismic controls, but "decides" that they do not want seismic to control and changes the wind exposure to C and then say voila wind...
Hey Just doing a quick check, I read some other threads on beam on elastic for enercalc and how it is applied.
But the didnt seem to answer the question I have, is when is it appropriate to use beam on elastic? I read some people use it to model a 1' strip and in the manual i read it only...
I had posted about ethics in residential and I found that "engineering judgement" gets used when the area is grey which is what judgement is so makes sense, But I'm curious what other engineers residential/commercial think what engineering judgement is.
So I've been posting on here cause I came from commerical and started at a residential firm.
And things are happening that I wouldn't do in commerical or design that way. I am having a hard time understanding where the disconnect it. At first I thought it was my understanding of residential...
I cant find it clearly stated any where, In the state of Colorado are you allowed with permission to seal a set of structural drawings using another P.E. Seal? I havent run it to this before, usually the person sealing it would do a final review and apply thier seal and signature. Some states...
I was looking at different structural slab design programs like RISA Floor ES, and was wondering what everyone out there uses? Are there any other good options? I've done some research. Currently, the way it's done is by running column strips in enercalc but you cant use that if your house is...
When using chp 30 in ASCE 7 and the components and cladding tables I believe figure 30-1 for calculating pnet are you allowed to use elevation reduction factor Ke, even if it is not in the equation for calculating your wind pressure using pnet?
