Hello.
My company designs support of excavation and often incorporates steel pipe struts/corner braces. These members consist of pipe with pieces of wide flange slotted into the ends of the pipe. The purpose of the wide flange sections is to create a better welded connection to the vertical...
Hello all! This is my first first post.
I have recently been tasked with reviewing some designs for rib and liner plate shafts. I have worked on rib and lagging shafts before but unlike those, the load is transfered to the ribs at discrete locations at the blocking points. The designs I'm...